Biotechnology Jobs

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid · 1–2 days in office
• £3,452 pm
• Mid-level
• Contract

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.

React · Vue · Git +2

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid
• £4,395 pm
• Senior · manages people
• Contract

Lead solution architecture for digital experience initiatives spanning web applications, APIs, content platforms and AI-enabled services. Remain hands-on through discovery, prototyping and architectural development while providing technical direction, mentoring and people management to the development team. Bridges UX and engineering, shaping LLM, retrieval-augmented generation and agentic patterns into accessible, sustainable services.

React · Angular · Drupal +7

• Livingston
• Mid-level

Conducts site qualification, initiation, monitoring and close-out visits for a dedicated clinical trial program, ensuring GCP compliance, patient safety and data integrity. Builds relationships with investigators, resolves data queries, mentors junior staff and travels up to 40-60% within the region.

Investigator Site Files · Trial Master Files

• Reading
• Senior

Conducts site qualification, initiation, monitoring and close-out visits for a dedicated sponsor program, ensuring GCP compliance, patient safety and data integrity. Builds investigator relationships, resolves queries, maintains inspection-ready documentation and mentors junior team members, with up to 40-60% regional travel.

Investigator Site Files · Trial Master Files

• Cambridge, United States
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead

Lead the safety assessment strategy for small molecule and biologic drug discovery projects from inception to regulatory submission, designing screening cascades and mechanistic experiments. Partner with machine learning researchers to build predictive toxicology models and manage CRO relationships for outsourced wet-lab data generation, while mentoring junior team members.

KNIME · Python

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Mid-level

Join the model performance and scaling team to implement and optimize LLM post-training methods on frontier models, working with JAX or PyTorch, parallelism strategies and GPU architectures. You will diagnose bottlenecks in distributed training and inference, deploy low-precision methods, and collaborate with research teams to turn new methods into production systems for drug design.

JAX · PyTorch · NCCL +5

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Research Scientist role in the Molecular Simulations and Design team, combining generative models, physical simulation and experimental data to accelerate biomolecule design, initially enzymes. Involves developing methods such as Boltzmann samplers, long-timestep molecular dynamics, machine-learned interatomic potentials and flow matching/diffusion, with full-stack work from pre-training to design-build-test loops.

• Cambridge
• On-site
• Entry level
• Contract

Hands-on laboratory role supporting a state-of-the-art multiomics facility, running Illumina and Nanopore sequencing, bulk RNA/DNA library prep and single-cell workflows such as 10x Genomics and Parse Bio. The post also covers lab automation, instrument maintenance, SOPs, purchasing and advising researchers on experimental design within a collaborative core-facility team.

Illumina · Nanopore · 10x Genomics +3

• Oxford
• On-site
• £36,360 – £42,434 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Supports an experimental programme building predictive models of cells, maintaining mammalian cell systems and running workflows such as endogenous protein tagging, CRISPR perturbation, optical pooled screening, live-cell imaging and proteomics. Works with computational and experimental researchers, generating engineered cell models and analysing data within a collaborative lab.

CRISPR · Flow Cytometry · Immunoblotting +4

• Sheffield
• £39,560 – £48,337 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Lead the design, assembly and clinical validation of a novel dialyser prototype within the Thermofluids Group, testing with blood-mimicking fluids and human blood to assess cleaning efficiency, clotting risk and biocompatibility. Work alongside two other Research Associates covering numerical simulation and experimental fluid dynamics, in collaboration with the Medical School and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.

• Sheffield
• £39,560 – £41,885 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Contribute to a research programme analysing explanted polymeric medical devices, investigating how implant degradation, tissue responses and patient-specific factors drive complications. Establish experimental and sample-handling workflows, develop lab methods to characterise tissue and immune responses, and collaborate with academic, clinical, regulatory and patient partners including Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Cambridge.

• London
• On-site
• Entry level
• Permanent

Contributes to the design and execution of cellular and biochemical assays, including arrayed CRISPR perturbation screens in established cell models, and maintains primary and immortalised mammalian cell lines with sample tracking and QC. Runs phenotypic readouts such as flow cytometry, RT-qPCR and ELISA, performs data analysis and quality assurance, and reports outcomes to cross-functional project teams. Based in London wet labs within a matrixed TechBio environment.

CRISPR · Flow Cytometry · RT-qPCR +3

• Lancaster
• £33,002 – £37,694 pa

Support a collaborative project developing materials for sustainable agriculture, using materials preparation, characterisation and in vitro biological testing to study how material properties affect plant interactions. The post also involves prototype validation, health and safety implementation and laboratory work within a rapidly expanding chemistry department.

• London
• On-site
• Mid-level

Develops and optimises therapeutic delivery formulations, designing lab experiments to assess stability, physicochemical properties and in vitro performance. Works in a multidisciplinary biotech team, characterising formulations analytically and supporting scale-up and tech transfer towards manufacturing. Distinct for its blend of formulation science, experimental development and translational research.

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

Postdoctoral role in the Liu Lab for Synthetic Evolution, designing and troubleshooting experiments, analysing complex data with computational and statistical tools, and publishing high-quality research. The lab invented OrthoRep for continuous accelerated gene evolution, with projects spanning antibody sequence-affinity datasets, enzyme sequence-function maps, and de novo gene function emergence. Involves mentoring junior researchers and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.

OrthoRep