Exciting Career Opportunity: BioImaging Bioinformatician at EMBL-EBI

📋 Job Overview

  • Job Title: BioImaging Bioinformatician
  • Job Requisition ID: JR4207
  • Location: Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
  • Work Type: Full-time, Hybrid
  • Contract Length: 18-month fixed-term (Grant-funded)

💡 About the Role & Responsibilities

You will support operational and data management development activities for the BioImage Archive and EMPIAR. A key focus will be leveraging AI approaches to optimize data processing and curation.

  • Data Curation & Pipelines: Support global data deposition, offer expert guidance to researchers, and build automated pipelines for complex scientific submissions.
  • Community Standards: Collaborate on international data standards and format developments (like OME-Zarr), and programmatically implement metadata schema languages.
  • Developer Liaison: Work with internal core software teams to prioritize user needs and test newly deployed archive features.
  • Documentation: Create high-quality technical documentation and training materials to guide global platform users.

🎓 Educational Qualifications

  • Minimum Requirement: A first degree (BSc) in Biology, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, or a closely related discipline, along with a relevant higher degree (MSc).
  • Preferred: A PhD or equivalent professional work experience in a related scientific domain.

🛠️ Required Skills & Experience

  • Imaging Modalities: Strong understanding of data collection, handling, and visualization for light or electron microscopy.
  • Programming & Scripts: Proven experience scripting data transformation pipelines using Python, Julia, or similar languages.
  • Data Formats: Hands-on experience with JSON exchange formats and schema validation languages like LinkML.
  • Personal Attributes: Strong independent and team-based problem-solving skills, curiosity for bioimaging science, and ability to meet tight deadlines.

Desirable Extras (Nice to Have):

  • Experience with cross-modality data like spatial transcriptomics or proteomics.
  • Background in bioimage analysis tools and semantic web/ontology technologies.

💰 Salary & Compensation

  • Base Salary: Grade 5 — Starting at £3,452.05 per month net (after tax). (Note: This excludes generous pension and insurance contributions).
  • Core Benefits: 30 days of annual leave, private medical/dental insurance for you and your family, and an annual salary review.
  • Family Support: On-site campus nursery, 10 days of child sick leave, parental leave, and monthly family/child allowances.
  • Campus Perks: Free commuter shuttle buses, subsidised gym and cafeteria, casual dress code, and active social/sports clubs.
  • International Support: Visa exemptions for international recruits, relocation packages, and education grants for private schooling.

📅 Closing Date

  • Deadline: Wednesday, 2nd September
  • Please note: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Early submission is highly encouraged.

📝 How to Apply

If you are ready to apply your talent to accelerate global science, follow these steps:

  1. Prepare an up-to-date CV and a Cover Letter outlining your transferable skills, experience, and motivation.
  2. Head to the official EMBL-EBI recruitment portal.
  3. Search for Job Requisition ID JR4207 to submit your documents directly through their portal.
  4. https://embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hinxton-Cambridgeshire/BioImaging-Bioinformatician_JR4207-1

(Note: EMBL is a proud signatory of DORA and welcomes applications from all diverse backgrounds, genders, and nationalities).

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