Biotechnology Jobs

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior

Lead pharmacology and translational biology strategy for large molecule therapeutics, designing in vivo efficacy and complex in vitro functional assays. Act as Biology Lead on projects, coordinating internal workflows and external CROs, and collaborate with ML and computational biology teams to feed data into generative AI design loops.

AI · ML · Generative AI +1

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior

Research engineers translate frontier research concepts into practical implementations, building and optimising state-of-the-art AI models such as Transformers, GNNs and diffusion models, plus the codebases, data pipelines and infrastructure for training and evaluation. The role sits in an interdisciplinary team of drug discovery experts and ML specialists, with a strong emphasis on experimentation, benchmarking and taking models from conception to production.

JAX · PyTorch · XLA +6

• Cambridge
• Senior

Leads stem cell-focused drug discovery projects, designing and optimising human iPSC-derived models, 2D/3D assays and disease models, and applying New Approach Methodologies to client programmes. Partners directly with pharmaceutical and biotech clients, presenting data and shaping project strategy, while mentoring colleagues and contributing to proposals and capability development.

Organoids · Spheroid systems · Co-culture models +4

• Stevenage
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• US$340,500 – US$567,500 pa
• Director · manages people

Leads global development of a cancer vaccine asset from late-stage transition through approval and launch, acting as single point of accountability. Builds and leads a matrix Medicine Development Team spanning clinical development, immunology, manufacturing, regulatory, safety, medical affairs and commercial, and sets the asset strategy within GSK's oncology R&D portfolio.

mRNA · Checkpoint Inhibitors

• Zug, Switzerland
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• US$340,500 – US$567,500 pa
• Director · manages people

Leads global development of a cancer vaccine asset from late-stage transition through approval and launch, acting as single point of accountability across major markets. Builds and directs a matrix Medicine Development Team spanning clinical development, immunology/biomarkers, manufacturing, regulatory, safety, medical affairs and commercial, and serves as asset spokesperson to senior governance boards.

mRNA · Checkpoint Inhibitors

• Newcastle upon Tyne
• £30,180 pa
• Contract

Support ongoing research in the Murray lab on the mechanism of DNA in bacteria, using standard microbiology techniques, bacterial two-hybrid assays, and AlphaFold3 to predict protein-protein interfaces. The post also provides direct support to a cohort of undergraduate research students, working within a professional technical community under the Biosciences Institute Technical Manager.

AlphaFold3

• London
• Lead

Lead the development of country, site and patient enrollment strategies for complex global clinical trials, analysing clinical and operational data to shape feasibility and study delivery. Present recommendations to clients and senior stakeholders, with a particular focus on APAC opportunities including China. Mentors colleagues and acts as subject-matter expert for planning tools.

• Maidenhead
• Mid-level

Unblinded monitoring of pharmacies at clinical trial sites across Scotland and the North of England, with possible additional UK and Ireland sites. Involves Investigational Product oversight, ICH-GCP compliance, eTMF documentation and acting as primary contact for pharmacy monitoring, within a sponsor-dedicated team.

eTMF

• London
• On-site
• £27,500 – £30,000 pa
• Entry level
• Temporary

Processing blood and other biofluids from volunteer donors in a research services lab, including centrifugation, buffy coat and PBMC separation, reagent preparation and microbiological/viral testing of urine. Work follows Human Tissue Act, ISO 9001 and internal safety standards, with responsibility for maintaining laboratory records. Suited to someone starting out who has some blood or accredited lab experience.

• Leeds
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Entry level
• Permanent

Develops protocols and clinical study reports for early-phase trials (I-IIa), focusing on safety and pharmacokinetics. Coordinates cross-functional teams and client stakeholders to drive documents from draft to final deliverable, with on-the-job training in medical writing.

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid · 1–2 days in office
• Senior
• Temporary

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.

Job Dispatcher · FiRE · Angular +7

• Edinburgh
• Mid-level · manages people

Oversee a transgenic facility producing around 100 genetically modified animal models annually, advising researchers on project design and methodologies. Lead and develop three specialist technical staff while managing cryobanks, budgets, cost-recovery and regulatory compliance. The role combines hands-on molecular biology and transgenesis expertise with operational leadership in a university-linked biomedical research setting.

• Didcot
• On-site
• Lead · manages people

Lead a team of software engineers delivering next-generation Raman spectroscopy software from the Laser Spectroscopy Center of Excellence in Oxford (Harwell). The role owns R&D operations across the software product lifecycle, solving engineering challenges and integrating hardware and software with global partners, using modern architectures such as containerisation, Kubernetes, microservices and cloud deployment.

Kubernetes · Linux · Microsoft

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Permanent

Builds AI agents on the LifeAI platform that help scientists plan and carry out research, connecting models, tools, data and compute. Focuses on agent skills, tool integrations and evaluations for protein design and enzyme engineering, enabling agents to propose workflows, explain assumptions and produce candidates for experimental testing. Works with scientific product managers, researchers and platform teams, reporting to the Lead Software Engineer.

LifeAI

• Keele
• £39,560 – £48,337 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

A postdoctoral research associate role delivering the insect-focused laboratory components of a consortium project on a planthopper-vectored bacterial plant disease. The postholder investigates vector ecology and transmission biology using insect rearing, bioassays, EPG analysis and molecular techniques such as PCR and qRT-PCR, with occasional travel within the UK and Europe.

Electrical Penetration Graph · Bioinformatics