Your mission
IT-Support to tackle exciting life science problems.
At MBD, we seek a person with skills in process monitoring and scheduling, pipeline development, and software development. In the recent past, we significantly upgraded our CPU/GPU computer hardware and have exclusive access to multiple high-performance compute servers to analyse big life science data. In parallel, we have to continuously develop and optimise our software solutions towards efficient, high-performance computation to cope with the increasing complexity of big data. On top of that, we reach out to the community whenever possible and encapsulate our services into pipelines and web applications. Together, our hardware, pipelines and encapsulated software applications require constant monitoring, maintenance and development.
In collaboration with our team at MBD, the tasks to be addressed by the IT Specialist comprise:
- Web app development, deployment and maintenance
- Curation of pipelines dedicated to efficient, high-throughput data pre-processing and analysis
- Cluster management / server administration
- Distributed computing / software scaling towards grid engines
- Monitoring / work load surveillance of our HPCs
Your profile
To ensure the fulfilment of our goals, we welcome applications as IT support from software and IT specialists with the following expertise:
- University degree in computer science, bioinformatics or a comparable field
- Experience in accessing server units through command-line, as well as developing/maintaining analysis pipelines in containerized environments, is a must
- Proficiency in R and/or Python for pipeline and web application development, as well as big data analysis
- Interest in life science data science, including gene expression and microbiome data analysis, is a plus
- Knowledge in statistical methods in the context of biological systems is a plus
Application
Leibniz-HKI is an equal opportunity employer that promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace. It strives to increase the proportion of underrepresented groups with equal qualifications. We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications, regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.
Please submit your complete application documents (cover letter, CV, previous work, letters of recommendation, references) via the Leibniz-HKI application portal. The application deadline is 31 March 2026 , but applications received after this date may still be considered until the position is filled.
