LEVEL: Scientist / Senior Scientist · LOCATION: London (20 Triton Street) · PATTERN: In-person, lab-basedThe opportunityWe are building the protein production cascade that turns a sequence into characterised, quality-controlled protein at scale, and you will build it from the first manual run.
This is the work upstream of every protein data point we generates: DNA design, molecular biology, protein expression, purification, and quality control, developed by hand and engineered to move onto automation.
The data that matters most doesn’t exist yet, so we’re building the infrastructure to produce it, with quality and traceability built in from day one.
We’re in stealth and heads-down on execution.
We’ll share more about what we’re building once you’ve spoken with the team.
The roleYou will build the protein production cascade that sits upstream of molecular characterisation and functional assays: DNA design, molecular biology, protein expression, purification, and quality control through analytical characterisation.
The cascade will eventually run autonomously on our automation platform.
In the first phase, you develop each step by hand, running protocols manually, setting reproducibility and quality thresholds, and proving each phase works before it moves onto instrumentation.
As the automation platform comes online, the work shifts toward instrumented execution, equivalence validation, and the engineering judgement calls that decide which manual steps get automated and which stay in human hands.
You will work directly with the automation engineering and software teams on the boundary between scientific protocols and autonomous execution, at Scientist or Senior Scientist level, alongside Principal Scientists at the bench, and you will grow into protocol authorship over the first year.
What you will do in your first twelve monthsPHASE 0 · NOW TO AUG 2026◆ Land in the lab.
Set up your bench at the London site and start manual ass.