About Eurofins

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 50,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 800 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialized clinical diagnostics testing.

In 2020, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 5.4 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

About Eurofins IT Solutions India

Eurofins IT Solutions India, EITSI is a fully owned subsidiary of Eurofins and functions as a Global Software Delivery Center exclusively catering to Eurofins Global IT business needs. The code we ship out of EITSI impacts the global network of Eurofins labs and services.

The primary focus at EITSI is to develop the next generation LIMS (Lab Information Management system), Customer portals, e-commerce solutions, ERP/CRM system, Mobile Apps & other B2B

platforms for various Eurofins Laboratories worldwide.

POSITION TITLE:              Associate Software Engineer

REPORTING TO:               Manager

REPORTING LOCATION:  Bangalore

WORKING LOCATION:      Bangalore

SUMMARY OF POSITION AND OBJECTIVES:

• With knowledge and understanding in Bio-Informatics, the candidate needs to be a biggener/proficient in Analyzing sequencing data and interpreting the results.
• Usage of Bio-Informatics tools and the development of pipelines for RNA/DNA Sequencing with the help of Unix based operating systems, job queuing systems.

POSITION & OBJECTIVES:

Job description:

• Project Management of Sequencing based Bio-Informatics Projects including data analysis, management, consulting and interpretation of results.
• Conceptualizing and developing customized Bio-Informatics solutions including interactive analysis for various sequencing based products.
• Contribute to the maintenance and development of Bio-Informatics tools and resources through knowledge of internally developed systems, open-source programs and commercial applications.
• Benchmarking different tools on standard/gold standard datasets.
• Work with R&D team members to develop, implement and maintain functioning pipelines and applications upstream and downstream of NGS data analysis, interpretation and reporting workflows.
• Support project management team through troubleshooting and resolution of encountered issues with data analysis and customer concerns.
• Document all aspects of the Bio-Informatics environment for existing systems and newly implemented
• systems in a QM compliant way. Ensure versioning through a source control system of all pipelines, configurations, algorithms, tools and applications used in production workflows.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Experience:

• Fresh pass out or with 3-6 months of internship experience

Requirements:

• Bachelors/Masters in Bio-Informatics/Bioengeneering/Biotechnology or any other equivalent degree.
• Understanding and Knowledge of analyzing NGS data and interpreting results.
• Knowledge of Bio-Informatics tools (samtools, bedtools, aligners, variant callers etc) and Databases (NCBI, GenBank, UniProt etc)
• Development of pipelines in the field of DNA/ RNA sequencing
• Programming Knowledge in - Python, bash, R/ Bioconductor.
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix based operating systems.
• Good knowledge of written and spoken English is required.

Additional Knowledge: 

• Hands on experience of job queuing systems (eg. SGE), git, Docker and common workflow language (CWL) based frameworks (Snakemake/Nexflow)
• Knowledge of Singularity image creation
• Cloud-Azure knowledge
• R/ Shiny based or alternative dashboard development experience Methodology we have in place and expect to be used:
• Kanban, Lean, Scaled Agile, Zero Defect development method
• Daily Stand-ups with other developers directly involved
• Scrum of Scrums, Innovation Sprints (after every 3rd Sprint)
• Continuous integration
• Automated Build and Deployments
• Automated Unit & Functional Testing
• Follow Development guidelines and coding style

• Bachelors/Masters in Bio-Informatics/Bio-engineering etc.