Data Science Jobs

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Director · manages people

Lead all externalised drug discovery and preclinical lab operations, building and scaling a global CRO infrastructure for an AI-first drug design platform. Oversee experimental throughput, data QC and turnaround times, embed data-generation-by-design standards, and manage vendor governance, budgets and a team of CRO leads and operations managers.

AlphaFold

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead

Lead medicinal chemistry strategy across drug discovery programmes, from hit identification through lead optimisation to candidate nomination, while working hands-on as an individual contributor. Partner closely with AI/ML platform teams to refine predictive models and manage CRO resources, mentoring junior colleagues in a hybrid London team.

AlphaFold

• London
• Hybrid
• £130,000 pa
• Senior

Senior client-facing consulting role within a global technology consultancy's Data & AI practice, serving pharmaceutical and Life Sciences clients. Involves applying data science, machine learning and GenAI to commercial use cases such as sales, marketing and customer analytics, leading projects from strategy through implementation while managing senior stakeholders and supporting pre-sales and business development.

Python · SQL

• Guildford
• £38,448 – £46,970 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Postdoctoral fellow role applying informatics, data science, machine learning and AI to animal health and welfare within the vHive and Health and Biomedical Informatics Group. Responsibilities include computational data analysis, in-silico drug repurposing, knowledge representation, biomarker discovery from proteomics and transcriptomics, and collaboration with industry partner Zoetis.

R · Python

• Exeter
• £21,805 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Develop next-generation machine learning models to predict genetic interactions from large-scale perturb-seq data, evaluating graph neural networks, autoencoders and joint gene embeddings. The project is purely computational, with experimental pancreatic cancer data supplied by the AstraZeneca and Cancer Research Horizons Functional Genomics Centre for a lab-in-the-loop validation cycle.

Perturb-seq · DepMap · Project Score

• London
• Senior · manages people

Owns the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer behind the Databricks Lakehouse, driving performance innovations like Low Shuffle Merge and Deletion Vectors. The role involves low-level systems debugging, performance optimisation on large production clusters, architecture design, and technical leadership including mentoring and sprint planning. Distinct for its scale: millions of VMs, terabytes of logs and exabytes of data daily, with active open-source contribution.

Databricks · Delta Lake · Apache Iceberg +6