Data Scientist - Bioinformatics / EF / São José dos Campos/SP
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We are GBS – Global Business Services, Bayer's shared services center, located in
São José dos Campos – São Paulo. GBS acts as a global strategic hub, supporting different areas of the company.
At this position you will be part of a Digital hub in GBS supporting R&D functions as Regulatory Science, Discovery and Testing for our Crop Protection business.
The Bioinformatics Data Scientist supports bioinformatic and genomic analyses that inform regulatory and product decisions, contributing to scalable, reproducible compute platforms and analytical pipelines. You will help operate and support the maintenance of cloud and local environments that enable regulatory-ready genomic workflows and in-silico testing, supporting execution of analyses in controlled, auditable and cost-aware environments, following established regulatory and platform standards.
GBS has a global and collaborative scope, offering development opportunities and allowing a broad view of processes and interaction with different areas and sites of Bayer. GBS has a global and collaborative scope, offering development opportunities and allowing a broad view of processes and interaction with different areas and sites of Bayer.
YOUR MISSION WILL BE TO:
Conduct and evaluate bioinformatic and genomic analyses and prepare technical and regulatory documentation.
Support EAT assessments and event selection for Phase 2 to Phase 3 handoff decisions.
Contribute to the design and operation of cloud compute stacks for the Regulatory Bioinformatics platform and DNA Characterization teams, under established architectural patterns.
Support NGS workflows for event selection, molecular characterization, whole genome sequencing and mapping.
Help ensure compute capacity for production bioinformatics, structural biology, and ad-hoc analyses.
Support connecting bioinformatics workflows to genomic sequencing centers and other AWS-based organizational functions.
Develop and maintain components of software tools and pipelines that support automation of analyses and reporting within established workflows.
Leverage ML/AI for in-silico prediction to strengthen early candidate characterization.
Support collaboration with global regulatory authorities, industry associations, and partner laboratories as part of cross-functional teams.
Share validated insights with peers and internal stakeholders.
Engage with the Bayer Data Science community and exemplify LIFE values.
Contribute to the reliability, reproducibility and versioning of bioinformatics pipelines (e.g., WGS/NGS mapping, insertion site detection, variant calling) as production systems, including CI/CD practices and failure recovery.
Support implementing cost-aware, scalable compute strategies (e.g., AWS Batch, Snakemake/Nextflow, containerized execution) and support management of large genomic datasets in cloud storage (e.g., S3 tiering and lifecycle policies).
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
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Período disponível para candidatura:
De 13/04/2026 a 28/04/2026
Referência:
864360
Divisão:
Crop Science
Local:
São José dos Campos/SP
Área Funcional:
Tecnologia da Informação
Nível da Posição:
VS 1.1
Grupo de Contratação
Regular
Horário de Trabalho
Administrativo - Modelo de trabalho híbrido
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