Junior Scientific Computing & Desktop Support, Sydney

Employer: Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

Closing date: Until position is filled

Brief position description: The role

This is a unique entry level role featuring 50% scientific software development and 50% desktop support.

This is a newly created role with the potential to evolve over time. We are looking to provide a new service to our scientists, this will involve talking to them, looking at what they do and writing software to solve their problems and automate repetitive tasks such as reviewing biomedical images.

Duties and responsibilities include:

Scientific Computing:

Speak to scientists and translate their problems into software requirements and provide solutions
Create software to analyse images, video and data from a range of scientific equipment
Create software to automate scientific tasks
Desktop Support:

Providing technical support, both in person or over the phone
Work with Microsoft Windows 7/10, Apple OSX, Microsoft Office 2010/365, Windows Server 2008/2012, Microsoft Exchange 2010
Installing and configuring computer hardware, software, systems, networks, printers and scanners
Application & Network troubleshooting
Setting up accounts for new users
About you

You will be a recent graduate with a talent for helping others solve and translate their problems into software requirements. Along with this you will have a strong passion to offer creative solutions to meet other’s needs.

Above all, you will have a passion for helping others and working in an environment alongside the most exciting and cutting-edge cardiovascular researchers in Australia.

We would like to meet you if you have:

University Degree in IT or Engineering
Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as python, R, Java or C++
A technical, logical thought process
Problem-solving skills
Creativity
Excellent customer service skills
What we offer:

Salary packaging
State of the art facilities
Collaborative team environment
Stimulating work setting focussed on cutting edge medical research
We strive to ensure our staff and students enjoy a great working environment. We value and are committed to providing a working environment that embraces diversity and gender equity and promotes flexible working arrangements for staff to balance working requirements and personal needs.

To apply please send your cover letter, CV and details of three referees to recruitment@victorchang.edu.au or click on Apply Now.

Applications will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.

Job website: http://www.victorchang.edu.au/careers/jobs-available

Contact name: Michaela James

Contact email: recruitment@victorchang.edu.au

Bioinformatics Cloud Engineer

Employer: Microba

Closing date: Until filled

Brief position description: Microba is a new biotech company based in Brisbane providing the world's most accurate gut microbiome testing service direct to the public. We are a diverse skill set team of scientists, commercialisation experts, health practitioners, software developers, marketers and legal experts with a common goal to improve lives through a deeper understanding of the gut microbiome.

Microba is seeking a motivated Cloud Engineer to join the dynamic and hard-working bioinformatics and development teams. We transform trillions of raw DNA sequences into information representing communities of microorganisms living within people. The problems we tackle are challenging, fascinating, and at the forefront of science and IT technology, all within a commercial environment. As a rapidly expanding company, this is a greenfield role, and there is excellent scope for stamping your mark on our platform. 

We are seeking a highly motivated, systematic individual with a positive approach to challenges. You will provide robust and skilled Linux VM and file server system administration, and also take the lead within the group to optimise our cloud infrastructure, data pipelines and disaster recovery systems. You will also have an interest in development, and ideally, an interest in bioinformatics. You are passionate about learning new technologies, then implementing and maintaining these within our environment.

This position offers competitive remuneration and an opportunity to participate in the Employee Share Option Plan. 

Essential skills and experience:

- Expert Linux system administration (Ubuntu), file servers (NFS, Samba), networking, troubleshooting issues.
- Expert cloud optimisation (scale sets, VM load balancing, queuing systems eg RabbitMQ etc)
- Scripting skills (bash, python)
- Highly capable communicator and team player. Understands complex tasks and implements solutions fit for purpose.

