Biotechnology Jobs

CureAge Therapeutics · London

Lead the computationally guided design of a lipid nanoparticle delivery platform, applying chemical and biophysical principles to optimise LNP composition and formulation. Use AI-enabled chemistry, cheminformatics, predictive models and molecular modelling to prioritise formulation components, working closely with the experimental team and founding team in a small start-up.

Alloy Therapeutics UK Ltd · Cambridge · £45,000 – £50,000 pa

Design and build large-scale synthetic gene loci and transgenic platforms for antibody discovery, using CRISPR/Cas9, RMCE and site-specific integrases. Hands-on molecular biology including PCR, NGS, plasmid construction and flow-cytometric immunophenotyping, within a small multidisciplinary team working from dry-lab design to wet-lab validation.

EMBL-EBI · Saffron Walden · £3,452 pm

Designs and develops software and APIs for the UniProt protein data services and website, serving a global scientific community. Also handles design, maintenance and monitoring of the website's cloud infrastructure, with a focus on scalability, well-tested code and distributed big-data processing. Works in a dynamic interdisciplinary team of engineers and bioinformaticians alongside biologists.

EMBL-EBI · Saffron Walden · £3,452 pm

Develops the user-facing Europe PMC service, building fast, accessible interfaces for searching and navigating a corpus of over 47 million biomedical publications. Works with UX, product, back-end and data science colleagues to create reusable components, integrate REST APIs and JSON data, and improve performance, accessibility and maintainability within an Agile team.

Mytos · London

Contribute across a full-stack cloud product and IoT devices that interface with hardware automating human cell production. Work spans TypeScript, React, GraphQL frontends and Node.js/PostgreSQL backends, with cross-disciplinary collaboration alongside hardware engineers and biologists, including testing on prototype machines in the lab.

Platform Recruitment · Cambridge · £35,000 – £45,000 pa

Develops FPGA and embedded firmware for high-performance data acquisition and signal processing systems used in biomedical research products. Writes VHDL for FPGA design and C for low-level hardware control, integrating with interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, USB and Ethernet. Works alongside hardware and software engineers across the full product lifecycle, with real project ownership and a progression route to senior roles.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals · London

A 12-month industrial placement within Vertex's International Supply Chain team, supporting commercial supply operations that deliver medicines globally. The student gains hands-on exposure to pharmaceutical supply chain processes, working with experienced colleagues on analytical, data-driven tasks. Based at the Paddington HQ with hybrid or on-site working options.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals · London

Join the International Nephrology marketing team for a 12-month industrial placement, supporting commercial launch strategies for a potential rare kidney disease medicine. You'll work cross-functionally on tactical marketing plans, build product and disease knowledge, and manage vendors and budgets, gaining hands-on pharma launch experience.

GSK · London

Builds and maintains financial and operational models, forecasts and dashboards that guide R&D portfolio and investment decisions, including NPV/rNPV, scenario and sensitivity analysis and Monte Carlo simulation. Works with the Head of Data Science and the Finance Portfolio Analytics Manager, turning scientific, clinical, financial and operational data into clear outputs for review discussions.

GSK · USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence

Builds and maintains financial and valuation models (NPV/rNPV, scenario and sensitivity analysis) and portfolio forecasts, metrics and KPI dashboards for R&D investment decisions. Runs probabilistic and Monte Carlo simulations, cleans data from scientific, clinical, financial and operational sources, and prepares decision materials for portfolio reviews. Works with the Head of Data Science and the Finance Portfolio Analytics Manager in a hybrid, high-visibility team.

Fortrea · Maidenhead

Monitors clinical trials across the UK under a risk-based model, covering oncology and haematology studies plus neuroscience, cell and gene therapies and other therapeutic areas. Requires at least six months of independent monitoring experience and involves 8+ on-site days per month, working with multiple protocols for biotech and biopharma sponsors.

Genomics · London

Client-facing programme manager role setting up and embedding a multidisciplinary delivery team around a major pharma partnership, running the integrated delivery plan, milestones, dependencies, risks and resourcing. Coordinates across Science, Data, Engineering, Finance, Legal and People stakeholders, running status meetings, reporting and escalations with the partner. Structured as a six-month engagement with an immediate start.

EMBL-EBI · Saffron Walden · £3,452 pm

Maintains microbial genomes in Ensembl, loading new annotations, coordinating releases and diagnosing data issues. Develops functional annotation and pangenome pipelines, evaluates taxon-specific annotation tools, and builds Nextflow or Snakemake workflows with Python, relational databases and HPC or cloud infrastructure.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals · London

A 12-month industrial placement within an international Medical Affairs team, supporting the planning and execution of medical projects in assigned therapeutic areas. The role involves project management, monthly dashboard reporting, managing external agencies, monitoring budgets for medical education events and advisory boards, and liaising with cross-functional and external stakeholders.