Why Pixelgen?

At Pixelgen our mission is to develop groundbreaking bio-analytical tools to revolutionize the world’s understanding of health and disease. As a part of our collaborative start-up team you will contribute with your expertise while making a real impact to the scientific community and beyond.  

Pixelgen is supported by some of the most well recognized investors in deeptech and biotech.

The role

We are looking for a Computational Biologist to be our computational trailblazer. You should be a person whose passion is to implement computational data pipelines that work in a high performance manner and you should have created novel target metrics to develop a product. 

Your proven experience designing novel data structures and algorithms in the past will help Pixelgen at this stage. You have fluency in modeling and simulating data and show a flair for visualization and representing the beauty of your datasets.

Pixelgen Technologies has been selected as a performer in the prestigious delta tissue (ΔTissue) project and this position is part of the R&D team involved in this project. ΔTissue is awarded and funded by the Wellcome Leap initiative: https://wellcomeleap.org/delta-tissue/

In this role, you will be mentored by the CTO and senior colleagues meaning you will get a steep learning progression in your career.

This position requires approx. 40% work presence in Pixelgen’s Stockholm office.  

Responsibilities

• Develop our data processing pipeline and the infrastructure surrounding it

• Lead the productification of our data processing pipeline

• Develop metrics and summary statistics for product development and optimization

• Summarize and track metrics between experimental datasets over time to identify patterns

• Use statistics or machine learning (ML) techniques to draw conclusions from your data

• Champion novel algorithms to empower the technology that serves our customers

• Visualize and summarize results using relevant plots/tables

• Document, communicate and summarize results regularly to advance our product development efforts

Requirements

• Industrial experience and/or a PhD focused on on computational biology or bioinformatics 

• Past experience in product development

• Expertise in python for data analysis

• Expertise with NGS data 

• Familiarity working in command-line-interface in Unix flavors

• Broad statistical and ML knowledge (e.g. distributions, hypothesis testing, dimensionality reduction, neural networks, etc.)  applied to NGS, single-cell and spatial data analysis

• Expertise analyzing different datasets of spatial transcriptomics technologies

• Working with notebooks (e.g. Jupyter) and reporting tools

• Experience with creation of dashboards for data analysis

• Expertise in developing analysis pipelines with DSL environments

• Experience with cloud environments

• Familiarity with git repositories and good practices in developing code in teams

• Committed code to several open source projects

• Analytical mindset with quantitative thinking in abstract problems

• Collaborative spirit with excellent communication skills

• High self-motivation: take initiatives, have the ability to run multiple parallel activities and at the same time have the ability to keep focus to reach project goals according to set timelines

Preferred requirements

• Experience in image processing analysis

• Experience with graph and network analysis

About Pixelgen

At Pixelgen Technologies we develop novel analytical methods and products capable of seeing the inner workings of life. These products help researchers and drug developers to gain new insights in biomedicine and ultimately improve health. Right now Pixelgen is in stealth mode, but we cannot wait to tell the world about our groundbreaking science when the time is right. Our offices and labs are located at the Solna Karolinska Institutet Campus within the growing Life Science cluster at Hagastaden in Stockholm, Sweden. Do you want to work at a company that offers a groundbreaking technology that will bring biological understanding to the next level? Come join our dynamic team!

Pixelgen does not accept unsolicited applicants submitted by third-party recruiters or agencies. Any resume or application submitted to Pixelgen without a vendor agreement in place will be considered unsolicited and property of Pixelgen, and Pixelgen will not pay a placement fee.