Biotechnology Jobs

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

Designs and troubleshoots experiments in synthetic chromosome engineering, including centromere design, mitotic segregation and meiotic recombination in mammals and plants. Involves large DNA construct assembly, cell culture, NGS, live-cell imaging and FISH, plus computational analysis, publishing, mentoring junior researchers and pursuing IP and translational opportunities.

NGS

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

Develops generative protein design models that capture enzyme dynamics and function, designing conformationally dynamic catalysts. Runs computational and statistical analyses, publishes findings, and collaborates with in vivo evolution teams across the institute. Also mentors PhD students and research assistants and pursues translational and IP opportunities.

• Oxford
• On-site
• £39,424 – £46,476 pa
• Mid-level
• Contract

Carry out research in spatial immunometabolism focused on the germinal centre reaction within the Clarke group at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology. The role involves developing new scientific techniques and experimental protocols, testing hypotheses, analysing data, contributing ideas for new projects, and providing guidance to postdocs, technicians and PhD students.

• Oxford
• On-site
• £39,424 – £47,779 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Develop novel statistical and machine learning methods for large-scale genomic, phenotypic and health data, covering areas such as genomic language models, multimodal and federated learning, and multi-ancestry methods. Implement reproducible research software, apply it to biobank-scale datasets, evaluate statistical and predictive performance, publish findings and guide junior researchers.

• London
• £47,500 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Lead an independent research project on eukaryotic cell cycle regulation in the fission yeast model, using cell biology, molecular genetics and biochemistry to study how CDK activity coordinates DNA replication, mitosis and division. The role sits in a collaborative lab and includes scope to develop new approaches and help support PhD students.

Schizosaccharomyces pombe

• London
• On-site
• £47,500 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Investigates how protein machines remodel microtubules using cryo-electron microscopy, protein reconstitution and fluorescence microscopy. As an early member of a new lab, you will shape the research programme, establish experimental approaches and develop scientific independence while working closely with the group leader.

Cryo-EM

• Guildford
• £38,448 – £46,970 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Postdoctoral role applying informatics, data science, machine learning and AI to animal health and welfare, within the vHive and Health and Biomedical Informatics Group. Involves in-silico drug repurposing, biomarker discovery from proteomics and transcriptomics, knowledge representation and stakeholder data analysis, in collaboration with industry partner Zoetis and other institutions.

R · Python

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid
• £38,570 – £49,893 pa
• Senior
• Contract

Develop and apply statistical and deep learning methods to cell-free DNA from pregnant women, calling fetal and maternal genotypes from high-coverage sequence data and building methylation-aware biomarkers for pregnancy complications. Work spans methods development, large cohort application and collaboration with international partners in a statistical genomics group.

Python · R · Unix +6

• London
• £48,246 – £58,318 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Supports the production and characterisation of recombinant proteins for molecular glue discovery, focusing on expression, purification and characterisation using mammalian cell systems. Contributes to biochemical or biophysical assay development and helps run the laboratory day to day, including equipment upkeep, consumables and waste disposal, within a multidisciplinary chemical biology and proteomics team.

HEK293 · Expi293 · Agilent Measurement Suite

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior · manages people

You will design and develop LLM applications for drug discovery, working with research scientists and engineers on model architectures, post-training, reasoning, agents and reinforcement learning. The role spans core ML research, scaling training and inference frameworks, and potentially leading standalone projects with technical mentorship.

JAX · PyTorch · TensorFlow +3

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior · manages people

Builds greenfield machine learning models and algorithms for drug discovery, designing new architectures, running experiments and scaling training and inference frameworks. Works in an interdisciplinary team of ML scientists and domain experts, with opportunities to lead projects and mentor others depending on experience.

JAX · PyTorch · TensorFlow +3

• 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

• Macclesfield
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead the design, engineering, expression, purification and characterisation of complex biologic therapeutics including monoclonal, bispecific and multispecific antibodies. Acts as biologics scientific lead on client-facing drug discovery programmes, mentoring junior scientists and shaping project strategy within a multidisciplinary Protein Sciences team.

Structural Modelling · AI-enabled Protein Engineering