• Job Description

  Req#: 6152

  Role: Research Scientist – Bioinformatics
  Location: On-site Liège, Belgium
  Contract type: Full-time permanent
  
  As a leading innovator of women’s health, we at Hologic are empowering people to live healthier lives everywhere, every day.

  Diagenode is an international biotech company specialized in epigenetics that provides solutions and services for life science research and biopharma industry. Founded in 2003, the Group is headquartered in Liege (Belgium), with a subsidiary in Denville, NJ (USA). As a leader in the field of epigenetics, Diagenode provides full solutions for chromatin immunoprecipitation, DNA methylation and non-coding RNA research. Our goal is to make epigenetics research accessible and to ensure consistent data in every experiment.

  We currently have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, team-oriented Scientist in Bioinformatics/Data Science to join our team and contribute to the expansion of Diagenode's expertise in biomarker-based predictive models.

  Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

  • Work in a dynamic multidisciplinary team carrying out Epigenetics-related analyses from Next-Generation Sequencing data.
  • Manage projects and coordinate project progress with other departments.
  • Interact directly with customers and lend scientific expertise in order to understand and assess customer needs, communicate progress, explain significance of results and troubleshoot technical issues.
  • Generate professional technical reports for delivery in a timely manner to meet deadlines.
  • Contribute to the set up and improvement of bioinformatics and data analysis pipelines.
  • Understand the IT infrastructure and participate in its constant improvement.
  • Provide input on possibilities to improve customer’s experience and overall efficiency of processes in order to optimize the Bioinformatics team’s performance (e.g. automation of pipelines).

  What you’ll bring to the role:

  • Bioinformatician/Data Scientist with at least 2-3 years of practical experience (PhD or industry) in the development of algorithms and analytical tools to interrogate biological data
  • Experience in bioinformatics programming and statistics environments, including Linux scripting (e.g. Bash) R, RStudio and job queueing systems is a plus
  • Experience with NGS data analysis
  • Background in machine learning is a plus
  • Fluent written and spoken English language, any additional languages are a plus
  • Enjoys working on multiple projects in parallel in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent communication skills: customers, colleagues and reports

  So why join Hologic?

  We are committed to making Hologic the company where top talent comes to grow. For you to succeed, we want to enable you with the tools and knowledge required and so we provide comprehensive training when you join as well as continued development and training throughout your career.

  We offer a competitive salary and annual bonus plan, one of our talent partners can discuss this in more detail with you.

  If you have the right skills and profile and want to join our team, apply today. We can’t wait to hear from you!

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• About the company

  Hologic is a global champion of women’s health, we integrate The Science of Sure into everything we do to help improve and save lives through early detection and proactive treatment.

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