Data Scientist at University of Cape Town

Requirements for the job:

• PhD in immunology, computational biology, statistics or related field
• 2 years of postdoctoral experience
• Experience in clinical/vaccine trial immunology 
• Expertise in analysis of high-dimensional immunology datasets and experience in scripting/programming languages (R or Python) 
• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation skills and fluency in English 

The following will be advantageous:

• Experience in single-cell sequencing; flow cytometry
• Knowledge and experience in high performance computing clusters; cloud computing; version controlling (i.e. Git)
• Knowledge of statistical methods relevant to biomedical sciences
• Scientific and technical writing

Responsibilities:

• Design, execution, quality assurance, analysis, interpretation and reporting of molecular or cellular datasets of human immune responses in clinical trials of novel TB vaccines or of immune responses in peripheral blood as well as human tissues (e.g. lung and lymph nodes).
• Develop, implement and maintain reproducible analysis pipelines, computational workflows, and data-management systems.
• Perform data QC and ensure best practices for coding, version control, data sharing and documentation.
• Provide bioinformatics and biostatistical support, advice and solutions to SATVI colleagues.

Closing date:               

19 March 2026