Biotechnology Jobs

• Cambridge, United States
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior · manages people

Lead in vitro and cellular pharmacology strategy for small-molecule drug design programs, defining screening cascades and guiding biophysical, biochemical and cell-based assays from hit identification to candidate selection. Bridge computational AI/ML predictions with laboratory validation, managing CRO partnerships and collaborating with chemistry, structural biology and translational teams.

SPR · ITC · CRO

• Cambridge, United States
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior · manages people

Designs and implements translational strategies for small molecule oncology and immunology programs, from early discovery through candidate selection and clinical phase. Oversees CRO activities, PK/PD and safety assessments, and biomarker strategies, bridging computational predictions with laboratory validation. Some roles include managing 2-3 in vivo pharmacologists.

Machine Learning · AlphaFold

• Boston, United States
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• £174,750 – £320,375 pa
• Director · manages people

Leads respiratory epidemiology and real-world evidence programs that inform vaccine development, designing and overseeing complex studies on disease burden, treatment patterns and safety. Partners across clinical development, safety, regulatory and health outcomes, manages external collaborations, and mentors junior scientists. Hybrid role requiring on-site presence at least two days per week.

• London
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• £123,000 – £205,000 pa
• Director · manages people

Leads respiratory epidemiology and real-world evidence programmes that inform vaccine development, designing and overseeing complex studies on disease burden, treatment patterns and safety. Partners with clinical development, safety, regulatory and external collaborators, and mentors junior staff. Requires deep RWE and pharmaco-epidemiology expertise in a global, matrixed environment.

• London
• On-site
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Owns the end-to-end sample-to-sequence pipeline for the Trillion Gene Atlas, spanning DNA extraction, library prep and sequencing dispatch across Phase 1 and Phase 2. Bridges R&D and production by scaling validated protocols, applying Lean/Six Sigma to improve throughput, and leading a small lab team while monitoring data return with bioinformatics partners.

Illumina · Ultima · PacBio +3

• London
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Founding designer role owning all design at a biotech automation startup, from research and concepting through testing to pixel-perfect UI, plus defining company-wide design systems. Works closely with founders, product teams and lab biologists on software for setting up experiments, managing cell batches in real time and analysing data.

Figma

• London
• On-site
• Senior

Owns all aspects of hardware design for automated cell-production machines, from concept through to manufacture, improving robustness and reliability. Leads development of systems interfacing with optics and fluidics, refines test rigs and quality processes, and helps shape engineering culture. Based on-site in the lab at Imperial College's White City innovation hub.

Arduino · Raspberry Pi · Adafruit +1

• London
• Hybrid
• Junior
• Permanent

Hands-on business development role researching pharma and biotech accounts, writing outreach, and owning CRM pipeline hygiene in HubSpot. Works directly with founders and the head of sales, building sales materials and AI workflows while coordinating with the science team ahead of customer meetings.

HubSpot · LinkedIn

• Cambridge
• £71,200 – £113,200 pa
• Senior · manages people

Leads day-to-day operations of a genomics hub, managing NGS workflows such as RNAseq, ATACseq and single cell genomics, plus SOPs, data management, equipment and budgets. Provides hands-on wet lab guidance and acts as subject matter expert on experimental design while training and supervising technical staff.

• London
• Director · manages people
• Permanent

Lead the team behind hybrid on-prem and cloud compute infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and scientific compute environments supporting ML and drug discovery. Own platform strategy, CI/CD maturity, observability, and security controls for sensitive patient-derived data, reporting to the VP of Engineering.

Kubernetes · Kubeflow · GPU Compute +3

• Uxbridge
• Director · manages people

Owns the clinical strategy for one or more neuropsychiatry programs, serving as Clinical Trial Physician and clinical point of accountability for the Clinical Development Team. Leads trial design, data interpretation, regulatory submissions and health authority interactions, with matrix leadership across global scientific teams.

• 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

• 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

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• £4,395 pm
• Lead · manages people
• Contract

Lead the scientific data programme behind FENIX, a unified platform for archiving and exploring functional genomics datasets. You will line manage bioinformaticians and curators, own data standards and quality controls, and guide reproducible Nextflow workflow development while acting as principal scientific liaison with teams such as ENA, Ensembl and UniProt.

Nextflow · Python · R +7

• Oxford
• Hybrid · 3–4 days in office
• Senior
• Permanent

Develops, validates and runs ligand-binding and cell-based bioanalytical assays generating pharmacodynamic and immunogenicity data for clinical mRNA programmes. Works in a GcLP-regulated lab using Thermo Watson LIMS and electronic notebooks, handling clinical samples, critical reagents, SOPs and validation reports while partnering with Clinical Operations and Sample Management.

Thermo Watson LIMS · Watson LIMS · LabVantage eLBN +1