37 jobs for “Biotech Research Scientist”
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.
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.
Latent Labs London
Work at the interface between frontier generative models and pharmaceutical/biotech customers, deploying, adapting and fine-tuning models in customer environments. Build production-grade API integrations, model-serving infrastructure and ML data pipelines, while acting as technical point of contact for partners. Combines deep ML research with customer-facing delivery in an interdisciplinary team.
Isomorphic Labs Cambridge, United States
Experienced medicinal chemists lead portfolio drug discovery projects from initiation to clinical candidate selection, working as Project Lead or Medicinal Chemistry Lead. They partner closely with ML scientists to refine the AI drug design platform, manage CRO resources, and may line-manage teams of 2-4 chemists.
Isomorphic Labs Cambridge, United States
Lead computational drug design programs from hit identification through candidate selection, applying AI/ML to cheminformatics workflows and shaping the internal drug design engine. Roles span Program Lead or Computational Chemistry Lead, with some positions managing 2-3 computational chemists in a hybrid Cambridge, MA team.
EMBL-EBI Saffron Walden
Combines hands-on development of production bioinformatics services like Job Dispatcher with scientific and technical leadership, shaping product strategy, roadmaps and backlog priorities. Works with scientists, engineers and infrastructure teams on HPC, Nextflow, SLURM and containerised tools, and represents services in committee meetings.
Orchard Therapeutics London
Acts as subject-matter expert for the organisation's ELN platform, owning its configuration, governance and continuous improvement across R&D laboratories. Builds workflows, templates and integrations, supports superusers, and leads development of a centralised Technical Development data repository using SQL and analytics to enable data-driven scientific decisions.
AstraZeneca Cambridge
Hands-on individual contributor building and deploying agentic AI and predictive foundation models for in silico biology, including perturbation prediction and virtual cell models, to accelerate drug target identification and validation. Partners with therapeutic area scientists across Oncology and BioPharmaceuticals, writing production-quality Python pipelines and contributing to publications.
EMBL-EBI Saffron Walden
Lead solution architecture for digital experience initiatives spanning web applications, APIs, content platforms and AI-enabled services, remaining hands-on through discovery, prototyping and architectural development. Bridge UX and engineering, translating user needs into accessible, sustainable architectures while providing technical direction and people management to the development team. Focus on LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, agents and semantic search.
Moderna Oxford
Develops, validates and runs ligand-binding and cell-based bioanalytical assays generating pharmacodynamic and immunogenicity data for clinical mRNA programmes. Works in a GcLP-regulated lab using Thermo Watson LIMS and electronic notebooks, handling clinical samples, critical reagents, SOPs and validation reports while partnering with Clinical Operations and Sample Management.
GSK London US$340,500 – US$567,500 pa
Leads global development of a cancer vaccine asset from late-stage transition through approval and launch, acting as single point of accountability and chairing a cross-functional matrix Medicine Development Team spanning clinical, translational, regulatory, manufacturing and commercial. Drives strategy, go/no-go decisions and lifecycle plans for novel vaccine platforms such as mRNA and neoantigen-based therapies.
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.
IQVIA Cambridge
Hands-on bioanalytical role developing, optimising and running LC-MS/MS assays for small and large molecule DMPK studies in an early discovery setting, analysing matrices such as plasma, blood, brain, bile, faeces and urine. Combines complex mass spectrometry troubleshooting and method development with leading scientific projects, mentoring colleagues and driving novel assay innovation in a matrix team.
Ipsen London
Leads one or more Early Development Asset Teams, owning integrated strategy from candidate nomination through first-in-human trials across preclinical, translational, clinical, regulatory and CMC workstreams. Serves as scientific champion for oncology assets, presenting data and investment recommendations to governance bodies and contributing to in-licensing due diligence.
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.
Nuclera Cambridge
Full-stack engineer building customer-facing cloud and instrument software plus internal tools supporting in-house protein screening services. Owns features end to end, from gathering requirements with biologists and stakeholders through technical design, implementation and testing across backend, frontend, dev-ops and QA.
