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.

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.

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.

Basecamp Research · London

Owns R&D extraction workflow development, adapting and optimising metagenomic DNA/RNA extraction methods across diverse, low-biomass and inhibitor-rich sample types, including HMW extractions for long-read sequencing. Designs controlled experiments, transfers validated methods to production and a global partner network, and works in a data-first lab environment feeding a large gene atlas.

Basecamp Research · London

Serves as connective tissue across Global Research, Data Science and Science teams, coordinating external sequencing vendors, research partnerships and publication timelines. Owns cross-functional process improvement and tooling oversight, ensuring training data stays synchronised with frontier AI model releases. Reports to the VP of Global Research with dotted-line alignment to the Founding TPM.

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.

Moderna · Oxford

Sole-contributor scientist role developing and executing biochemical and molecular biology assays for PK/PD analysis, spanning genomic DNA/RNA isolation, qPCR, ddPCR, RNA sequencing, MSD, ELISA and immunoblotting. Works within Moderna's Clinical Bioanalytical team at Harwell, Oxfordshire, ensuring GcLP-compliant assay qualification and validation, troubleshooting with external CRO partners, and building internal and external mRNA-based bioanalytical capability.

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.

Mytos · London

Founding designer role owning all design at a biotech automation startup, from research and concepting through testing to pixel-perfect UI, plus defining company-wide design systems. Works closely with founders, product teams and lab biologists on software for setting up experiments, managing cell batches in real time and analysing data.

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.

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.

Helical · London

Own the full post-training lifecycle for biological foundation models, from alignment strategy to production deployment. Design pipelines that adapt general-purpose models to therapeutic contexts, build validation frameworks linking model improvements to biological ground truth, and run experiments end-to-end on distributed GPU infrastructure. Collaborate with ML infrastructure and biology teams and contribute to open-source tooling.