Desirable skills and experience:

- Experience with bioinformatic tool sets, especially for whole genome sequencing.
- Dev ops experience with one or more cloud platforms (ideally Microsoft Azure and AWS), as well as automation tools eg. Chef, Puppet etc
- Experience with Docker.
- Further programming experience (eg java, C, web), with a desire to assist to development as time permits
- Efficiency/cost management cloud expertise

Job website: http://www.microba.com

Contact name: David Wood

Contact email: david.wood@microba.com

Senior Scientific Officer, Sydney

Employer: UTS

Closing date: 14 June 2018

Brief position description: A degree in a relevant area such as computing or engineering
Advanced knowledge in the use/application of Python, Arduino, and at least one other programming (eg C, C++, JavaScript, R, Matlab, Perl, or Java) 
Knowledge of software development principles and tools, including demonstrated facility with test frameworks, continuous integration, version control as well as code-level and user documentation.
Capacity to develop knowledge and understanding of high level data management, storage and archiving requirements for C3 that will conform with UTS and external repository protocols. 
Some knowledge of database and web interfaces (such as MySQL, WAMP server, PHP, Apache.NET, THREDDS and OpenDAP).
Knowledge of and experience with Arduino (or similar) microcontrollers and digital communication (e.g. I2C, CAN, SPI, RS-232, or ModBus)
Capacity to develop knowledge of data integration methods, satellite data products and processing tools, visualisation tools and data mining concepts.
Experience designing software/scripts to meet specifications provided by the eventual users
Experience with embedded system programming to read sensor data
Experience with High Performance Computing in a UNIX/Linux environment and managing the data generated

Job website: https://recruitment.uts.edu.au/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?OAFunc=IRC_VIS_VAC_DISPLAY&p_svid=108386&p_spid=3258664

Contact name: Catriona Reid

Contact email: Catriona.reid@uts.edu.au

Post-doctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics and Systems Immunology, Sydney

Employer: UNSW Sydney

Closing date: 15/07/2018

Brief position description: This is an exciting opportunity for junior/midcareer postdocs that wish to pursue an academics career in interdisciplinary environment and work on single cell multi-omics in immunology and virology. We are seeking talented researchers with a background in quantitative disciplines to join an interdisciplinary and vibrant research group at Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.

Job website: http://external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/492618/postdoctoral-researcher

Contact name: Fabio Luciani

Research assistant in Bioinformatics, Sydney

Employer: UNSW Sydney

Closing date: 30/05/2018

Brief position description: The primary purpose of the Bioinformatician position is to assist in analysing next generation sequencing data via established computational pipelines, as part of the research program in the Viral Immunology Systems Program. These pipelines include viral sequencing analysis and single cell RNAseq

Job website:http://external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/492632/research-assistant-dry-lab

Contact name: Fabio Luciani

Contact email: luciani@unsw.edu.au

 

Software Developer

Employer: CSL Limited

Closing date: 20 May 2018

Brief position description: We are looking for a Scientific Software Developer within CSL Research. This position offers a unique opportunity to lead, promote, and shape scientific software development. You will work closely with scientists to implement software workflows and pipelines in order to process and organize large-scale datasets that are generated in-house and/or collected from public databases. Liaise with the IT organisation to administer the expansion of the newly established HPC platform and implement software applications that lead to the standardization of data processing, data formats and visualization activities across Research globally.

Job website: https://www.seek.com.au/job/36038812

Senior Research Statistician

Employer: CSL Limited

Closing date: 21 May 2018

Brief position description: In this role you will provide statistical input towards experimental designs, statistical analyses, interpretation and reporting of research studies, in order to ensure efficient use of resources as well as robust conclusions and deliveries following regulatory requirements and guidelines. Oversee statistical design and analysis routines in experiments that translate development strategies into plans to support product development objectives, including process control and validation strategies. Provide statistical advice for contacts with regulatory agencies for pre-clinical R&D related issues, eg in animal ethics applications. Contribute statistical input for regulatory filings for product approvals, for on-market support, and for scientific publications. Coordinate with other data analysis/computational experts (Data managers, Bioinformatics, PK/PD/Pharmacometrics etc.) both in house and externally, to ensure that CSL R&D is current and compliant in statistical methods. Provide statistical oversight for Research and Product Development Departments, and lead our small team of statisticians and data managers. Deliver statistics training of staff in R&D, and keep raising and maintaining basic competence around the scientific data analysis thought process as well as in the use of standard platforms (eg Prism, R and our in-house Electronic Lab Notebook).

