Are you looking for a position where your work makes life-changing, real-world impact?

We are now looking for 1-2 software developers / sys admins who can help us bring genomics-based technologies to routine clinical use in Sweden.

The Clinical Genomics unit is a national research infrastructure at SciLifeLab in Stockholm. Together with caregivers in Sweden, we aim to make advanced clinical tests based on massively parallel DNA sequencing an integrated part of the routine diagnostics in the healthcare sector. Our mission is to ensure that the diagnostics offered in Sweden is at the international forefront. Clinical Genomics today consists of 12 employees and works in close collaboration with other researchers at SciLifeLab and with the healthcare system. We have a technical state-of-the-art capability to carry out NGS, including MiSeq, HiSeq 2500 and HiSeq X instrumentation and an automated library preparation capability.

We are now looking for talented, highly motivated bioinformaticians to join the team.

Those appointed will be expected to work with clinicians, geneticists, software developers, programmers and molecular biologists.

We can offer a creative environment where the mission is to improve the patient management by moving towards personalised medicine, exciting work tasks, and a team spirit aiding us to more quickly achieve our common goals. On the technical level our work is highly competitive at the international level; we actively work to test the boundaries and develop our bioinformatic tools and services further.

You are a careful and detail oriented person, not afraid of taking responsibility, and you appreciate working with the latest technology in a rapidly developing field. You have a strong desire to further develop the service offerings and solve problems where and when they arise.

Primary duties

• Automation and surveillance of data transfers and analysis pipelines
• Development and maintenance of internal information databases
• Development and maintenance of solutions for visualizations of processes and results
• Development of tools supporting clinical decision making

General qualifications (software developers and sys admins)

• Excellent programming skills in foremost Python
• Git and version control
• Solid UNIX competency, Bash
• Familiar with databases, both SQL and alternatives
• Fluency in English
• Personal qualifications that enhance collaboration internally and externally / team spirit, excellent communication skills

Additional meriting qualifications for software development position

• Familiar with software testing, meriting if continuous integration, Travis CI
• Web development, HTML5 including JS, REST APIs. Meriting if Bootstrap, Flask experience
• Agile development, pair programming
• Open source development experience

 Additional meriting qualifications for sys admin position

• Cluster management, highly meriting if SLURM
• Hardware acquisition
• Automation of data transfers and analysis pipelines
• Ansible provisioning
• Interest in Docker/container technologies
• Functional languages, low level languages, Java

Application deadline is Oct 30, 2015. Please apply early; interviews will be held throughout the application period.

The positions are full time. A probationary period of 6 months will be applied.

The application is to be submitted through the MyNetwork system. In your application letter, please also clearly explain your motivation for applying for one of the positions.

The position will formally be at the Department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell biology at KI. All work is carried out at SciLifeLab.

Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) is a national center for large-scale life science research. Our aim is to enable researchers in Sweden to decipher molecular mechanisms relating to health and environment.