Latest Genetic Engineering Jobs

(Fixed-Term) GMP Engineering Specialist

Serve as engineering owner for GMP manufacturing equipment at Moderna's Harwell facility, supporting the Norwood (MA) network. Provide hands-on floor support, troubleshoot complex mechanical and process issues, lead CAPAs and change controls, and drive continuous improvement and tech transfer for mRNA production. Requires close cross-functional work with equipment SMEs and end users.

Moderna Oxford

On-site Temporary Clearance Required

(Fixed-Term) GMP Engineering Specialist

Serve as engineering owner for GMP manufacturing equipment such as ultrafiltration, chromatography, mixers and fermenters, providing hands-on floor support and troubleshooting in a regulated biotech environment. Drive issue resolution, CAPAs, change controls and continuous improvement while supporting tech transfer and operational readiness for mRNA manufacturing.

Moderna Drug Manufacturing

On-site Temporary Clearance Required

Programme/Project Manager

Client-facing programme manager role setting up and embedding a multidisciplinary delivery team around a major pharma partnership, running the integrated delivery plan, milestones, dependencies, risks and resourcing. Coordinates across Science, Data, Engineering, Finance, Legal and People stakeholders, running status meetings, reporting and escalations with the partner. Structured as a six-month engagement with an immediate start.

Genomics London

Hybrid Permanent

Process Engineer, Drug Substance Development

Practical laboratory-based role developing and scaling up pharmaceutical processes for small molecules and oligonucleotides, working alongside chemists and material scientists. Combines digital, data and analytics with process simulation and modelling, and provides global engineering support during tech transfer to pilot plants and manufacturing sites.

GSK Stevenage

Analyst, AI ML and Cloud Security

Supports AI platform and data fabric workstreams by configuring environments, documenting build outputs and CI/CD pipelines, and writing Python automation for pipeline health monitoring. Builds and runs test cases for AI components, including prompt-injection and regression tests, working to architecture specs under senior engineers.

GSK London

Hybrid

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Chin Lab) - Generative Biology Institute

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.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford

On-site Permanent

(Senior) Group Leader, Advanced Genome Technologies - Plant Biology Institute

Lead a flagship research programme in advanced genome technologies, focusing on novel plant transformation, regeneration and DNA/RNA delivery systems. Build and manage an interdisciplinary team of group leaders, postdocs and PhD students, driving stage-gated projects and translating findings into commercial and IP opportunities.

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford

On-site Permanent

Lead In Silico Business Partner, Platform

Acts as the single front door between Evotec's Drug Discovery Platforms and the global In Silico & AI organisation, owning demand, relationships and the in silico roadmap. Translates platform science needs across DMPK, ADME/Tox, predictive safety, screening and omics into prioritised AI requirements, then orchestrates delivery across capability units. Carries a commercial mandate, contributing to client proposals, pricing and evidencing value such as margin uplift and cycle time.

Evotec Abingdon

Permanent

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription

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.

University of Sussex Brighton £38,784 – £46,049 pa

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Associate Director, Computational Biology – Early Discovery

Lead a team of computational biologists in early discovery, acting as a player-coach who balances hands-on analysis with mentorship. Integrate phenomics, transcriptomics, genomics and proteomics data to nominate oncology and immunology targets, define validation criteria and precision medicine strategies, partnering with biologists, engineers and translational experts.

Recursion Salt Lake City, United States US$200,000 – US$220,500 pa

Hybrid

Senior Computational Biologist – Early Discovery Immunology

Integrate phenomics, transcriptomics, genomics and proteomics data to nominate novel targets and validate immunology and inflammation disease biology, piloting new methods for target discovery and early patient population hypotheses. Partner cross-functionally with biologists, chemists, data scientists and engineers to build data packages that drive program milestones and investment decisions.

Recursion New York, United States US$151,800 – US$220,660 pa

Hybrid

Laboratory Research Scientist

Join a large-scale project probing how small molecules affect survival of the Gram-negative pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae, part of the international Gr-ADI antibacterial discovery programme. Day to day you will perform molecular biology and microbiology experiments, support high-throughput phenotypic screening, prepare sequencing libraries and plates, and analyse data. Suited to an early-career scientist seeking hands-on experience in molecular microbiology, screening and data analysis within a collaborative research institute.

Francis Crick Institute London £36,535 pa

On-site Contract

Postdoctoral Fellow

Lead a Wellcome-funded project defining the regulatory architecture of the SLFN11 pathway in replication stress tolerance, running arrayed genome-wide CRISPR screens with a GFP-based reporter and high-content imaging of tagged SLFN11. Validate hits in gene-edited cell lines and integrate proteomic and PTM datasets, while guiding PhD students and collaborating with the Crick's High Throughput Screening platform.

Francis Crick Institute London £47,500 pa

On-site Contract

Senior Scientist

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.

Genomics London

Hybrid Permanent

PhD Studentship: Rare variant functional genomics for better understanding, prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders

A cross-institutional PhD studentship analysing whole genome sequencing data from millions of individuals across UK Biobank, All of Us and Our Future Health to identify rare causal variants for musculoskeletal disorders, then functionally validating them in human cell and tissue models using CRISPR-Cas9, transcriptomics and cellular phenotyping. Split between computational genomics at Exeter and laboratory work at Oxford, it develops a dual skill set in statistical genetics and experimental validation.

University of Exeter Exeter

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