Biotechnology Jobs

Senior Manager, Packaging Engineering

Lead the technical development and implementation of a new labeling and secondary packaging operation at Moderna's Harwell site, ensuring compliance with GxP and safety standards. Establish maintenance strategies, lead capital projects, and drive continuous improvement using engineering excellence principles. Work closely with global teams and support digital integration in a high-growth biotech environment.

Moderna Oxford, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Project Specialist, Clinical Supplies

This role involves coordinating clinical supply operations for Moderna’s mRNA-based therapeutics, ensuring investigational products are labeled, packaged, and distributed efficiently to clinical sites. The specialist will work cross-functionally with vendors and internal teams to maintain supply chain compliance, support IRT systems, manage temperature excursions, and drive digital innovation in supply operations.

Moderna Oxford, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Scientist - Photosynthesis Assay Development

Develop and scale experimental platforms to evaluate engineered protein variants' impact on photosynthetic efficiency, photoprotection, and carbon assimilation in plants. Utilize transient expression systems, molecular biology, and advanced phenotyping to accelerate crop productivity research. Collaborate with computational scientists and protein engineers to inform downstream crop transformation decisions.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

(Senior) Scientist, Plant Metabolic Engineering

This role involves developing metabolic engineering and synthetic biology strategies to optimise plant respiratory activity, energy status, and redox balance. Work is conducted in plant cell cultures and whole plants using iterative design–build–test–learn cycles, with translation from lab to real-world applications supported by multi-omics phenotyping and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The scientist will drive IP generation and contribute to commercialising innovations in sustainable agriculture and plant-based production.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Senior Platform Engineer

This role involves building and operating a scalable, secure cloud platform to support scientific research and experimentation. The engineer will implement CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, enforce policy-as-code with Kyverno, and develop monitoring and self-service infrastructure for research workloads ranging from Python notebooks to distributed GPU clusters.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

Hybrid

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Chin Lab) - Generative Biology Institute

This role involves designing and executing high-throughput genome engineering experiments and scalable phenotypic measurements in bacterial systems to generate training data for multi-modal biological models. The researcher will work at the intersection of wet-lab biology and AI, collaborating closely with computational scientists to build and validate models. The position emphasizes method development, data generation, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and mentorship within a cutting-edge synthetic biology institute.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom £40,000 pa

On-site Permanent

Software Engineer - Live AI Platform

You will design and build a full-stack AI platform that connects scientists directly to experimental results, owning the system architecture from model endpoint to user interface. The role involves rapid prototyping, close collaboration with in-house scientists, and shaping both product and technology for a novel scientific discovery platform. You'll start as an individual contributor with a path to lead technical direction.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Software Engineer - Intent Translation

Develop software to translate scientific protocols into reliable, automated laboratory processes by capturing tacit biological knowledge and encoding it into executable, traceable systems. Work closely with scientists and engineers to ensure automated results match manual outcomes, design data models for reproducibility, and validate runs in real lab environments. The role bridges deep scientific understanding with software engineering to make autonomous labs function effectively.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Software Engineer - Orchestration

This role involves building the execution engine for autonomous laboratories, bridging AI-driven decision-making with reliable, safe control of laboratory hardware. You'll design systems that translate high-level agent intent into precise, observable, and recoverable sequences of actions, ensuring operations remain within biological and mechanical constraints. The work emphasizes robustness, closed-loop validation through sensors and feedback, and handling failures gracefully in real-world scientific environments.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

(Senior) Computational Genomics Scientist, Algorithms & AI/ML

Design and develop computational algorithms and AI/ML methods to translate metagenomic sequencing data into actionable clinical and public health insights. Focus on taxonomic classification, antimicrobial resistance prediction, and scalable workflow integration within a multidisciplinary team. Work leverages long-read sequencing and large-scale pathogen genomic datasets to advance diagnostic tools.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Scientist, AMR Genomics - Pathogen

This role involves curating expert rules for interpreting antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genotypic data, analysing whole genome sequences and antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) results, and supporting the development of diagnostic tools. The scientist will investigate novel resistance mechanisms, collaborate on machine learning models, and contribute to a large-scale pathogen database using long-read sequencing. Work is primarily desk-based with opportunities for lab research and cross-team collaboration in a high-impact, translational environment.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Mass Spectrometry Technician

This role involves hands-on operation and maintenance of GC-MS and LC-MS systems to support metabolomics research in plant science. The technician will prepare biological samples, conduct high-quality mass spectrometry analyses, process and interpret data using bioinformatics tools, and provide technical support to researchers. Emphasis is placed on precision, collaboration with scientists, and ensuring reliable instrument performance within a multidisciplinary, innovation-driven environment focused on global food security and sustainability.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Bioinformatician

This role involves developing and implementing bioinformatics algorithms to analyse genomic and transcriptomic data from complex plant genomes. The bioinformatician will translate biological research questions into computational analyses, apply machine learning to predict phenotypic outcomes, and collaborate closely with engineering and research teams to integrate tools into scalable pipelines. The position is embedded within a multidisciplinary plant science institute focused on global food security and sustainability.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Bioinformatics Engineer

The role involves building and maintaining scalable bioinformatics data infrastructure and workflow orchestration systems to support plant science research. You will develop Nextflow pipelines, ETL processes, and reproducible workflows that integrate omics data from lab instrumentation into analysis-ready formats. Collaboration with bioinformaticians, data analysts, and systems administrators ensures solutions meet evolving research needs in a high-performance computing and cloud environment.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Bioinformatician - Pathogen

This role involves developing and refining bioinformatics workflows to analyse whole genome and metagenomic sequencing data for infectious disease diagnostics. The bioinformatician will work closely with wet lab scientists to interpret complex datasets, focusing on taxonomic classification, antimicrobial resistance prediction, and strain characterisation. The position supports a translational research initiative aiming to deploy scalable diagnostic tools globally.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent