Bioinformatician | Bioinformatiker (m/w/d)

Universitätsklinikum Würzburg

Würzburg, Bayern, Deutschland
Published Dec 9, 2025
Full-time
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Job Summary

The Uniklinikum Würzburg is seeking a Bioinformatician to join the Clinical Genetics and Genomic Medicine department. This highly impactful role involves developing, validating, and operating cutting-edge bioinformatics pipelines for high-throughput sequencing data (WES, WGS, Long-Read, Transcriptome, Epigenome) with direct clinical consequences on therapy and risk assessment. The day-to-day work includes automated variant annotation and classification following ACMG/AMP and ClinGen guidelines, implementing central variant databases, and establishing AI/Deep Learning approaches for phenotype-driven genome diagnostics. The ideal candidate must possess a scientific university degree in Bioinformatics or a related field, excellent programming skills in Python and/or R, and experience with clinical NGS data analysis and standard bioinformatics tools like Nextflow or Snakemake. This position offers flexibility through flextime, continuous professional development, modern technology, and the opportunity to contribute to high-impact publications and interdisciplinary case conferences.

Required Skills

Education

Completed scientific university degree (Master's, Diploma, or PhD) in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Human Genetics, Molecular Medicine, or a comparable field. PhD with relevant publication list (Desirable).

Experience

  • Several years of proven experience in the analysis of clinical Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data (WES/WGS)
  • Practical experience with standard bioinformatics tools and workflow systems
  • Experience in regulated clinical diagnostics (GenDG, ISO 15189 - Desirable)
  • Experience with database design and operation (Desirable)
  • Experience with backend/API development (Desirable)

Languages

German (Fluent)English (Fluent)

Additional

  • Accreditation according to ISO 15189 and GenDG is required for the institute's operations. Must be available to start by January 1, 2026. Involvement in supervising doctoral and master's theses. Contribution to publishing in high-ranking journals and acquisition of third-party funding.