Biotechnology Jobs

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior

Join a newly formed LLM Engineering team to architect, build and own scalable, secure infrastructure bringing large language models into scientific and business workflows. Work spans system design, agentic tooling, RAG, evaluation frameworks and fine-tuning, partnering closely with AI researchers and drug discovery experts.

vLLM · MCP · GCP

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior

Lead the hardening and scaling of an inference platform serving fleets of cutting-edge ML models for scientific applications. Set strategy and roadmaps, architect next-generation services to solve scaling limits, and partner with research, product and operations teams to align infrastructure with biotech R&D cycles.

Kubernetes · Google Cloud Platform · NVIDIA GPU +1

• Cambridge
• US$205,425 – US$342,375 pa
• Lead · manages people

Senior technical authority leading GSK's Forward Deployed Engineering function, setting enterprise standards for AI-native development while owning delivery outcomes for a portfolio of strategic business units. Stays hands-on across architecture, ML and agentic engineering, leading Staff and Senior FDEs on precedent-setting engagements and acting as escalation point for the hardest technical decisions.

Claude Code · GitHub Copilot · Databricks AI Assistant +4

• London
• Hybrid · 2–3 days in office
• Senior

Embedded with Chemical Manufacturing & Control teams, you take high-priority use cases from problem framing to working prototypes at days-to-weeks cadence, then hand proven solutions to a Solutions Engineer for scale-up. Work is AI-augmented: agent frameworks, multi-agent orchestration, MCP, and AI coding assistants are the default mode of building, turning manual lab and process workflows into agentic automation.

Claude Code · GitHub Copilot · Databricks AI Assistant +3

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Design and develop novel computational algorithms and AI/ML methods for translating metagenomic sequencing data into clinically actionable results, covering taxonomic classification and antimicrobial resistance. Validate and benchmark methods on public and internal datasets, then work with bioinformaticians and software engineers to embed them in scalable, reproducible workflows for an infectious disease diagnostic product.

Oracle Cloud · Long-Read Sequencing

• Oxford
• On-site
• Permanent

Develop and apply computational methods to analyse complex plant genomes, building pipelines for genome assembly, annotation and variant analysis. Work closely with bioinformatics engineers and research scientists to translate biological questions into reproducible workflows and prioritise targets for crop engineering.

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid
• £3,452 – £3,861 pm
• Contract

Develops and maintains Python and Java data pipelines that generate ChEMBL releases, plus other chemogenomics services like SureChEMBL, UniChem and ChEBI. Involves database administration, integrating external chemical databases, and collaborating with interdisciplinary scientists and engineers on curation and quality issues.

RDKit · Open Babel · InChI +7

• Milton Keynes
• Remote
• £37,500 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Provide first-line remote technical support for specialist laboratory analysers and medical devices, diagnosing faults using remote-access tools such as RDP, VNC and augmented reality. Work with laboratory staff, field service engineers and product specialists to resolve issues and minimise on-site visits, while training users and maintaining service records.

RDP · VNC · Augmented Reality

• London
• On-site
• Senior

Owns all aspects of hardware design for automated cell-production machines, from concept through to manufacture, improving robustness and reliability. Leads development of systems interfacing with optics and fluidics, refines test rigs and quality processes, and helps shape engineering culture. Based on-site in the lab at Imperial College's White City innovation hub.

Arduino · Raspberry Pi · Adafruit +1

• Stevenage
• Hybrid
• £26,000 – £40,000 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Field-based role installing, maintaining and servicing nano-flow cytometry instruments at customer sites across the UK and Europe, plus remote phone and email troubleshooting of hardware, software and reagents. Involves preventative maintenance scheduling, service documentation, spare parts inventory and coordinating service contracts with the sales team, following training with senior technical staff.

Nano-flow Cytometry · nFCM

• London
• Hybrid
• Entry level
• Internship

A 12-month industrial placement within an international Data, Technology and Engineering team, focused on scaling responsible AI adoption, supporting product teams with backlog refinement and delivery, and translating business needs into user stories and requirements. Includes planning an Early Talent Hackathon and business analysis across a regulated biotech environment.

AI Tools

• Cambridge
• On-site
• £45,000 – £50,000 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

Design and build large-scale synthetic gene loci and transgenic platforms for antibody discovery, using CRISPR/Cas9, RMCE and site-specific integrases. Hands-on molecular biology including PCR, NGS, plasmid construction and flow-cytometric immunophenotyping, within a small multidisciplinary team working from dry-lab design to wet-lab validation.

CRISPR/Cas9 · Recombinase-Mediated Cassette Exchange · Bxb1 +3

• Glasgow
• £39,906 – £46,049 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Develops high-throughput Python workflows to analyse coarse-grained molecular-dynamics simulations of engineered protein assemblies, extracting geometric, topological and structural descriptors such as curvature, lumen dimensions and packing order. Builds structure-property relationships and reusable, version-controlled pipelines feeding predictive and active-learning models, within an interdisciplinary team spanning computational chemistry, machine learning, protein science and engineering.

Martini · GROMACS · VMD +2

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

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.

AlphaFold · NeurIPS · ICML +1

• London
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Founding designer role owning all design at a biotech automation startup, from research and concepting through testing to pixel-perfect UI, plus defining company-wide design systems. Works closely with founders, product teams and lab biologists on software for setting up experiments, managing cell batches in real time and analysing data.

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