Software Engineer - Jena, Deutschland - Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology

Beschreibung

The Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI) investigates the pathobiology of human-pathogenic fungi and identifies targets for the development of novel natural product-based antibiotics.

The research group Microbiome Dynamics invites talented and highly gifted candidates to apply as

Software Engineer (m/f/div)

The research group Microbiome Dynamics (MDB) is seeking a highly skilled software engineer with a keen eye and interest in solving exciting life science problems.

Given the high demand for big data analysis applications in the life sciences, our demand for hardware and software solutions towards efficient, high-performance computation increases constantly.

On top of that, we reach out to the community whenever possible and encapsulate our services into pipelines and web applications.

Both our hardware and software require constant monitoring and maintenance.

Your tasks In collaboration with our team, the tasks to be addressed by the software engineer comprise
Web app development and maintenance
Curation of pipelines dedicated to efficient, high-throughput data preprocessing and analysis
Distributed computing / software scaling towards grid engines
Proficiency in R and/or Python for pipeline and web application development, as well as big data analysis
Interest in data sciences in the life sciences, including gene expression and microbiome data analysis, is a plus
The Software Engineer will be hosted in the research group Microbiome Dynamics (MBD) of Prof. Gianni Panagiotou of the Leibniz-HKI in an international, dynamic team with access to state-of-the-art computational resources

Remuneration will be according to the TV-L (Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Federal States, unrestricted, full-time) at the salary level E 10.

It aims to increase the proportion of underrepresented groups in case of equal suitability.

All qualified persons, regardless of color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law will receive consideration for employment.

Complete applications in English should include a cover letter, a CV containing a complete list of publications, a brief statement of research experiences, and the addresses of two possible referees and should be submitted via the Leibniz-HKI online application system.