Are you ready to dive into the world of transformative therapies and make a significant impact? At EsoBiotec, now part of AstraZeneca, we are setting new benchmarks for biotechnological research. Our collaboration combines AstraZeneca's global influence and scientific innovation with EsoBiotec's unique culture of creativity and breakthroughs in cell-based therapies and immunology. Here, your scientific passion will drive real-world impact as you contribute to life-changing treatments.
We are seeking a Bioinformatician to support a highly wet-lab-focused discovery research team working at the forefront of CAR-T, in vivo lentiviral delivery, and oncology. This role will help accelerate research by enabling robust analysis, interpretation, and integration of complex biological data generated across discovery and platform development activities.
The position is designed for someone who can work effectively at the interface of experimental science and computational biology. The successful candidate will partner closely with bench scientists to understand biological questions, experimental systems, and data-generation challenges, and then translate those into rigorous analytical approaches that improve insight generation, mechanistic understanding, and research decision-making.
Role Summary
As a Bioinformatician, you will work alongside researchers developing next-generation approaches in cell therapy, gene delivery, and oncology discovery. Much of the team's work is rooted in wet-lab experimentation, including cellular profiling, functional assays, perturbation studies, vector evaluation, and iterative platform optimization. Your role will be to help analyze and interpret complex biological datasets, develop reproducible workflows, and generate insights that strengthen the connection between experimental output and scientific decision-making.
This role centers on the biological and translational challenges associated with engineered cell therapies, viral delivery systems, and the interpretation of high-dimensional datasets in oncology-relevant systems. While experience with molecular profiling data is important, success in the role will come from applying bioinformatics thoughtfully in close partnership with experimental teams rather than from narrow specialization in any single assay type.
Key Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role means helping a wet-lab-heavy research team generate better insight from complex biological data, understand mechanisms more clearly, and use bioinformatics in ways that are scientifically credible and operationally useful. You will bring value by helping connect molecular and functional readouts to decisions around construct design, delivery strategy, cell phenotype interpretation, and experimental prioritization.
The strongest candidates will be technically capable, biologically curious, and highly collaborative. They will be comfortable operating in an environment where the data may be heterogeneous, the biology may be complex, and the most valuable contributions are often those that are rigorous, interpretable, and closely aligned to experimental reality.
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a hands-on bioinformatician who enjoys working close to the science. They are excited by translational challenges in oncology, cell engineering, and in vivo gene delivery, and they know how to adapt analytical methods to real-world discovery settings rather than idealized datasets. They can listen to scientists, identify tractable opportunities, produce useful analyses, and communicate results in a way that supports better experiments and stronger decisions.
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