Employer : Centre for Population Genomics (MCRI/Garvan)
Closing date: 24/04/2025
Brief position description:
The CPG Rare Disease Program is seeking a bioinformatician to join our growing team and contribute to developing tools, pipelines and processes for scalable analysis of genomic data from undiagnosed families affected by rare genetic disorders. You will join a highly collaborative and integrated team of clinical analysts, computational biologists, bioinformaticians and software engineers who together support Australia's largest rare disease research platform.
The primary focus of this role will be improving and extending the team's capability to interrogate WGS, long read, RNA-seq and other genomic data sets from rare disease patients and their family members, to improve the diagnosis of severe genetic diseases. The duties of this role will include a combination of iterative refinement of existing analysis pipelines, and the development of novel analysis tools and pipelines.
While this position will involve cutting-edge genomic science, the measures of success and promotion will be on developing and deploying complex analysis methods at scale, and not on traditional academic metrics such as leading publications. This role is best suited to individuals with a strong track record of scientific output who are interested in continuing to contribute to impactful science but not in the traditional academic career track.
The CPG is geographically distributed and operates under a fully-remote model. However, office space is available at both the Garvan Institute in Sydney and the MCRI in Melbourne. In-person events are held multiple times per year to ensure regular opportunities for in-person interaction.
Contact name: Matthew Welland
Contact email: matthew.welland@populationgenomics.org.au