Intern - Bioinformatics screening of fungal species (m/f/d)

Your mission

• Build and maintain data pipelines that enable the exploration of fungal biodiversity and unlock the potential of fungal fermentation
• Develop automated workflows for extracting, processing, and integrating genomic, metabolomic, and functional annotation data from public and internal sources
• Link compounds, biosynthetic pathways, and biological functions to fungal genomes and metabolomes to accelerate strain discovery and characterization
• Analyze biological and fermentation data to identify factors that drive target compound productivity and optimize fermentation performance
• Work with large biological datasets, leveraging bioinformatics tools and databases to generate actionable insights
• Collaborate closely with scientists, data engineers, and software developers to integrate bioinformatics workflows into our data platform
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of data infrastructure, automation capabilities, and computational methods for fungal research

Your profile

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Data Science, Biotechnology, or a related field
• Hands-on experience with bioinformatics tools, pipelines, and public databases such as BLAST, NCBI, UniProt, KEGG, or similar resources
• Proficiency in Python and relevant bioinformatics libraries (e.g., Biopython) for data analysis and workflow development
• Experience with database querying, data parsing, API integration, and structured data formats such as JSON and XML
• Familiarity with version control systems, preferably Git
• Strong analytical thinking, troubleshooting abilities, and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working at the interface of biology and data science, with a passion for turning complex biological data into meaningful insights
• Team-oriented mindset combined with initiative, reliability, and a hands-on approach to scientific discovery
• Excellent communication skills in English (spoken and written); German is a plus

Our Benefits:

• Work for one of the global innovation leaders in the food industry
• Dynamic and diverse mission-driven team from more than 25 different countries
• A fast growing company with exceptional opportunities for personal development
• Flat hierarchies and short decision paths
• Flexible working hours with entitled Home Office days in an innovative and agile working environment
• Gym Membership, language classes or an attractive alternative from our benefit program
• Great team events such as "lunch & learn", "Demo Day", cultural celebrations and food tastings
• Drinks, cereal bar and fresh fruit at the office, our home products tasting session for new employees
• Lastly, join us in the journey as we change the food system as we know it!

About us

Infinite Roots® is a biotech company based in Hamburg, Germany. We tackle some of the world's biggest challenges through products we develop by leveraging the fungal kingdom. Our team of 60+ people from 25 nationalities - 55% women and 10 PhDs strong - shares one mission: to unlock the full potential of fungi for a more sustainable future.