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You will be updated with latest job alerts via emailVIB is a worldclass life sciences research institute in Flanders Belgium with more than 1800 scientists across 5 universities. VIB has a long and successful history of translating scientific breakthroughs into impactful societal innovations and new innovative biotech companies.
The current position is within the VIB Discovery Sciences (VIB DS) unit a group of around 20 translational research scientists and technicians with a strong industry background. VIB DS focuses on the validation and translation of VIBs scientific breakthroughs into drug biomarker and diagnostic discovery projects to support new ventures and licensing opportunities as part of the VIB Innovation & Business team. This position is to provide development and operation (DevOps) support to our VIBDS unit with the main focus on our ComputerAided Drug Discovery (CADD) platform. The successful candidate will work with a highly multidisciplinary team at VIB DS in close collaboration with a team of IT experts at VIB Data Core and explore synergies across multiple VIB datadriven labs. He/she will be exposed to and learn from experts in related fields such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) High Performance Computing and CADD contributing to the translation of novel scientific discoveries into earlystage small molecule drug candidates and spinoff companies.
VIB DS is looking for a creative energetic and selfmotivated Informatician/DevOps to strengthen our team. The successful candidate will work in a small team of people and will play a key role in the expansion of our CADD platform through implementation of automated workflows using tools like Python programming Nextflow and Dask. This is an exciting opportunity for a recent graduate who is passionate about programming and IT support applied to computational drug discovery and who wants to make a meaningful contribution to cuttingedge projects in the development of novel therapeutics for diseases with high unmet medical needs. The candidate will also work directly with VIBs Data Core facility and benefit from VIBs large and diverse ecosystem of research centers laboratories core facilities including the Switch lab VIB.AI and VIB Technologies.
Interested candidates should submit their resume a cover letter highlighting their relevant experience and motivation for applying and any relevant code samples or projects online through the VIB application tool.
For inquiries about the position please contact .
Application Deadline: June 21 2024
Note: Candidates selected based on their resume and cover letter will be invited for an interview (remote or on site). The most promising candidates might be asked for a second interview.
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