Biotechnology Jobs

• London
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead research on the capabilities and risks of biological AI systems, designing evaluations, red-teaming studies and threat models, and developing safeguards across training, model behaviour and access. Work within the frontier model team with access to proprietary genomic data and biological expertise, shaping research priorities and publishing where appropriate.

EDEN · BaseData

• Stevenage
• Hybrid
• Director

Leads acquisition, integration and analysis of large-scale cancer multi-omic and clinical datasets to drive translational decisions and support the oncology pipeline. Partners with biologists, clinicians, AI/ML engineers and statisticians, building reproducible data pipelines and informatics infrastructure, with mentoring responsibilities in a hybrid team.

Cloud Platforms

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

Experienced medicinal chemists lead portfolio drug discovery projects from initiation to clinical candidate selection, working as Project Lead or Medicinal Chemistry Lead. They partner closely with ML scientists to refine the AI drug design platform, manage CRO resources, and may line-manage teams of 2-4 chemists.

AlphaFold

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

Lead computational drug design programs from hit identification through candidate selection, applying AI/ML to cheminformatics workflows and shaping the internal drug design engine. Roles span Program Lead or Computational Chemistry Lead, with some positions managing 2-3 computational chemists in a hybrid Cambridge, MA team.

REINVENT · AlphaFold

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid · 1–2 days in office
• Senior
• Temporary

Combines hands-on development of production bioinformatics services like Job Dispatcher with scientific and technical leadership, shaping product strategy, roadmaps and backlog priorities. Works with scientists, engineers and infrastructure teams on HPC, Nextflow, SLURM and containerised tools, and represents services in committee meetings.

Job Dispatcher · FiRE · Angular +7

• 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

• USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• £174,750 – £291,250 pa
• Director · manages people

Leads respiratory epidemiology and real-world evidence programs that inform vaccine development, accountable for at least one asset or disease area and its Global Epidemiology Plan. Designs and oversees complex observational studies using claims, EHR and registry data, advises clinical, safety and regulatory matrix teams, and manages external partnerships and scientific dissemination. Also mentors junior epidemiologists and represents the company with regulators and at international conferences.

Electronic Health Records · Claims Data · Registries

• Cambridge
• On-site
• Entry level
• Contract

Hands-on laboratory role supporting a state-of-the-art multiomics facility, running Illumina and Nanopore sequencing, bulk RNA/DNA library prep and single-cell workflows such as 10x Genomics and Parse Bio. The post also covers lab automation, instrument maintenance, SOPs, purchasing and advising researchers on experimental design within a collaborative core-facility team.

Illumina · Nanopore · 10x Genomics +3

• Cambridge
• Senior

Leads stem cell-focused drug discovery projects, designing and optimising human iPSC-derived models, 2D/3D assays and disease models, and applying New Approach Methodologies to client programmes. Partners directly with pharmaceutical and biotech clients, presenting data and shaping project strategy, while mentoring colleagues and contributing to proposals and capability development.

Organoids · Spheroid systems · Co-culture models +4

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Acts as subject-matter expert for the organisation's ELN platform, owning its configuration, governance and continuous improvement across R&D laboratories. Builds workflows, templates and integrations, supports superusers, and leads development of a centralised Technical Development data repository using SQL and analytics to enable data-driven scientific decisions.

Benchling · JMP · APIs

• 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