Bachelor/Master/Intern (m/w/d) - Bioinformatics & Data Science

Join our bioinformatics team in Munich

We are currently seeking to fill this exciting, versatile and diverse role in a professional, cooperative and appreciative environment, where you can actively help shaping the success of the company. We offer a flat organization, a monthly stipend, flexible working hours, mobile working, and last but by no means least a highly transparent and dynamic company culture. Team Thunder (bioinformatics/biostatistics) is a self-organised scrum team within Leukocare that conducts innovative research on biopharmaceutical formulation development. As a research student in our team, you will extend our data mining to new sources, integrate the data into machine-learning pipelines, and test hypotheses relevant to scientists in the field of formulation development.

• establish and extend python software for mining of data from public sources
• follow procedures for writing maintainable code, based on pair-programming, code reviews, testing, and refactoring
• conduct data analysis using machine-learning or classical statistics
• read and analyse relevant scientific article
• create and test hypotheses based on expected or observed patterns in the data

• enrolled at a German university (Universität or Hochschule) as a student of biology, chemistry, bioinformatics or a related field
• good programming skills, preferably in python
• excellent communication skills in English and/or German
• enthusiasm for working in a dynamic, interdisciplinary environment involving rapid change and continuous learnin
• experience working in protein biochemistry, protein sequence analysis, or with viruses is a plus
• experience in the pharmaceutical industry or a related medical field is a plus