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From our entrepreneurial roots to our current global presence, we'vegrown into a force for positive change. With thousands of employees across six continents, collaboration is our greatest strength. We’realways striving to identifytalented individuals to join our exceptional teams.\nWe have played a pivotal role in shaping modern science and healthcare, and we'rejust getting started. If you'resomeone who thrives on new challenges, values diversity and wants to make a tangible difference in people's lives, then QIAGEN is the place for you.\nAt QIAGEN, every day is an opportunity to make a real-life impact.\nJoin us, grow with us, and together, let'sshape the future of biological discovery.\n\nAbout the opportunity\nJoin Franklin by QIAGEN and help turn complex genomic and clinical data into insights that support clinical genetics and research. 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Partnering with software engineers, product managers and clinical genetics experts, you will tackle complex scientific problems where accuracy, reproducibility and reliability matter.\nYour tasks include\nDesigning, developing and productionizing machine-learning algorithms for genomic and clinical datasets, including variant classification and prioritization, phenotype-genotype matching and cohort-level analysis.\nBuilding and evaluating LLM-powered applications, RAG solutions and agentic workflows, from early prototypes through production deployment.\nDeveloping NLP and text-mining pipelines that transform scientific literature and other unstructured biomedical content into structured, actionable data.\nTranslating biological, clinical and product challenges into robust and scalable technical solutions in partnership with software engineers, product managers and domain experts.\nOptimizing data-intensive algorithms using parallel and distributed computing approaches.\nManaging the end-to-end model lifecycle, including experimentation, validation, testing, deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement.\nApplying high standards of accuracy, reproducibility and production reliability while communicating technical findings and trade-offs clearly to different stakeholders.\n\nYour profile\n5+ years of professional experience in data science, machine learning or applied research, including hands-on experience deploying ML solutions into production.\nStrong Python expertise and practical experience with relevant data science and ML technologies such as NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch or TensorFlow.\nStrong foundations in statistics, machine learning and algorithm design, with the ability to translate mathematical and statistical approaches into maintainable production solutions.\nHands-on experience with LLM applications, RAG or agentic workflows, combined with NLP or text-mining experience involving unstructured data.\nExperience with parallel or distributed computing and solid software-engineering practices, including Git, testing, code review and maintainable code.\nAn MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Data Science or another relevant quantitative discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\nFluent English communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and scientific disciplines. 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