Latest research scientist Jobs

Infrastructure Engineer

This role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable IT infrastructure across on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and cloud environments. The Infrastructure Engineer will support core services including servers, storage, virtualisation, backup, and disaster recovery, with a focus on enabling enterprise applications, scientific research, and AI workloads. Collaboration with cybersecurity, network, and software engineering teams ensures resilient and automated infrastructure solutions.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Laboratory Technician (Transformation) - Plant Biology Institute

This role involves executing and optimising plant transformation and regeneration workflows, with a focus on improving protocol efficiency and troubleshooting issues across diverse crops and genotypes. The technician will lead quality control, train junior staff, and collaborate closely with scientists to scale laboratory processes. Work takes place in a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary environment integrating plant science with AI and automation.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Director, Clinical Operations Asset Lead

Leads clinical operations strategy and execution across the full lifecycle of a drug development asset, ensuring high-quality, compliant, and efficient delivery of global clinical trials. Works cross-functionally to shape development plans, manage risk, and align operational delivery with scientific and regulatory goals. Provides strategic leadership to study teams and represents clinical operations at senior governance levels.

GSK

Director, Clinical Operations Asset Lead

Leads clinical operations for a key asset across its full lifecycle, setting the operational strategy and ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery of clinical studies. Works cross-functionally to align study execution with scientific and regulatory goals, driving innovation and efficiency while managing risks and stakeholder engagement. Serves as the primary accountability point for clinical operations within global governance structures.

GSK €119,250 – €198,750 pa

Media and Glass Technician - Generative Biology Institute

This role involves preparing laboratory media, buffers, and agar plates while maintaining sterile glassware and consumables to support high-quality research at the Generative Biology Institute. The technician ensures consistent, contamination-free supplies using aseptic techniques and standard operating procedures, enabling scientists to focus on engineering biology breakthroughs. The position emphasizes precision, routine quality control, equipment operation, and collaboration within a dedicated support team in a state-of-the-art research environment.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Vector Design Lead - Plant Biology Institute

This role leads the design and delivery of transformation-ready vectors and genome editing reagents for crop improvement programs, focusing on molecular construct development for gene editing and transgenic approaches in species like corn and wheat. The position establishes industrial-grade design standards, ensures technical robustness and regulatory alignment, and integrates with high-throughput transformation pipelines. It involves close collaboration with genotyping, automation, and commercial teams to enable scalable, traceable, and auditable vector development from concept to release.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Genotyping and Event Delivery Manager - Plant Biology Institute

This role leads the molecular confirmation and genotyping of gene-edited and transgenic crop events, ensuring high-quality, data-rich handover to downstream teams. The candidate will establish stage-gate criteria, manage genotyping workflows across multiple technologies, and integrate with transformation, bioinformatics, and trait discovery teams. The position is central to building a scalable, industrial-grade pipeline for crop development in species such as corn and wheat.

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

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

Director, Clinical Operations Asset Lead

Leads clinical operations for a key asset across its full lifecycle, setting the operational strategy and ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery of clinical studies. Works cross-functionally to align study design with strategic goals, manage vendor and resourcing strategy, and maintain inspection readiness. Serves as the primary escalation point for operational and quality issues, driving governance and risk management.

GSK

Hybrid Permanent

Director, Clinical Operations Asset Lead

The Clinical Operations Asset Lead is responsible for the strategic and operational delivery of clinical trials across the full asset lifecycle. This role involves setting and executing the program-level operational strategy, leading cross-functional teams, and ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery of clinical studies.

GSK £189,750 – £316,250 pa

Director, Global Health Outcomes, ViiV Healthcare

This role involves leading the design and delivery of robust evidence for HIV treatment and prevention medicines. Responsibilities include shaping health economics and outcomes research strategies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring evidence meets regulatory and payer requirements.

GSK United Kingdom

Global Study Manager

The Global Study Manager role involves leading the operational delivery of clinical studies from initiation to archiving, ensuring timelines, quality, and budget adherence. Key responsibilities include crafting delivery plans, leading the Operational Working Group, and collaborating with the Global Study Lead to achieve study deliverables. The role emphasizes innovation, risk management, and stakeholder communication.

GSK Stevenage, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Director, Real World Data Platform and Portfolio Lead

This role involves leading and executing strategic partnerships for Real World Data (RWD) to support GSK's R&D and commercial activities. Responsibilities include building and managing RWD partnerships, ensuring data access and analysis, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to maximize the value of RWD in decision-making and evidence generation.

GSK Stevenage, United Kingdom