41 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
