The Associate Research Scientist will coordinate and execute Phagos’ Nextflow-based bioinformatic pipelines and handle team bioinformatics requests. Key duties involve pipeline execution, genomic comparisons, protein annotations, and data management. This fast-paced role offers learning opportunities, team contribution, and direct impact on lab and field applications.

Core Responsibilities:

• Pipeline and Data Management: Run Nextflow bioinformatics pipelines for bacterial/phage samples. Convert pipeline outputs into clear, structured reports for the wet lab team.

• Workflow Optimization and Quality Assurance: Provide feedback to improve computational workflows, ensuring robust data interpretation.

• Data Analysis & Benchmarking: Perform statistical analyses and comparative benchmarking to help improve laboratory SOPs and/or bioinformatics pipelines when relevant.

• Documentation and Transparency: Create SOPs for routine pipelines and analysis methods to aid skill development and reporting clarity.

• Collaboration and Support: Work closely with wet lab scientists to align computational strategies with experiments. Directly support the Associate Research Scientist in Bioinformatics by handling urgent tasks not yet automated.

Core Technical Skills:

• Bioinformatic Workflow Manager: Nextflow (Must-have).

• Languages: Python, R (Shiny, Markdown), Bash.

• Version control: Git (Working knowledge).

Soft Skills

• Self motivated,  ability to work independently, and manage objectives, expectations, and deliverables

• Fluency in English (written and spoken)

Education & Experience

• Master’s degree in Bioinformatics or Computational Biology, or a related field.

• Professional or academic experience (internships, research projects) specifically focused on Bioinformatics.

  Desirable Experience:

  • Comfort running Bioinformatic pipelines on AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or SLURM/HPC schedulers.

  • Experience with NGS Genome Assembly and Annotation

  • Experience working with containerized environments (Docker, Singularity) for reproducible bioinformatics workflows.

At Phagos we believe the recruitment process begins from the application. This is why we invite you to take your time and thoughtfully complete our application form.

Once we select your profile, we are committed to make sure you have a positive and seamless experience.

Step #1 Screening call with Nafissatou, our Associate Research Scientist

Step #2 Interview with Andrew, our Head of Bioinformatics

Step #3 Technical test, with 1 or 2 of our Bioinformatic team members

Step #4 Chat with our co-founders

Team fit : Last but not least, you will meet 5 members of Phagos, randomly picked for a Team fit discussion in English. When possible, this meeting will be held in our office in Suresnes.