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

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

Develops and maintains Python and Java data pipelines that generate ChEMBL releases, plus other chemogenomics services like SureChEMBL, UniChem and ChEBI. Involves database administration, integrating external chemical databases, and collaborating with interdisciplinary scientists and engineers on curation and quality issues.

RDKit · Open Babel · InChI +7

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid · 1–2 days in office
• £3,452 pm
• Mid-level
• Contract

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.

React · Vue · Git +2

• 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.

• Belgium-Wavre
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• €123,000 – €205,000 pa
• Director · manages people

Leads respiratory epidemiology and real-world evidence programs that inform vaccine development, owning the epidemiology plan for at least one asset or disease area. Designs and oversees complex observational studies using claims, EHR and registry data, advises clinical, safety and regulatory teams, and manages external partnerships while mentoring junior scientists.

Electronic Health Records · Claims Data · Registries

• Oxford
• Remote
• £60,000 – £80,000 pa

Serve as the primary scientific resource for customers after instrument installation, guiding onboarding, training and advanced fluorescence imaging workflows. Troubleshoot sample preparation, image acquisition and data analysis issues, build training materials, and feed customer insights to product teams. Remote-based with around 25% travel across the UK and Europe for installations.

• London
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Serves as connective tissue across Global Research, Data Science and Science teams, coordinating external sequencing vendors, research partnerships and publication timelines. Owns cross-functional process improvement and tooling oversight, ensuring training data stays synchronised with frontier AI model releases. Reports to the VP of Global Research with dotted-line alignment to the Founding TPM.

Project Management Systems · Lab Management Systems · Data Systems

• London
• On-site
• Entry level
• Permanent

Contributes to the design and execution of cellular and biochemical assays, including arrayed CRISPR perturbation screens in established cell models, and maintains primary and immortalised mammalian cell lines with sample tracking and QC. Runs phenotypic readouts such as flow cytometry, RT-qPCR and ELISA, performs data analysis and quality assurance, and reports outcomes to cross-functional project teams. Based in London wet labs within a matrixed TechBio environment.

CRISPR · Flow Cytometry · RT-qPCR +3

• Oxford
• On-site
• Senior

Sole-contributor scientist role developing and executing biochemical and molecular biology assays for PK/PD analysis, spanning genomic DNA/RNA isolation, qPCR, ddPCR, RNA sequencing, MSD, ELISA and immunoblotting. Works within Moderna's Clinical Bioanalytical team at Harwell, Oxfordshire, ensuring GcLP-compliant assay qualification and validation, troubleshooting with external CRO partners, and building internal and external mRNA-based bioanalytical capability.

MSD · LIMS · eLNB +1

• London
• On-site
• Permanent

Runs a high-throughput sample processing pipeline, performing DNA extraction, normalisation and library preparation on soil, faecal and other environmental samples. Operates automated liquid handling platforms such as Myra9, logs everything in Benchling LIMS, and carries out QC checks while supporting R&D protocol testing in a CL2 lab.

Benchling · Myra9 · Hamilton +2

• Cambridge
• Senior

Acts as subject matter expert for stem cell culture technologies, leading development, optimisation and delivery of cellular systems for drug discovery. Manages multiple cell culture programmes, supplies high-quality cell batches for high-throughput screening, and troubleshoots assays while ensuring biological safety compliance. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams and external partners across global sites.

Automated Liquid Handling Platforms · High-Throughput Screening

• London
• Hybrid · 2–3 days in office
• Junior

Contribute across a full-stack cloud product and IoT devices that interface with hardware automating human cell production. Work spans TypeScript, React, GraphQL frontends and Node.js/PostgreSQL backends, with cross-disciplinary collaboration alongside hardware engineers and biologists, including testing on prototype machines in the lab.

React · TypeScript · GraphQL +7

• 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
• 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