Latest Drug Discovery Jobs

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Head of AI

As Head of AI, you will lead the development and implementation of AI strategies, governance, and capabilities at LPPA, a leading pension administration company. You will work closely with the CTO and executive team to identify and deliver AI opportunities that enhance operational efficiency, service quality, and member outcomes. Key responsibilities include building the AI team, establishing governance frameworks, and fostering AI adoption across the organization.

Local Pensions Partnership Administration Preston, North West England, United Kingdom £90,000 – £100,000 pa

Hybrid Permanent

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

Lead or contribute to drug discovery projects by integrating medicinal chemistry expertise with AI-driven platforms. Collaborate closely with machine learning teams to refine predictive models and drive programs from hit identification to candidate selection. Play a key role in shaping next-generation drug design through innovation in structure-based and fragment-based approaches, while mentoring teams and managing external research partners.

Isomorphic Labs Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

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

This role involves leading drug discovery programs using AI-driven computational chemistry, either as a Program Lead or Computational Chemistry Lead. You'll shape Isomorphic Labs' AI platform by integrating cutting-edge machine learning into cheminformatics workflows, guide projects from hit identification to candidate selection, and collaborate across disciplines. The position emphasizes scientific leadership, technical innovation, and mentorship within a culture focused on transforming drug discovery through AI.

Isomorphic Labs Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Research Engineer - Post-Training

This role involves owning the full post-training lifecycle for biological foundation models, from alignment to production deployment. Responsibilities include designing and implementing pipelines, building validation frameworks, and collaborating with ML and biology teams to ensure models are scientifically meaningful and aligned with real-world drug discovery problems.

Helical London, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Software Developer - Biology

This role involves developing scalable software systems to support virtual drug discovery, focusing on integrating bio foundation models into production workflows. The developer will build and optimize pipelines for biological data processing, create tools for data visualization and quality control, and collaborate with ML scientists and engineers. The position sits at the intersection of computational biology and software engineering within a high-growth startup environment.

Helical London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Talent Pool

This role is part of Relation Therapeutics' talent pool for future opportunities in computational and discovery roles within life sciences, with a focus on machine learning engineering for high-performance multi-GPU computing. The company integrates single-cell multi-omics, functional assays, and machine learning to advance drug discovery. Ideal candidates come from life sciences or cross-industry ML engineering backgrounds and are interested in contributing to transformative medicine development.

Relation Therapeutics London, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Associate Director, Data Engineering

Lead the development and strategy of a unified data platform integrating wet and dry lab data to support drug discovery. Manage data engineering teams, optimize scientific compute pipelines using Nextflow and Seqera, and ensure FAIR data principles with strong governance and lineage. Operate in a highly interdisciplinary environment bridging biology, machine learning, and engineering.

Relation Therapeutics London, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Machine Learning Scientist

Develop novel machine learning methods for molecular and protein discovery, bridging cutting-edge AI research with practical engineering implementation. Work on geometric deep learning, graph neural networks, and diffusion models applied to biological systems. Collaborate closely with engineers to translate research into tools that accelerate scientific discovery in a well-funded life science technology environment.

Platform Recruitment London, United Kingdom £85,000 – £100,000 pa

Senior Software Engineer - Agentic Workflows

Design and build scalable web applications and API services for a biomedical knowledge platform using Node.js, TypeScript, and modern fullstack technologies. Collaborate with product and research teams to deliver features across the development lifecycle. Work with graph databases, full-text search, and cloud infrastructure in a high-impact AI environment.

Causaly London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Staff Software Engineer - Agentic Workflows

Design and build scalable web applications and API services for a high-precision biomedical knowledge platform using Node.js, TypeScript, and GraphQL. Collaborate with product and research teams to deliver features across the full development lifecycle. Work with technologies including Neo4j, ElasticSearch, and AWS to support AI-driven scientific discovery.

Causaly London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

This role involves deploying and integrating generative AI models into pharmaceutical and biotech customers' scientific workflows. The engineer will design production-grade API integrations, data pipelines, and model-serving infrastructure while working on-site to troubleshoot and deliver solutions. The position emphasizes customer collaboration, enterprise-grade deployment standards, and translating real-world feedback into product improvements.

Latent Labs London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences)

This role involves serving as the primary technical advisor for life sciences partners, translating scientific workflows into impactful AI solutions using Claude. The candidate will design and lead cohort-based accelerators, develop scalable technical content, and bridge deployment challenges between partners and product teams to advance AI adoption in research and biotech.

Anthropic London, United Kingdom £165,000 – £190,000 pa

Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences - Clinical Trials/Drug Repurposing)

This role involves working with nonprofits, research institutes, and academic medical centers to deploy AI in clinical trials and drug repurposing for rare and neglected diseases. Responsibilities include designing and reviewing clinical trial protocols, building tools for drug repurposing, and developing reusable infrastructure.

Anthropic London, United Kingdom £225,000 – £255,000 pa

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

Design and build high-performance backend systems for Databricks workspaces, focusing on scalability, low latency, and reliability at massive scale. Lead technical projects, mentor engineers, and contribute to core platform architecture for Delta Lake's write-path operations. Work on production systems handling exabytes of data with a focus on performance optimization and fault tolerance.

Databricks London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Frontier Agents Engineer

This role involves building and optimizing advanced AI agents for enterprise clients using Scale's Generative Platform. You'll work directly with customers to translate business needs into technical solutions, leveraging cutting-edge models and multimodal AI capabilities. The position requires hands-on development, debugging in production environments, and iterating on ML systems using data-driven experimentation.

Scale AI London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent