Biotechnology Jobs

• Oxford
• On-site
• £40,000 pa
• Entry level
• Permanent

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.

Mass Spectrometry · Flow Cytometry · Sequencing +5

• Oxford
• On-site
• £40,000 pa
• Entry level
• Permanent

Postdoctoral role in the Liu Lab for Synthetic Evolution, designing and troubleshooting experiments, analysing complex data with computational and statistical tools, and publishing high-quality research. The lab invented OrthoRep for continuous accelerated gene evolution, with projects spanning antibody sequence-affinity datasets, enzyme sequence-function maps, and de novo gene function emergence. Involves mentoring junior researchers and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.

OrthoRep

• 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

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid
• £38,570 – £49,893 pa
• Senior
• Contract

Develop and apply statistical and deep learning methods to cell-free DNA from pregnant women, calling fetal and maternal genotypes from high-coverage sequence data and building methylation-aware biomarkers for pregnancy complications. Work spans methods development, large cohort application and collaboration with international partners in a statistical genomics group.

Python · R · Unix +6

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

You will design and develop LLM applications for drug discovery, working with research scientists and engineers on model architectures, post-training, reasoning, agents and reinforcement learning. The role spans core ML research, scaling training and inference frameworks, and potentially leading standalone projects with technical mentorship.

JAX · PyTorch · TensorFlow +3

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

Builds greenfield machine learning models and algorithms for drug discovery, designing new architectures, running experiments and scaling training and inference frameworks. Works in an interdisciplinary team of ML scientists and domain experts, with opportunities to lead projects and mentor others depending on experience.

JAX · PyTorch · TensorFlow +3

• 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

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid
• £38,570 – £49,893 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

A postdoctoral research role analysing large-scale human genetic, epigenetic and proteomic datasets, including dried blood spots, birth cohorts and cell-free DNA, to uncover the genetic basis of early-life traits and develop biomarkers for pregnancy and neonatal conditions. The work spans statistical genetics, multi-omics and methods development, with scope to tailor projects to the fellow's interests.

GitHub · Snakemake · Nextflow +1

• Newcastle upon Tyne
• £48,337 – £68,817 pa
• Senior
• Contract

Lead an independent research programme in transplant immunology, focusing on kidney transplantation injury and new therapies, while collaborating with nine senior investigators and the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit. Contribute 0.2 WTE to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and PhD supervision within the Translational and Clinical Research Institute.

Transplant Biobank

• 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

• Cambridge
• On-site
• £38,448 – £46,970 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Primarily experimental wet-lab postdoc developing programmable nucleic-acid systems that sense defined human genomic sequences and convert molecular recognition into engineered DNA outputs, with applications to genetic privacy. Based in the Department of Genetics, the role involves hands-on design, construction and troubleshooting of novel molecular systems plus quantitative analysis of assay performance to guide experimental iterations.

• Durham
• £39,560 – £46,970 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

A postdoctoral position investigating whether bacterial enzymes retain post-mortem functions that promote nutrient recycling. The researcher will combine transcriptomics, metabolomics, genetics and large-scale E. coli mutant collections to identify gene products active after death, working in Professor Martin Cann's lab within an interdisciplinary consortium spanning Durham, Edinburgh, Oxford and Cambridge.

Escherichia coli

• 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.

• 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

• Oxford
• On-site
• £40,178 – £48,700 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Conducts research characterising crosslinked proteins and lipids under a Wellcome Trust-funded grant, using proteome and lipidome methods including sample preparation, LCMS and data analysis. Manages project administration, guides junior researchers and students, and contributes to reports, publications and external seminars.

LC-MS · nanoLC-MS