Senior AI / ML Bioinformatician

The Francis Crick Institute
London, United Kingdom
Yesterday
£54 pa

Salary

£54 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Seniority
Senior
Posted
18 Sep 2026 (Yesterday)

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is Europe’s largest biomedical research institute under one roof. Our world-class scientists and staff collaborate on vital research to help prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, infectious diseases and neurodegenerative conditions.

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About the role

We are looking for a collaborative and self-motivated Senior Bioinformaticians with extensive AI/ML experience analysing biomedical data in a research environment to join the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and innovative researcher to apply advanced computational approaches across a diverse range of scientific projects while contributing to a collaborative, technology-driven research environment.

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The Project

As a Senior Bioinformatician, you will partner with researchers across the Francis Crick Institute to analyse complex omics, imaging, and clinical datasets, turning data into meaningful biological insights. You’ll play an active role in shaping experimental design, developing innovative analytical approaches, and delivering impactful discoveries.

What you will be doing

You will:

  • Provide AI/ML expertise to help Francis Crick scientists achieve their research objectives.
  • Provide expertise to inform on the experimental and analysis design process.
  • Analyse complex biomedical data, using a wide range of biological resources and AI/ML methods to deliver on complex bespoke analysis goals.
  • Interpret, evaluate and apply novel analysis approaches to build bespoke analysis pipelines to solve analysis questions.
  • Apply analysis expertise to help scientists interpret results and make research decisions.
  • Work independently at all points of the data analysis workflow.

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About you

You will bring

You will have:

  • A degree in a relevant subject with an extensive analytical component e.g. bioinformatics, statistics, molecular biology or mathematics.*
  • Significant experience with varied types of biomedical data and analysis.
  • Extensive experience applying AI/ML bioinformatics to multiple concurrent projects in a collaborative biological research environment to provide publication-quality analysis results to researchers*
  • Significant experience in Agentic AI and LLM applied to biomedical research.*
  • Significant experience in R or Python with a track record of developing programs and scripts conforming to common coding standards.

Minimum criteria*

About Working at the Crick

Our values

  • We arebold. We make space for creative, dynamic and imaginative ideas and approaches. We’re not afraid to do things differently.
  • We areopen. We’re highly collaborative and interactive, and make sure our activities are visible to the outside world.
  • We arecollegial. We show respect for one another, work cooperatively and support the wider community.

At the Crick, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to driving innovation and scientific discovery. If you need assistance with your application, please contact .

To read more about our EDI approach, click here.

What will you receive?

We value our team members and are proud to offer an extensive range of benefits to support their well-being and development. You can find out more about what we offer here.

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