Biotechnology Jobs in Oxford

• Abingdon
• Hybrid
• £60,000 – £75,000 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

National role driving new business and growing existing accounts across the UK life sciences construction market, targeting projects worth £1m-£20m in pharmaceutical, biotech, lab and healthcare facilities. Involves building relationships with end users, consultants and designers, tracking capital programmes, and working with estimating, design and pre-construction teams to shape proposals through tender and contract award.

• Oxford
• On-site
• £40,178 – £48,700 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Join a Gates Foundation-funded programme developing nanopore-based sensing platforms to detect volatile organic compounds in biological samples, part of the multidisciplinary Decoding Olfaction collaboration. The role combines chemical biology and biophysics to advance single-molecule sensing, with the goal of enabling personalised and continuous health monitoring. Multiple fixed-term postdoc positions are available in a collaborative academic and industrial environment.

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Permanent

Builds AI agents on the LifeAI platform that help scientists plan and carry out research, connecting models, tools, data and compute. Focuses on agent skills, tool integrations and evaluations for protein design and enzyme engineering, enabling agents to propose workflows, explain assumptions and produce candidates for experimental testing. Works with scientific product managers, researchers and platform teams, reporting to the Lead Software Engineer.

LifeAI

• Abingdon
• On-site
• Entry level
• Permanent · Shift work

Operate pilot plant reactors and ancillary equipment in a GMP-regulated large-scale chemical production environment, running multiple syntheses, some never previously scaled. Duties include routine maintenance and reconfiguration of reaction vessels, environmental monitoring, accurate batch documentation, and shift handovers. The role follows a rotating 12-hour day and night shift pattern averaging 42 hours per week.

Microsoft Office

• Oxford
• On-site
• Permanent

Supports the design, construction and commissioning of new plant science laboratories, greenhouses and growth facilities. Coordinates project plans, equipment scoping and procurement, supplier quotations, deliveries and installation, and maintains readiness checklists and stakeholder communications across research and technical teams.

• Oxford
• Remote
• £60,000 – £80,000 pa

Serve as the primary scientific resource for customers after instrument installation, guiding onboarding, training and advanced fluorescence imaging workflows. Troubleshoot sample preparation, image acquisition and data analysis issues, build training materials, and feed customer insights to product teams. Remote-based with around 25% travel across the UK and Europe for installations.

• Oxford
• £50,000 – £65,000 pa
• Lead

Hands-on lab role owning assay design, development and delivery across plant biology and cell science. Involves building mode-of-action assays, developing automated high-throughput analysis pipelines, and sharing plant physiology expertise across multidisciplinary teams while mentoring colleagues on experimental records and protocols.

Brightfield Microscopy · Fluorescence Microscopy

• Oxford
• On-site
• £36,360 – £42,434 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Supports an experimental programme building predictive models of cells, maintaining mammalian cell systems and running workflows such as endogenous protein tagging, CRISPR perturbation, optical pooled screening, live-cell imaging and proteomics. Works with computational and experimental researchers, generating engineered cell models and analysing data within a collaborative lab.

CRISPR · Flow Cytometry · Immunoblotting +4