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Bioinformatics Engineer (Bioinformatics Platform)

London

Bioinformatics Engineer (Bioinformatics Platform), London or Lausanne

We are looking for data engineers with various levels of experience - Mid through to Senior, Principal, Staff or equivalent levels.

We are here to advance human health, by reimagining drug discovery with the power and pace of artificial intelligence.

The future is coming. A future enabled and enriched by the incredible power of machine learning. A future in which diseases are curtailed or cured by better and faster drug discovery. 

Our values exist in service of that future. We think they’ll help us bring it closer, too. 

Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring and collaborative culture.

The world we want tomorrow is the one we’re building today. It starts with the culture at this company. It starts with you. 

About Iso

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was founded in 2021 and is led by Sir Demis Hassabis. Our aim is to usher in a new era of biomedical breakthroughs and find cures for some of humanity’s devastating diseases.

Our foundations are built on the success of Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold, but we didn’t stop there! We are continuing to develop and implement state-of-the-art technologies as we move towards our goal of dramatically accelerating and improving the process of designing and bringing new medicines to patients.

We have built a world-leading drug design engine comprising foundational AI models that are capable of working across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities. The company is continually innovating on model architecture and developing cutting-edge capabilities to advance rational drug design.

Your impact 

This is an exciting opportunity for you to work on a greenfield ML-based software platform that will transform the biopharmaceutical world as we know it.  

Working in a highly creative, iterative environment, you will be partnering with leading engineers, scientists and ML researchers to build the critical platform driving that transformation. This is a newly created role and you will need to use your previous experience and show initiative in order to fully carve out your contribution.

What you will do

 

  • Develop and operate a bioinformatics platform for the ingestion, harmonisation, and curation of biological reference data, including external and internal datasets.
  • Develop and curate robust data models, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, and data integration strategies to ensure data consistency, quality, and interoperability.
  • Develop and maintain versioned release processes for curated biological data, ensuring traceability and reproducibility of analyses.
  • Develop metrics and tools to monitor biological data quality and completeness.
  • Develop efficient data stores for machine learning models and other data-driven products.
  • Develop and execute processes for effective and secure data handling, including interoperation with TREs and other controlled environments.
  • Develop and operate pipelines for complex and large biological dataset ingestion, harmonisation and curation.
  • Contribute to the wider development of the data and computational platform.
  • Collaborate with computational biology and chemistry groups, providing guidance and support for their initiatives.
  • Provide documentation, guidance, and training on data resources, data curation processes, and ontologies to the wider organization.

 

Skills and qualifications

Essential

  • Extensive programming experience writing production code using mainstream programming languages such as Python or C++.
  • Strong experience with database technologies (SQL and NoSQL) and data modeling.
  • Experience working with biological databases (e.g., NCBI, UniProt, Ensembl).
  • Knowledge of biological ontologies (e.g., GO, KEGG, Reactome) and controlled vocabularies.
  • Experience with bioinformatics large-scale data analysis and quality control.
  • Experience building and maintaining bioinformatics pipelines.
  • MSc degree in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

  • Strong experience building, deploying and maintaining production systems on GCP.
  • Experience with data governance principles and practices.
  • Experience with statistical analysis and data visualization.
  • Experience with modern ML systems, frameworks, and data lifecycle
  • PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.


Culture and values

We are guided by our shared values. It's not about finding people who think and act in the same way. These values help to guide our work and will continue to strengthen it. 

Thoughtful
Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity, creativity and care. It is about good people doing good, rigorous and future-making science every single day.

Brave
Brave at Iso is about fearlessness, but it’s also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.

Determined
Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. It’s a confidence in our hypothesis, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease won’t wait, so neither should we.

Together
Together at Iso is about connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. It’s knowing that transformation is a group project, and remembering that what we’re doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.


Creating an inclusive company

We believe that to be successful we need our teams to reflect and represent the populations we are striving to serve. We’re working to build a supportive and inclusive environment where collaboration is encouraged, learning is shared and every employee feels like they truly belong. We value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives, and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. 

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.


Hybrid working

It’s hugely important for us to share knowledge and build strong relationships with each other, and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. This is why we follow a hybrid model, and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tuesday, Wednesday, and one other day depending on which team you’re in).  As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to building an equal and inclusive team. If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach, we’d be happy to talk through these if you’re selected for an initial screening call.

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