23 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.
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.
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.
Isomorphic Labs Cambridge, United States
Lead DMPK strategy across drug discovery projects, designing screening cascades and mechanistic experiments while integrating DMPK, PD and toxicology data for dose and safety predictions. Work closely with AI/ML platform teams to optimise computational ADME models and author regulatory sections, in a hybrid Cambridge, MA role.
Isomorphic Labs London
Lead formulation strategy for small molecules across drug discovery and preclinical development, designing technologies such as solid dispersions and co-crystals to improve solubility, stability and manufacturability. Work within an interdisciplinary team alongside AI/ML drug design platform groups, managing external CRO resources and authoring regulatory submissions.
Basecamp Research London
Owns the peptide and protein platform as a commercial product, spanning market and competitive intelligence, target product profiles, roadmap and packaging decisions, and go-to-market positioning. Sits between model, data and science teams and business development, and is accountable for partner engagement and revenue generation. Requires deep peptide therapeutics and licensing deal expertise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Randstad Construction & Property London
Manages a portfolio of clinical research studies end to end, leading cross-functional teams and client relationships for Patient Cloud products such as eCOA/ePRO, eConsent and virtual trials. Involves risk assessment, study documentation and milestone tracking, with flexibility needed to work American time zones.
ProTech Recruitment Ltd Dorking £45,000 – £55,000 pa
Owns product quality issues in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, leading root cause investigations and corrective actions using 8D, 5 Whys, Fishbone, FMEA and SPC. Works closely with Engineering, Production and Supply Chain on continuous improvement, defect prevention, new product introduction and engineering change reviews, with ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 compliance in a regulated setting.
Moderna Oxford
Provides scientific and hands-on leadership for immunogenicity and ligand binding assay bioanalysis supporting mRNA-LNP therapeutic programs, spanning assay development, validation, clinical sample testing and regulatory submissions. Ensures GcLP compliance and partners with cross-functional teams, with opportunities to work alongside data and AI-enabled analytical approaches.
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.
