IRB Barcelona seeks a Research Assistant for the Molecular Modeling and Bioinformatics group.
An enthusiastic programmer to join our structural bioinformatics team in the Molecular Modeling and Bioinformatics group (Structural Bioinformatics Program), under the framework of the “iDATA-MP”, co-funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), una manera de hacer Europa, in the call: Infraestructura de Medicina de precisión asociada a la ciencia y tecnología (IMPaCT). Referencia: IMP/00019

DUTIES
- We are looking for a candidate to work on research software development, designing, developing and maintaining biomolecular simulation tools and workflows to make them available to the scientific community.
- Our informatics team works building a bridge between researchers (biologists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians, etc.) and the computational science field, applying software best practices to the existing codes, making them more usable, reproducible and interoperable.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & SELECTION CRITERIA

Must Have – Required
- Bachelor degree or higher in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Biomedicine or similar.
- Programming Languages: Python, R
- Version-control systems: Git (GitHub, GitLab)
- Software packaging (Conda, Containers)
- Fluent English and good teamwork skills.
- Excellent Linux OS skills.

Knowledge of the following technologies is advisable
- Programming languages C,Fortran, Perl
- Read the Docs documentation process
- noSQL databases (MongoDB or similar)
- iPython interactive computing (Jupyter)
- Environment Modules (HPC)
- Spack package manager
- VM/container deployment in Cloudinfrastructures