62 jobs for “Protein Engineer”
Latent Labs London
Architect novel generative models to design functional proteins, working in an interdisciplinary team of ML researchers, protein engineers and biologists. Split roughly 90% model building and 10% self-development, spanning data curation, evaluation metrics, prototyping, cloud training/inference and wet lab testing campaigns.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Lead a flagship research programme in biological nitrogen fixation, engineering novel nitrogen-fixing systems into plants through metabolic and protein engineering. Recruit and manage a team of postdocs and PhD students, drive stage-gated translational research from lab to field, and build collaborations across EIT Oxford and commercial partners.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Develops and scales experimental platforms to test engineered protein variants for photosynthetic efficiency, photoprotection and carbon assimilation. Combines transient plant expression, molecular biology and high-throughput photosynthetic phenotyping, working with computational scientists and protein engineers to inform go/no-go decisions for crop transformation.
Latent Labs London
Work at the interface between frontier generative models and pharmaceutical/biotech customers, deploying, adapting and fine-tuning models in customer environments. Build production-grade API integrations, model-serving infrastructure and ML data pipelines, while acting as technical point of contact for partners. Combines deep ML research with customer-facing delivery in an interdisciplinary team.
Roche Basel, Switzerland
Build physics-grounded machine learning models that combine quantum chemistry with ML to predict small-molecule energetics, conformation, reactivity, binding affinity and free energy. Work in a small-molecule team within AI for Drug Discovery, creating synthetic QM datasets and deployable, scalable pipelines that feed molecular-design tools across Roche, alongside computational and experimental scientists.
Recursion Salt Lake City, United States
Develop, optimize and validate cell-based and biochemical assays for automated high-throughput screening, running workflows at scale across 384- and 1536-well formats. Work in a cross-disciplinary team with biologists, automation and data scientists, documenting methods so assays transfer reliably. A 9-month contractor role, Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm.
University of Sussex Brighton £38,784 – £46,049 pa
Investigates how phosphorylation regulates RNA polymerase II transcription, RNA processing and gene expression, combining biochemistry, structural biology, cell biology and functional genomics. The role involves maintaining mammalian cell culture, generating degron-tagged cell lines, transcriptome analyses and in vitro transcription reconstitution, with scope to develop independent ideas within a collaborative group.
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.
Lila Sciences London US$268,000 – US$384,000 pa
Conducts original computational biology research for AI safety, investigating how LLMs, specialised biological models, agents and automated laboratories combine to change what is biologically feasible. Spans protein and nucleic-acid design, cellular systems and biological delivery, translating risk judgments into dual-use policy boundaries, evaluation priorities and mitigation requirements alongside threat modellers and red-teamers.
Isomorphic Labs London
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.
Evotec Abingdon
Leads Evotec's consolidated AI Accelerator, owning machine learning, generative and agentic AI, and therapeutic hypothesis groups. Sets the AI vision and roadmap, makes build/buy/partner decisions for the AI stack, and turns proprietary multi-omics and experimental data into predictive models and reusable IP. Acts as the senior external technical voice for AI in drug discovery.
Bond Williams London £40,000 – £50,000 pa
Hands-on lab role expressing and purifying recombinant proteins using bacterial, cell-free and other systems, plus preparing buffers and reagents to precise specs. You'll run QC and release testing (SDS-PAGE, purity, activity assays), maintain batch records in an eQMS, write SOPs and support deviations and CAPAs while optimising and scaling production processes.
Basecamp Research London
Owns R&D extraction workflow development, adapting and optimising metagenomic DNA/RNA extraction methods across diverse, low-biomass and inhibitor-rich sample types, including HMW extractions for long-read sequencing. Designs controlled experiments, transfers validated methods to production and a global partner network, and works in a data-first lab environment feeding a large gene atlas.
Imperial College London London £48,246 – £58,318 pa
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.
Evotec Macclesfield
Designs and executes work plans for early drug discovery projects within a Protein Sciences team, supporting multiple projects and presenting results to clients. Hands-on role focused on recombinant protein expression using insect cell systems such as BEVS, S2 and Sf9, including construct design, baculovirus generation and troubleshooting difficult targets like membrane proteins.
