Bioinformatics Scientist

Bioinformatics Scientist 

Location: Liège, Belgium

As a leading innovator of women’s health, we at Hologic are empowering people to live healthier lives everywhere, every day.

Hologic Diagenode is an international biotech company specialized in epigenetics that provides solutions and services for life science research and biopharma industry. As a leader in the field of epigenetics, Hologic 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 Hologic Diagenode's expertise in biomarker-based predictive models.

What to Expect:

• 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 we expect: 

• Bioinformatician/Data Scientist with a strong level 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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