Biotechnology Jobs

• Oxford
• On-site
• Entry level
• Permanent

Postdoctoral role in the joint Monera project, building multi-modal generative models of whole organisms starting with E. coli. You will perform high-throughput genome engineering to generate diverse microbial strains and design scalable measurement strategies, working in an integrated computational and experimental team alongside AI scientists.

Escherichia coli

• Oxford
• On-site
• £40,000 pa
• Entry level
• Permanent

Postdoctoral role in the Liu Lab for Synthetic Evolution, designing and troubleshooting experiments, analysing complex data with computational and statistical tools, and publishing high-quality research. The lab invented OrthoRep for continuous accelerated gene evolution, with projects spanning antibody sequence-affinity datasets, enzyme sequence-function maps, and de novo gene function emergence. Involves mentoring junior researchers and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.

OrthoRep

• Stevenage
• Hybrid
• £119,250 – £198,750 pa
• Director

Leads model-informed drug development for oncology programmes, defining and executing model-based strategies from late pre-candidate selection through life cycle management. Conducts population PK, exposure-response and simulation-based trial design work across small molecules, biologics and antibody drug conjugates, applying AI/ML and quantitative systems pharmacology methods. Presents and defends modelling outcomes to governance boards and regulators, and contributes to protocols, analysis plans and submissions.

NONMEM · R

• Waltham, United States
• Hybrid
• £188,100 – £313,500 pa
• Director

Leads model-informed drug development for oncology programs, defining and executing model-based strategies from late discovery through lifecycle management. Conducts population PK, exposure-response, simulation-based trial design and dose selection, applying AI/ML, quantitative systems pharmacology and model-based meta-analysis. Presents to governance boards and regulators and works across matrix teams on small molecules, biologics and antibody drug conjugates.

NONMEM · R

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead

Lead formulation strategy for small molecules across drug discovery and preclinical development, designing technologies such as solid dispersions and co-crystals to improve solubility, stability and manufacturability. Work within an interdisciplinary team alongside AI/ML drug design platform groups, managing external CRO resources and authoring regulatory submissions.

ASAP

• Norwich
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Mid-level
• Contract

You will own the delivery and reporting of two live Innovate UK projects, managing plans, milestones, budgets, risks and financial claims while coordinating consortium partners, funders and scientific teams. Working closely with the CEO, CBO and researchers, you will improve how projects are planned and tracked rather than inheriting a fixed system, and support future grant applications.

Innovate UK · UKRI

• London
• On-site
• Entry level
• Permanent

Contributes to the design and execution of cellular and biochemical assays, including arrayed CRISPR perturbation screens in established cell models, and maintains primary and immortalised mammalian cell lines with sample tracking and QC. Runs phenotypic readouts such as flow cytometry, RT-qPCR and ELISA, performs data analysis and quality assurance, and reports outcomes to cross-functional project teams. Based in London wet labs within a matrixed TechBio environment.

CRISPR · Flow Cytometry · RT-qPCR +3

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Accountable to the Global Clinical Head for an indication-aligned cluster of late-phase Respiratory and Immunology studies, supervising Global Development Medical Directors and Scientist Directors. Leads cross-functional design, conduct, monitoring and data interpretation, represents the program at health authority interactions, and co-leads publication strategy.

• Buckinghamshire
• On-site
• £34,000 – £35,000 pa

Combines technical applications support with outbound sales for a Life Sciences SME supplying cell biology and recombinant protein products. You'll troubleshoot customer issues, recommend products, follow up leads and quotations, and proactively develop new business by phone and email, working in a small team.

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Mid-level

Join the model performance and scaling team to implement and optimize LLM post-training methods on frontier models, working with JAX or PyTorch, parallelism strategies and GPU architectures. You will diagnose bottlenecks in distributed training and inference, deploy low-precision methods, and collaborate with research teams to turn new methods into production systems for drug design.

JAX · PyTorch · NCCL +5

• Newcastle upon Tyne
• £48,337 – £68,817 pa
• Senior
• Contract

Lead an independent research programme in transplant immunology, focusing on kidney transplantation injury and new therapies, while collaborating with nine senior investigators and the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit. Contribute 0.2 WTE to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and PhD supervision within the Translational and Clinical Research Institute.

Transplant Biobank

• London
• Hybrid
• Junior
• Permanent

Hands-on business development role researching pharma and biotech accounts, writing outreach, and owning CRM pipeline hygiene in HubSpot. Works directly with founders and the head of sales, building sales materials and AI workflows while coordinating with the science team ahead of customer meetings.

HubSpot · LinkedIn

• Oxford
• On-site
• Director · manages people

Lead the DMPK team at Vertex's Oxford site, shaping strategy and operations while sitting on both the Global DMPK and Oxford Site leadership teams. The role directs ADME science across discovery and development programmes, partners with Medicinal Chemistry, Biology, Preclinical Safety and Clinical Pharmacology, and oversees regulatory documentation such as INDs and marketing applications. It combines deep small-molecule DMPK expertise with hiring, mentoring and resource planning.

• Uxbridge
• Director · manages people

Owns the clinical strategy for one or more neuropsychiatry programs, serving as Clinical Trial Physician and clinical point of accountability for the Clinical Development Team. Leads trial design, data interpretation, regulatory submissions and health authority interactions, with matrix leadership across global scientific teams.

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid
• £3,452 – £3,861 pm
• Contract

Develops and maintains Python and Java data pipelines that generate ChEMBL releases, plus other chemogenomics services like SureChEMBL, UniChem and ChEBI. Involves database administration, integrating external chemical databases, and collaborating with interdisciplinary scientists and engineers on curation and quality issues.

RDKit · Open Babel · InChI +7