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Job-ID 08/2026

At the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI), we investigate the pathobiology of microorganisms and develop new natural product-based active compounds for the treatment of infectious diseases.

IT Support (m/f/div)

Your mission

You provide IT support to tackle exciting life science problems.

At MBD, we seek a person with skills in process monitoring and scheduling, pipeline development, and software development. In the recent past, we significantly upgraded our CPU / GPU computer hardware and have exclusive access to multiple high-performance computing servers to analyse big life science data. In parallel, we have to continuously develop and optimize our software solutions towards efficient, high-performance computation to cope with the increasing complexity of big data.  On top of that, we reach out to the community whenever possible and encapsulate our services into pipelines and web applications. Together, our hardware, pipelines, and encapsulated software applications require constant monitoring, maintenance, and development.

In collaboration with our team at MBD, the tasks to be addressed by the IT specialist comprise:

• Web app development, deployment, and maintenance
• Curation of pipelines dedicated to efficient, high-throughput data pre-processing and analysis
• Cluster management / server administration
• Distributed computing / software scaling towards grid engines
• Monitoring / workload surveillance of our HPCs

Your profile

To ensure the fulfilment of our goals, we welcome applications as IT support from software and IT specialists with the following expertise:

• University degree in computer science, bioinformatics, or a comparable field
• Experience in accessing server units through command-line, as well as developing / maintaining analysis pipelines in containerized environments, is a must
• Proficiency in R and/or Python for pipeline and web application development, as well as big data analysis
• Interest in life science data science, including gene expression and microbiome data analysis, is a plus
• Knowledge in statistical methods in the context of biological systems is a plus

We offer

• The IT-support will be hosted in the Department of Microbiome Dynamics (MBD) of Prof. Dr. Gianni Panagiotou of the Leibniz-HKI in an international, dynamic team with access to state-of-the-art computational resources.
• Remuneration will be according to the TV-L (Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Federal States, unrestricted, full-time) at the salary level E10. Depending on qualifications, adjustments are possible. As an equal opportunity employer, the Leibniz-HKI is committed to increasing the percentage of female scientists and therefore especially encourages them to apply.

Applications

Contact details

Prof. Dr. Gianni Panagiotou | +49 3641 532-1759

Leibniz-HKI is an equal opportunity employer that promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace. It strives to increase the proportion of underrepresented groups with equal qualifications. We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications, regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion / belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.

Please submit your complete application documents (cover letter, CV, previous work, letters of recommendation, references) via the Leibniz-HKI online portal. The application deadline is March 13, 2026 , but applications received after this date may still be considered until the position is filled.

Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology
Adolf-Reichwein-Straße 23 | 07745 Jena