Bioinformatician with focus on coding and package development

4 weeks ago

Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Statens Serum Institut Full time

Are you passionate about development and maintenance of bioinformatic tools and wish to contribute to surveillance of bacterial pathogens in public health? Then you might be our new colleague in the Section for Foodborne Infections at Statens Serum Institut.

About the position

We are currently looking for a bioinformatician who can contribute to the deployment of several analytical methodologies as well-documented python packages. This work is part of the EU-project MicrobeSeq, which is a large cross-institute initiative. You will be working with colleagues across sections and departments at Statens Serum Institut.

You will primarily be participating in a collaborative coding environment, where you will develop our in-house methodologies as documented python packages using the nbdev ecosystem as development guidelines. Likewise, you will set up custom workflows from widely used tools in galaxy and/or irida.

In addition, you will provide support for the continuous surveillance of bacterial infections by working on other minor tasks, such as data extraction from databases, data visualizations, and executing bioinformatic tools on data sets. You will work in collaboration with other bioinformaticians and specialists in pathogen surveillance such as microbiologists and epidemiologists.

Education, experience and personal qualifications

You have a master's degree in bioinformatics or equivalent. Ideally, you will have some working experience with bioinformatics and master most of the points below (in prioritized order).

Specialized in Python Programming
Generating easily readable and well documented code
Experience with collaborative coding
Experience with package development, preferably though nbdev
Experience with working in Unix
Knowledge of version control via Git (or GitHub)
Understand how to handle whole genome sequence data
Knowledge within the field of microorganisms and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an advantage, but not a requirement

You are passionate about good software practices, including documentation, and keen to do some system administration and user support tasks. You are good at identifying issues and proposing solutions, and enjoy learning new skills as part of your job. Furthermore, you have strong communication skills.

We offer you inspiring colleagues and flexible working conditions

You will work with various scientific disciplines in close collaboration with medical experts in an inspiring workplace. You will be a part of an institute offering flexible working conditions and the opportunity to work with pressing issues as part of a modern public health system.

We are a family friendly workplace with a 37-hour working week incl. lunch break. In addition to this, we have an active sports association (IK-SERA) with exercise rooms, a staff association and an affiliated kindergarten. We are located in Copenhagen with good public transport options (bus and metro).

About us

Statens Serum Institut (SSI) is under the auspices of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Health. Our main duty is to ensure preparedness against infectious diseases and biological threats as well as control of congenital disorders. Our mission is to strengthen health through disease control and research.

The position is placed in the Section for Foodborne Infections, Department for Bacteria, Parasites and Fungi at Statens Serum Institut. The section is monitoring foodborne bacterial infections in humans, antibiotic resistance in bacteria and providing specialized diagnostic testing.

You will be part of a multidisciplinary team with bioinformaticians, data scientists, medical doctors, veterinarians, microbiologists, molecular biologists and laboratory technicians.

At Statens Serum Institut, the aim is to constantly follow the latest developments in order to provide first-class surveillance and reach within the field. Statens Serum Institut is currently involved in an EU-project (MicrobeSeq), where cross-institutional collaboration aims at developing and providing an open and fully documented large scale workflow for generating, analyzing, and performing characterization tasks on whole genome sequencing data from bacterial isolates.

Terms of employment

Depending on your educational background and level of experience, salary and appointment terms will be based on the collective agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the Danish Federation of Professional Associations, the Central Organisation of Academics (AC) (overenskomst for akademikere i staten).

The position is limited and it is expected during the period September to 30 April 2026.

Further information?

For further information about the positions, please contact bioinformatician Kristoffer Kiil , or Head of Section Eva Møller Nielsen ,

Are you interested?

Click on "søg stillingen" (apply for position) and send us your application. The application must include a motivational letter, CV, copies of relevant academic diplomas and other relevant documents. You can get more information about us at

Interviews can be expected to be held in week 35.

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