Biotechnology Jobs

• Oxford
• On-site
• £39,424 – £46,476 pa
• Mid-level
• Contract

Carry out research in spatial immunometabolism focused on the germinal centre reaction within the Clarke group at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology. The role involves developing new scientific techniques and experimental protocols, testing hypotheses, analysing data, contributing ideas for new projects, and providing guidance to postdocs, technicians and PhD students.

• 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.

• York
• Hybrid
• £38,448 – £46,970 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Lead an ARIA-funded project characterising engineered lipid nanoparticles that target lung-mediated immune regulation, with a focus on macrophage-driven innate immune mechanisms. Work spans mouse models, flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy within a multi-university consortium, based at York with some remote working.

Flow Cytometry · Fluorescence Microscopy

• Edinburgh
• Mid-level · manages people

Oversee a transgenic facility producing around 100 genetically modified animal models annually, advising researchers on project design and methodologies. Lead and develop three specialist technical staff while managing cryobanks, budgets, cost-recovery and regulatory compliance. The role combines hands-on molecular biology and transgenesis expertise with operational leadership in a university-linked biomedical research setting.

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

Curate molecular interaction and macromolecular complex data from scientific literature and user depositions into the IntAct and Complex Portal knowledgebases. Work with bioinformaticians and developers to build curation workflows combining expert manual curation with AI-assisted literature mining, using ontologies and community data standards.

IntAct · Complex Portal · Gene Ontology +2

• Cambridge
• Hybrid
• £35,000 – £45,000 pa
• Mid-level

Develops FPGA and embedded firmware for high-performance data acquisition and signal processing systems used in biomedical research products. Writes VHDL for FPGA design and C for low-level hardware control, integrating with interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, USB and Ethernet. Works alongside hardware and software engineers across the full product lifecycle, with real project ownership and a progression route to senior roles.

AMD/Xilinx Vivado · Intel Quartus · USB +1

• London
• On-site
• £47,500 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Lead a research project investigating how cortical cell types respond to 3D visual stimuli, using multiphoton calcium imaging in virtual reality, correlative in situ sequencing and molecular connectomics. Combines systems and molecular neuroscience approaches, with responsibility for experiment design, data analysis in Python or MATLAB, and supervising junior staff.

Python · MATLAB

• Oxford
• On-site
• £39,424 – £47,779 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Develops cutting-edge machine learning and computer vision methods to analyse multi-omic and imaging data, identifying disease phenotypes and tissue architecture changes. Works with software engineers and data platform developers to translate research prototypes into robust, reproducible tools, bridging research and implementation.

• 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.

• Manchester
• £38,448 – £46,970 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Lead mass spectrometry-based proteomics within a Wellcome Discovery Award consortium studying microbial competition and Type VI Secretion Systems. Design and run DIA proteomics experiments, maintain timsTOF and LC instrumentation, and apply R-based analysis pipelines, publishing findings as lead or co-author.

timsTOF HT · timsTOF Ultra AIP · Liquid Chromatography +1

• Guildford
• £38,448 – £46,970 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Postdoctoral role applying informatics, data science, machine learning and AI to animal health and welfare, within the vHive and Health and Biomedical Informatics Group. Involves in-silico drug repurposing, biomarker discovery from proteomics and transcriptomics, knowledge representation and stakeholder data analysis, in collaboration with industry partner Zoetis and other institutions.

R · Python

• Remote Opportunity - United States
• Remote
• Lead

Join a cross-functional team of scientists, engineers and drug hunters advancing frontier AI research and end-to-end applications across drug discovery, design and translation. Work spans large datasets, multimodal models and a unifying biomedical world model bridging virtual patient and virtual cell, with rapid iteration in an AI-native TechBio environment.

• Remote Opportunity - United States
• Remote
• Senior

Join a cross-functional team of scientists, engineers and drug hunters advancing frontier AI research and end-to-end applications across drug discovery, design and translation. Work spans large datasets, multimodal models and virtual cell/virtual patient concepts within one of biopharma's largest AI compute clusters.

AI Compute Clusters

• Oxford
• On-site
• Entry level
• Permanent

Design and conduct experiments on nanopore technologies, single-molecule analysis, and 3D tissue engineering, spanning chemistry, biology, physics and engineering. Postdocs lead development of emerging biotech methods, publish impactful research, and mentor junior researchers within a 100+ researcher institute.

3D Printing

• Taunton
• On-site
• £49,387 – £56,515 pa
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Lead a team of Biomedical Scientists and support staff across Bacteriology, Parasitology, Virology, Molecular and Mycology, rotating through all areas. Responsibilities include training, appraisals, quality management, policy development, clinical trials and senior management on-call, with lone working on evening and weekend shifts.

LIMS · Q-Pulse · Kiestra