7 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.
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.
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.
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.
EMBL-EBI Saffron Walden £3,452 pm
Maintains microbial genomes in Ensembl, loading new annotations, coordinating releases and diagnosing data issues. Develops functional annotation and pangenome pipelines, evaluates taxon-specific annotation tools, and builds Nextflow or Snakemake workflows with Python, relational databases and HPC or cloud infrastructure.
