13 jobs for “Protein Engineer”
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.
Evotec Macclesfield
Lead the design, engineering, expression, purification and characterisation of complex biologic therapeutics including monoclonal, bispecific and multispecific antibodies. Acts as biologics scientific lead on client-facing drug discovery programmes, mentoring junior scientists and shaping project strategy within a multidisciplinary Protein Sciences team.
Latent Labs London
Architect novel generative models to design functional proteins, working in an interdisciplinary team of ML researchers, protein engineers and biologists. Split roughly 90/10 between building and evaluating models against wet lab results and self-development, with heavy emphasis on data pipelines, cloud training and production-quality code.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Develops and optimises high-throughput enzyme assays to characterise plant protein variants from AI-assisted design and evolutionary discovery. Works with computational scientists, automation engineers and roboticists to build scalable protein expression, purification and biochemical characterisation pipelines, informing protein engineering and crop yield decisions.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Lead a flagship research programme in biological nitrogen fixation, engineering novel nitrogen-fixing systems into plants through metabolic and protein engineering. Recruit and manage a team of postdocs and PhD students, drive stage-gated translational research from lab to field, and build collaborations across EIT Oxford and commercial partners.
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.
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.
UCL London £68,284 – £76,244 pa
Develops and leads an AI-driven research programme in biomolecular design and molecular interactions, spanning protein-ligand, protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid systems. Combines structural biology, biophysics, quantitative biology and machine learning, while teaching computational biology and biomolecular design at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including a new MRes in AI for Bioscience.
Roche Welwyn
Builds physics-grounded machine learning models that combine quantum chemistry with ML to predict small-molecule energetics, conformation, reactivity, binding affinity and free energy. Works in a small-molecule team within AI for Drug Discovery, creating synthetic quantum-mechanics datasets and deployable pipelines that feed molecular-design tools across Roche, with a strong publication and open-source focus.
Roche Basel, Switzerland
Build physics-grounded machine learning models that combine quantum chemistry with ML to predict small-molecule energetics, conformation, reactivity, binding affinity and free energy. Work in a small-molecule team within AI for Drug Discovery, creating synthetic QM datasets and deployable, scalable pipelines that feed molecular-design tools across Roche, alongside computational and experimental scientists.
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.
Evotec Macclesfield
Designs and executes work plans for early drug discovery projects within a Protein Sciences team, supporting multiple projects and presenting results to clients. Hands-on role focused on recombinant protein expression using insect cell systems such as BEVS, S2 and Sf9, including construct design, baculovirus generation and troubleshooting difficult targets like membrane proteins.
Nuclera Cambridge
Formulate, dispense and quality-control reagents for a protein discovery platform, operating lab equipment such as pipettes, centrifuges and UPLC systems. The role covers batch documentation, inventory management via ERP and troubleshooting production deviations, working closely with R&D, QA and Supply Chain in a fast-paced lab environment.
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.
