Closing Date: 15/03/2025

Company Description

Insmed is a global biopharmaceutical company on a mission to transform the lives of patients living with serious and rare diseases. Our most valuable resource is our employees, and everything we do is motivated by a patients-first mentality. We are dedicated to growing our team with talented individuals from around the world who are willing to challenge the status quo, solve problems, and work collaboratively with a sense of urgency and compassion.

Guided by our core values of collaboration, accountability, passion, respect, and integrity, we aim to foster an inclusive, diverse, and flexible work environment, where our employees are recognized for leaning in and rolling up their sleeves. If you share our vision and want to work with the most dedicated people in the biopharma industry, come to Insmed to accelerate your career.

Recognitions

Consistently Ranked Science’s Top Employer

Insmed is dedicated to creating a collaborative environment where our team can thrive. Every day, our employees turn their passion for science and research into innovative solutions for patients. That’s why we’ve been named the No. 1 company to work for in the biopharma industry in Science’s Top Employers survey for four years in a row.

A Certified Great Place to Work®

We believe our company is truly special, and our employees agree. In July 2024, we became Great Place to Work-certified in the U.S. for the fourth year in a row. We are also honored to have been listed on the Best Workplaces in Biopharma™, Best Workplaces in New York™, PEOPLE® Companies That Care, Best Workplaces for Women™, Best Workplaces for Millennials™, and Best Medium Workplaces™ lists.

Summary

Insmed Cambridge are advancing an early-stage research engine encompassing a wide range of technologies and modalities to deliver powerful new ways of treating a broad range of serious and rare diseases. We are seeking a skilled Senior Bioinformatic Developer to contribute to pipeline and platform development across a range of projects and data types. This role will act to support the pursuit of scientific research from early-stage target discovery and validation to lead optimisation and candidate selection. In this role you will contribute to and lead efforts on developing tools, building analytical pipelines, and designing and delivering data infrastructure. This work will require innovative thinking, a co-creation mindset and collaborative partnering with a multidisciplinary team including biologists, chemists, human geneticists, platform developers and data scientists.

Responsibilities

Change the way scientific decisions are made by helping to build a data platform and supporting ecosystem tasked with putting the maximal amount of high quality and informative data before our decision makers.

Be a key player in a medium sized dynamic team, designing and maintaining critical bioinformatic platforms, tools and pipelines to help solve scientific problems

Raise the bar for coding standards, ensuring delivery of production quality, thoroughly tested, and easily maintainable code.

Collaborate on the design and implementation of a flexible bioinformatic web-ecosystem empowering our wet lab scientists and data scientists to get more out of their data.

Engineer, optimise, and validate internal pipelines to be flexible, scalable, and configurable while maintaining high quality standards.

Take the lead on project delivery communicating project updates clearly and transparently to key decision makers.

What we are looking for

PhD (or equivalent experience) in bioinformatics, biology, genetics, medicine, machine learning, statistics, computer science or a similar area coupled with some bioinformatic experience gained in industry.

Experience coding collaboratively and using git as part of a larger collaborative project.

Experience delivering production quality python code.

Experience with a python testing framework (e.g. pytest, unittest)

Experience building tools that read and write from a database.

Experience working with containerised solutions.

Knowledge of, and experience in, at least one of the following: API development, front end development, ETL pipelines or event-queue managers.

This role will require you to work from our brand-new state-of-the-art offices and labs situated in Babraham Research Campus, South Cambridge. Hybrid working is offered based on specific business needs and the role requirements.

Compensation & Benefits

At Insmed, we’re committed to investing in every team member’s total well-being, now and in the future. Our benefit programs vary by country but we offer the following to all Insmed team members, regardless of geographic location:

Flexible approach to how we work

Health benefits and time-off plans

Competitive compensation package, including bonus

Equity Awards (Long-Term Incentives)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Additional Information

Insmed Incorporated is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Unsolicited resumes from agencies should not be forwarded to Insmed. Insmed will not be responsible for any fees arising from the use of resumes through this source. Insmed will only pay a fee to agencies if a formal agreement between Insmed and the agency has been established. The Human Resources department is responsible for all recruitment activities; please contact us directly to be considered for a formal agreement.

Insmed is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us by email at TotalRewards@insmed.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

Applications are accepted for 5 calendar days from the date posted or until the position is filled.