5 jobs for “Biotech Research Scientist”
Alloy Therapeutics UK Ltd Cambridge £45,000 – £50,000 pa
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.
CureAge Therapeutics London
Lead the computationally guided design of a lipid nanoparticle delivery platform, applying chemical and biophysical principles to optimise LNP composition and formulation. Use AI-enabled chemistry, cheminformatics, predictive models and molecular modelling to prioritise formulation components, working closely with the experimental team and founding team in a small start-up.
EMBL-EBI Saffron Walden £3,452 pm
Designs and develops software and APIs for the UniProt protein data services and website, serving a global scientific community. Also handles design, maintenance and monitoring of the website's cloud infrastructure, with a focus on scalability, well-tested code and distributed big-data processing. Works in a dynamic interdisciplinary team of engineers and bioinformaticians alongside biologists.
EMBL-EBI Saffron Walden
Develops FAIR infrastructure connecting proteomics evidence (XL-MS, CF-MS, AP-MS) with structural restraints, predicted structures and integrative models. Builds data models, APIs, conversion and validation tools with PRIDE and wwPDB, extending community standards for structural interactomics and linked deposition workflows.
EMBL-EBI Saffron Walden £3,452 pm
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.
EMBL-EBI Saffron Walden £3,452 pm
Maintains microbial genomes in Ensembl, loading new annotations, coordinating releases and diagnosing data issues. Develops functional annotation and pangenome pipelines, evaluates taxon-specific annotation tools, and builds Nextflow or Snakemake workflows with Python, relational databases and HPC or cloud infrastructure.
EMBL-EBI Saffron Walden
Lead solution architecture for digital experience initiatives spanning web applications, APIs, content platforms and AI-enabled services, remaining hands-on through discovery, prototyping and architectural development. Bridge UX and engineering, translating user needs into accessible, sustainable architectures while providing technical direction and people management to the development team. Focus on LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, agents and semantic search.