Job website: https://www.seek.com.au/job/36115838

PhD position in bioinformatics

Employer: University of Technology Sydney

Closing date: Open until filled

Brief position description: Project description:
We are looking for a talented PhD student to develop methods for real-time analysis of bacterial and viral outbreaks. The project will be part of a larger effort with international collaborators in the UK and USA that aims to develop methods that efficiently and accurately analyse data streams being generated by laboratories around the world. The project will provide the student experience in statistical modeling, programming, bioinformatics, and evolutionary biology.

Requirements:
Undergraduate or postgraduate degree in bioinformatics, computer science, statistics, engineering or a related quantitative field.

Knowledge and skills to be developed:
- Bayesian statistics
- Phylogenetics and evolutionary biology
- Software development in R, Python, Java, C or C++
- Production software engineering
- Linux command-line, HPC and cloud computing
- Excellent written and oral communication skills

Project supervisors:
Associate Professor Aaron Darling and Dr. Mathieu Fourment

Research environment:
This role is within the ithree institute in the Faculty of Science, one of the largest faculties at UTS, which is Australia's top ranked young university, with a particular focus on research translation. The ithree institute brings together a team of scientists with diverse skill sets who collectively address key challenges in the understanding and control of infectious diseases in humans and animals.

Commencement date:
Applicants would be expected to commence studies in the Spring 2018 or Autumn 2019 terms (August 2018 or March 2019).

Contact:
Informal enquiries can be sent to aaron.darling@uts.edu.au or mathieu.fourment@uts.edu.au

Job website: http://darlinglab.org

Contact name: Mathieu Fourment

Contact email: mathieu.fourment@uts.edu.au

Bioinformatician - Software Developer (Part Time)

Employer: James Cook University

Closing date: 6 May 2018

Brief position description: The department of molecular and cell biology at James Cook University is seeking to appoint a bioinformatician to work on a human cancer genetics project in collaboration with a clinical genetics group in Brisbane. The appointee will take responsibility for development and implementation of a best practice computational software infrastructure for the analysis of patient sequence information. The initial goal will be to mirror the infrastructure already in operation in Brisbane but it is expected that
the appointee will interact with research teams and clinicians to identify opportunities for expansion and improvement. The goal of the system developed will be to perform variant identification in human sequence data with the output utilized for personalized medicine within the Townsville hospital. The position is funded for 18 months at half time.

To view selection criteria for this position and submit an application please visit https://www.jcu.edu.au/careers-at-jcu/vacancies and look for vacancy number 16347 . Applications are due at Midnight 6 May 2018

Job website: http://www.jcu.edu.au/careers-at-jcu/vacancies

Contact name: Ira Cooke

Contact email: ira.cooke@jcu.edu.au

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Lead

Employer: Pharmalytics

Closing date: 16th May 2018

Brief position description: Are you intrigued by the advances in big data in healthcare? Are you excited by the opportunity to develop a company’s technological backbone from the ground up? If so, we can’t wait to hear from you. Our start-up company needs a Computational /Bioinformatics specialist CTO who can provide technical leadership to develop a novel algorithm which will the first of its kind here in Australia!
If this sounds of interest to you, we would love to hear from you

Job website:

Contact name: Doron Nadler

Contact email: nadlerdoron@gmail.com

Employer: Pharmalytics

Closing date: 16th May 2018

Brief position description: Are you intrigued by the advances in big data in healthcare? Are you excited by the opportunity to develop a company’s technological backbone from the ground up? If so, we can’t wait to hear from you. Our start-up company needs a Computational /Bioinformatics specialist CTO who can provide technical leadership to develop a novel algorithm which will the first of its kind here in Australia!
If this sounds of interest to you, we would love to hear from you

Contact name: Doron Nadler

Contact email: nadlerdoron@gmail.com