Biotechnology Jobs

• USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
• Director

Accountable for GSK R&D's enterprise portfolio of external scientific content and data licenses, including budget, forecasting, cost controls and retiring under-used sources. Manages vendor relationships and commercial terms, maintains copyright-compliant governance and user guidance, and works across scientific, procurement, legal, digital and technology teams to make licensed content AI- and text-mining-ready.

Excel · PowerPoint · Word +2

• USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• £174,750 – £291,250 pa
• Director · manages people

Leads respiratory epidemiology and real-world evidence programs that inform vaccine development, accountable for at least one asset or disease area and its Global Epidemiology Plan. Designs and oversees complex observational studies using claims, EHR and registry data, advises clinical, safety and regulatory matrix teams, and manages external partnerships and scientific dissemination. Also mentors junior epidemiologists and represents the company with regulators and at international conferences.

Electronic Health Records · Claims Data · Registries

• Oxford
• On-site
• Entry level
• Permanent

Hands-on laboratory role supporting microbiology, molecular biology, sample processing and sequencing within the Pathogen Applications Team. Involves receiving and tracking clinical samples, preparing microbial cultures, running qPCR and sequencing workflows, and maintaining QC and documentation. Suits an early-career scientist with practical lab experience in a diagnostic or high-throughput environment.

Sequencing · Oracle Cloud

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead

Owns safety assessment strategy for drug discovery projects from inception to regulatory submission, working with small molecule and biologics platforms. Designs screening cascades, authors IND packages, and manages CRO relationships for outsourced wet-lab work. Also guides development of an AI predictive toxicology platform with ML researchers.

AI/ML · AlphaFold

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

Lead all externalised drug discovery and preclinical lab operations, building and scaling a global CRO infrastructure for an AI-first drug design platform. Oversee experimental throughput, data QC and turnaround times, embed data-generation-by-design standards, and manage vendor governance, budgets and a team of CRO Scientific Leads, Operations Managers and Compound Managers.

AlphaFold · Agentic AI

• Oxford
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Develops and optimises high-throughput enzyme assays to characterise plant protein variants from AI-assisted design and evolutionary discovery. Works with computational scientists, automation engineers and roboticists to build scalable protein expression, purification and biochemical characterisation pipelines, informing protein engineering and crop yield decisions.

AI · Automation · Robotics

• Barcelona, Spain
• Hybrid
• €63,600 – €118,000 pa
• Lead · manages people

Lead and develop a team of Central Monitors, shaping central and site monitoring strategies across a global development portfolio. Oversee trial-data surveillance, risk reviews and signal detection using Central Monitoring technology, translating complex risk signals into actionable insights for Clinical Trial Teams. Partners with clinical, data and risk-surveillance teams to strengthen risk-based monitoring and Risk-Based Quality Management.

Artificial Intelligence

• London
• Hybrid
• £67,900 – £126,100 pa
• Director · manages people

Lead statistical programming for complex global clinical programs from phase I to IV, coordinating internal and external programmers and setting programming strategy with biostatisticians. Drives adoption of R packages, Shiny applications and AI-enabled tools for visualization and reproducible workflows, while managing resources and acting as functional mentor within the therapy area community.

R · Tidyverse · R Shiny +1

• 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

• Belfast
• £50,000 – £60,000 pa
• Lead · manages people

Leads a Clinical Method Development and Validation team, overseeing bioanalytical method delivery for a New Product Development programme. Provides technical leadership in a GLP-compliant lab, acting as expert in extraction techniques and optimising HPLC, UPLC and LCMSMS systems while mentoring the team.

HPLC · UPLC · LCMSMS +1

• London
• £31,695 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Supports research into how mice process odours to guide foraging behaviour, running behavioural experiments with freely moving animals and training them on olfactory tasks. The postholder also helps build and maintain data acquisition and analysis pipelines, keeps detailed experimental records, and presents findings at lab meetings. Based in a systems neuroscience group using electrophysiology, calcium imaging and computational modelling.

• Herzliya, Israel
• Lead

Drive external deal flow by building relationships across innovation hubs, universities, venture capital and corporate venture groups, then match opportunities to internal capability gaps. Own end-to-end partnership management, from screening and diligence through negotiation, vendor onboarding and contracting, while providing outside-in analysis on investment memos and assessing technical novelty.

• London
• Hybrid
• Director

Lead CMC regulatory strategy for UK-manufactured and UK-licensed mRNA products across development, registration and post-approval lifecycle. Act as primary point of contact with the MHRA, oversee submissions and manufacturing change assessments, and shape global regulatory approaches across cross-functional matrix teams.

MHRA · Generative AI

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead

Designs and builds end-to-end AI and optimisation solutions, including mathematical optimisation, modelling and simulation, for complex pharmaceutical business problems. Works in a global team of AI engineers, data scientists and software developers, visualising model outputs and championing software engineering best practices such as Python, CI/CD and testing.

CPLEX · Gurobi · SCIP +1

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

Lead a computational project studying how driver mutation clones interact with their microenvironment in chronic liver disease and liver cancer. Develop graph neural networks, transformers and generative AI methods on large-scale spatial genomics, single-cell and imaging data, embedded across the Crick and Wellcome Sanger Institute with joint supervision.

PyTorch · JAX · NumPy +2