Latest Biotech Research Scientist Jobs

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Scientist I – Molecular Biology

Design and build large-scale synthetic gene loci and transgenic platforms for antibody discovery, using CRISPR/Cas9, RMCE and site-specific integrases. Hands-on molecular biology including PCR, NGS, plasmid construction and flow-cytometric immunophenotyping, within a small multidisciplinary team working from dry-lab design to wet-lab validation.

Alloy Therapeutics UK Ltd Cambridge £45,000 – £50,000 pa

On-site Permanent

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Senior Computational Chemist, LNP Design

This role involves leading the computational design of lipid nanoparticles for nucleic acid delivery, using chemical and biophysical principles, AI tools, and molecular simulations. You will work closely with the experimental team to translate computational insights into testable strategies and refine formulations iteratively.

CureAge Therapeutics London

Hybrid Permanent Part-time

Senior Research Scientist

Join a small, frontier-style AI research group training billion-parameter biological foundation models on the world's largest metagenomic dataset. You'll develop new architectures, training methods and evaluation approaches from scratch, shape a research direction, publish at top venues, and see your work generate novel biology. Reports to the Head of AI Research alongside genomics, sequence modelling and large-scale deep learning researchers.

Basecamp Research London

On-site Permanent

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Customer-facing engineering role bridging frontier generative biology models and pharma/biotech clients. You own end-to-end deployments, building production-grade API integrations, data pipelines and model-serving infrastructure, often embedded on-site with partners, and feed customer insights back into product and research teams.

Latent Labs London

Hybrid Permanent

Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI

Work at the interface between frontier generative models and pharmaceutical/biotech customers, deploying, adapting and fine-tuning models in customer environments. Build production-grade API integrations, model-serving infrastructure and ML data pipelines, while acting as technical point of contact for partners. Combines deep ML research with customer-facing delivery in an interdisciplinary team.

Latent Labs London

Hybrid Permanent

Research Leader / Senior Scientist (Medicinal Drug Design), Cambridge, MA

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.

Isomorphic Labs Cambridge, United States

Hybrid

Research Leader / Senior Scientist (Computational Drug Design), Cambridge, MA

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.

Isomorphic Labs Cambridge, United States

Hybrid

Technical Product Owner

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.

EMBL-EBI Saffron Walden

Hybrid Temporary

Software Engineer

Designs and develops software and APIs for the UniProt protein data services and website, serving a global scientific community. Also handles design, maintenance and monitoring of the website's cloud infrastructure, with a focus on scalability, well-tested code and distributed big-data processing. Works in a dynamic interdisciplinary team of engineers and bioinformaticians alongside biologists.

EMBL-EBI Saffron Walden £3,452 pm

Hybrid Contract

Director, Respiratory Innovation, Global Epidemiology and RWE

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.

GSK USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence £174,750 – £291,250 pa

Hybrid

Director, Respiratory Innovation, Global Epidemiology and RWE

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.

GSK Boston, United States £174,750 – £320,375 pa

Hybrid

Senior Scientist, R&D

Owns R&D extraction workflow development, adapting and optimising metagenomic DNA/RNA extraction methods across diverse, low-biomass and inhibitor-rich sample types, including HMW extractions for long-read sequencing. Designs controlled experiments, transfers validated methods to production and a global partner network, and works in a data-first lab environment feeding a large gene atlas.

Basecamp Research London

On-site Permanent

Associate Research Leader - Stem Cells

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.

IQVIA Cambridge

Senior Scientist - ELN & Data Specialist, Global Technical Development

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.

Orchard Therapeutics London

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Scientist, AI for Discovery — New Target Discovery

Hands-on individual contributor building and deploying agentic AI and predictive foundation models for in silico biology, including perturbation prediction and virtual cell models, to accelerate drug target identification and validation. Partners with therapeutic area scientists across Oncology and BioPharmaceuticals, writing production-quality Python pipelines and contributing to publications.

AstraZeneca Cambridge

Hybrid

Research Assistant – Cell Biology (Contractor)

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.

Relation Therapeutics London

On-site Permanent

Scientist, Genetic Assays

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.

Moderna Oxford

On-site