98 jobs for “Sustainable Manufacturing”
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford £40,000 pa
Develops generative protein design models that capture enzyme dynamics and function, designing conformationally dynamic catalysts. Runs computational and statistical analyses, publishes findings, and collaborates with in vivo evolution teams across the institute. Also mentors PhD students and research assistants and pursues translational and IP opportunities.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Supports the smooth operation of research laboratories through cleaning, equipment maintenance, calibration and inventory management of reagents and consumables. Acts as point of contact for external servicing visits, handles and transports biological samples, and helps maintain health and safety compliance including waste disposal and temperature-sensitive storage.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford £40,000 pa
Postdoctoral researchers design and execute experiments within the Generative Biology Institute, working at the interface of biology, technology and engineering to make biology engineerable. The role involves contributing to high-impact publications and mentoring junior researchers and students, supported by technology hubs for sequencing, imaging, automation and substantial compute resources. Positions span multiple research groups at a new Oxford Science Park facility.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Builds and leads a molecular biology and synthetic biology function within a plant science institute, setting technical strategy for high-throughput assays, sequencing-based readouts, CRISPR guide design and multiplex editing. Acts as a responsive core facility, coaching scientists on experimental design and integrating with bioinformatics, tissue culture and phenotyping teams. Combines deep technical direction with people leadership rather than routine bench work.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Hands-on bench role executing microbial culture, identification, biobanking and broth microdilution antimicrobial susceptibility testing under BSL-2 conditions, compliant with EUCAST/CLSI guidelines. Works within a highly automated reference laboratory integrating robotics and data systems, with scope to help design and optimise high-throughput workflows alongside microbiologists, genomics scientists and automation engineers.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Forward-deployed data engineer embedded with research teams across AI, robotics, biology and pathogen surveillance, turning raw scientific data into reproducible, version-controlled datasets ready for ML. Owns ingestion, storage, curation and transformation of diverse formats (tabular, text, LMDB/Arrow/HDF5, fastq/fasta, cif) and packages pipelines with Docker, Kubernetes, Slurm, Spark or Ray.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Build and oversee plant growth and phenotyping facilities, ensuring controlled, reproducible environments in growth chambers and greenhouses. Hands-on player-coach role covering planting, irrigation, pollination, sampling and harvest, plus pest and pathogen management, GMO compliance and phenotype data capture. Also shapes field trial operations and future team hiring.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Lead a flagship plant biotechnology research programme focused on photosynthesis, carbon assimilation and nitrogen fixation to boost crop yields and cut inputs. You will coach and oversee Group Leaders, run your own independent research, recruit scientists and postdocs, and drive stage-gated projects toward commercial and IP impact within a rapidly scaling institute.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
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.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Establish an automated, image-based phenotypic screening platform for plant cells, designing high-throughput assays and fluorescence reporter systems. Build reproducible image acquisition and analysis pipelines covering segmentation, feature extraction and phenotypic classification, working with automation and AI teams on scalable workflows.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
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.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Designs and executes molecular biology experiments in plant biotechnology, working to stage-gated milestones and contributing to publications and IP generation. Collaborates with cross-functional teams and EIT experts in AI, automation and generative biology, with a focus on translating research into commercial solutions.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Designs, builds and operates a secure, highly available Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform supporting enterprise applications, scientific research and AI workloads. Works with Infrastructure, Cyber Security and Software Engineering teams, using Terraform, Git-based CI/CD and cloud-native practices to deliver automation, monitoring, security controls and cost optimisation.
Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Postdoctoral role in the Zuercher Lab at the Generative Biology Institute, working on genome synthesis and genetic isolation. Involves designing and troubleshooting experiments, analysing complex datasets with computational and statistical tools, publishing papers, and mentoring junior researchers. Based at Oxford Science Park in a new bespoke facility.
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.
