43 jobs for “Biotech Research Scientist”
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.
Basecamp Research London
Owns the peptide and protein platform as a commercial product, spanning market and competitive intelligence, target product profiles, roadmap and packaging decisions, and go-to-market positioning. Sits between model, data and science teams and business development, and is accountable for partner engagement and revenue generation. Requires deep peptide therapeutics and licensing deal expertise.
Basecamp Research London
Runs a high-throughput sample processing pipeline, performing DNA extraction, normalisation and library preparation on soil, faecal and other environmental samples. Operates automated liquid handling platforms such as Myra9, logs everything in Benchling LIMS, and carries out QC checks while supporting R&D protocol testing in a CL2 lab.
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.
Relation Therapeutics London
Senior project manager role coordinating a multi-year osteoporosis drug discovery programme across target ID, hit-to-lead, lead optimisation and candidate selection. Involves orchestrating matrixed wet lab, ML, data science and engineering teams plus CROs, managing plans, budgets, risks and governance, and translating scientific objectives into integrated timelines and milestones.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Manchester
Conducts multiple ongoing clinical trials, handling informed consent, screening, vital signs, ECGs and protocol procedures while ensuring subject safety and accurate data capture. Engages across site operations including recruitment, enrolment and retention, working with research site and interdepartmental teams under FDA/GCP and ICH regulations.
Fortrea Maidenhead
Monitors clinical trials across the UK under a risk-based model, covering oncology and haematology studies plus neuroscience, cell and gene therapies and other therapeutic areas. Requires at least six months of independent monitoring experience and involves 8+ on-site days per month, working with multiple protocols for biotech and biopharma sponsors.
Danaher Portsmouth
Responsible for new product development and improvement projects for hardware and disposable devices used in the biotech industry, taking initiatives from spec definition through design, testing and validation to manufacturing transfer. Provides technical leadership on complex engineering challenges, applies 3D CAD design, manages project plans and resources, and reports progress to leadership. On-site role with up to 20% international travel.
Newton Colmore Cambridge
Design, build and test the hardware of a novel biotech manufacturing device, working with 3D CAD (ideally SOLIDWORKS) alongside physicists, scientists, electronics and design engineers. The role spans proof of concept through development and testing of complex electro-mechanical, mechatronic or precision technology, with exposure to third-party meetings and industry conferences.
Nuclera Cambridge
Formulate, dispense and quality-control reagents for a protein discovery platform, operating lab equipment such as pipettes, centrifuges and UPLC systems. The role covers batch documentation, inventory management via ERP and troubleshooting production deviations, working closely with R&D, QA and Supply Chain in a fast-paced lab environment.
Nuclera Cambridge
Full-stack engineer building customer-facing cloud and instrument software plus internal tools supporting in-house protein screening services. Owns features end to end, from gathering requirements with biologists and stakeholders through technical design, implementation and testing across backend, frontend, dev-ops and QA.
ProTech Recruitment Ltd Dorking £45,000 – £55,000 pa
Owns product quality issues in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, leading root cause investigations and corrective actions using 8D, 5 Whys, Fishbone, FMEA and SPC. Works closely with Engineering, Production and Supply Chain on continuous improvement, defect prevention, new product introduction and engineering change reviews, with ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 compliance in a regulated setting.
Genomics London
Drive innovation as a strategic consultant on high-impact drug discovery projects with external pharma and biotech partners. Navigate the full development pipeline from target discovery to patient stratification, applying statistical human genetics and large-scale genomic data analysis in R or Python. Partner-facing role translating complex findings into actionable insights.
Newton Colmore Cambridge
Lead the design and development of next-generation drug delivery devices, guiding multidisciplinary teams of engineers, scientists and designers from early-stage concepts through to manufacturable solutions. The role blends hands-on R&D work — concept generation, prototyping, experimental design, verification planning and risk management — with client-facing consultancy, programme leadership and mentoring of junior colleagues.
Moderna London
Leads CMC regulatory strategy for global submissions including IND, CTA, BLA and MAA, and oversees agency correspondence and compliance for mRNA products. Reviews submissions for readiness, drives health authority interactions, and advises manufacturing and quality teams on change controls and regulatory guidance across vaccines, oncology and rare disease programmes.
