Senior Computational Scientist

Senior Computational Scientist Cambridge / Hybrid SRG are recruiting for a Senior Computational Scientist / Bioinformatician to join a clinical cancer genomics company who are developing innovative diagnostic tools.…

Hybrid Healthcare
Contract type Contract
Posted 20 August 2026

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Senior Computational Scientist

Cambridge / Hybrid

SRG are recruiting for a Senior Computational Scientist / Bioinformatician to join a clinical cancer genomics company who are developing innovative diagnostic tools. Based in Cambridge, they are seeking an experienced Computational Scientist to develop bioinformatic algorithms and pipelines and prototype data analysis solutions for the early R&D phase. This will initially be contract position of 9-12 months with the potential to become a permanent position.

Key Responsibilities

As the Senior Computational Scientist, you will be supporting the development of pioneering new cancer diagnostic approaches. Key duties will include:

Contribute to the development of novel methodologies and algorithms.
Perform computational analysis from new and custom assay prototypes (e.g., NGS-based assays).
Provide innovative in-silico solution to investigate or interpret existing and novel data, using internal or external data sources.
Provide first implementation of Bioinformatics pipeline to aid initial product investigation.

Required

A PhD, MSc or similar qualification in computational science / Bioinformatics or relevant equivalent experience.
Significant, proven experience in Bioinformatics.Proficiency with scientific programming (e.g., R or Python)
Experience in supervising project execution for the creation of products/algorithms as computational technical lead
Proven track record in creating algorithms, pipelines, or custom analytical solutions
Hands on experience with analysis and interpretation of large scale clinical, biological/omics or drug data sets, with a preference for NGS/genomic/transcriptomics data.Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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