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Job Description

Animal Health IT Advanced Analytics team is looking for a computational biologist with data science insight to join our team. Our team delivers solutions in protein data science, impacting several AH business areas such as R&D, manufacturing, and diagnostics. This role requires a combination structural biology, bioinformatics, immunology, and cloud engineering. In addition to this, your data science work will have the potential of having tangible impact on real world problems.

Responsibilities

• Executes data pipelines to deliver engineered proteins for experimental validation

• Identifies, evaluates and benchmarks available protein engineering tools from the published literature

• Implements and develops documented and reusable cloud data pipelines

• Participates in choosing right tools and right infrastructure for data science projects

• Accesses, cleans, prepares data, ensuring it can be reused as needed

• Provides precise and timely communication (both verbal and written) and collaboration with diverse stakeholders

• Communicates intensively with other platform/competencies to comprehend new trends and methodologies being implemented/considered within the company ecosystem

• Understanding the business context of the decisions to be supported

• Building and maintaining of knowledge on the data sources, the data quality and metadata

Requirements

• MSc Degree in Computer Science, Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Mathematics, Statistics, or other related field

• Experience with python/R, Databricks/HPC, APIs, and readiness to learn new software engineering skills

• Hands on experience with computational biology tools and other life science topics

• Understanding and knowledge of biological databases such as InterPro, UniProt etc.

• Pasion for science and good quality code

• Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to present to diverse audiences

• Experience with version controls systems such as git and other collaboration tools

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a globally dispersed team

• Experience with design of innovative experiments, specifically to idea generation, idea incubation and/or experimentation, identifying tangible and measurable criteria

Our Offer

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern

• Pension and health insurance contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral program

• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card

• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and Mall.cz discount programs

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone

• Parking in the garage for drivers or showers for bikers

• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

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Hazardous Material(s):

Required Skills:

Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics, Business Intelligence (BI), Cloud Engineering, Collaborative Communications, Communication, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Data Applications, Database Design, Databricks Platform, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Data Pipelines, Data Science, Data Visualization, Engineering Software, HPC, Innovation, Life Science, Machine Learning, Molecular Biology, Protein Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Software Development {+ 3 more}

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

08/16/2025

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Requisition ID:R361369