Bioinformatics Scientist

**General information**:
**Reference **:2024-156

**Information about Molecular Partners AG**:
**Position description**:
**Position title**:
Bioinformatics Scientist - Oncology (100%)

**Job description**:
We seek an experienced computational biologist/data scientist that will play a key scientific role in advancing the MP pipeline by leveraging innovative computational analyses and large scale genomic datasets to empower data-driven decisions in collaboration with research, translational and clinical colleagues.

This challenging and diverse position will include the following tasks and responsibilities:

- Collaborate with laboratory and in vivo scientists to design, analyze, and interpret experiments to validate targets, understand compound mechanism of action, and identify biomarkers for patient selection and target engagement;
- Design and execute a strategy for the generation of omics data from clinical studies, including vendor outreach;
- Support clinical development teams with data analysis and interpretation during early clinical trials;
- Gather, curate and process publicly available datasets;
- Develop and implement analysis pipelines for omics data analysis and biomarker identification;
- Stay at the forefront of the field by benchmarking and implementing new omics analysis and AI methods.

**Requirements**:
For this position, we are looking for a highly motivated individual bringing along:

- Ph.D. in computational, statistical, biology, physics, bioinformatics, or a related field with emphasis on biological data analysis;
- 3+ years of experience in immune oncology genomics data analysis;
- Good understanding of cancer biology and immunology;
- Experience with standard methods for bioinformatic data analysis and reference datasets (oncology) for bulk, single cell and spatial gene expression, mutations, and related platforms;
- Proficiency in R or Python;
- Good knowledge of statistics and basic knowledge of machine learning algorithms;
- Experience with primary processing pipelines and with cloud computing platforms would be an advantage;
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English;
- Collaborative and self-directed personality
- Highly collaborative and team-oriented mindset with curiosity to learn new tasks and drive innovation.

This position summary is not intended to be all inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

**Our offer**:

**Position location**:
**Job location**:
Switzerland, Zürich, Schlieren

**Preferred head hunter clause**:
Molecular Partners AG, Wagistrasse 14, CH-8952 Zurich-Schlieren, Switzerland.