Bioinformatics Lead | Cancer Vaccines
I'm working with an extremely well-backed, early-stage company in London building personalised cancer vaccines.
They're approaching this as a technical problem first. Small team, strong scientific founders, and a clear intention to build robust computational systems that can run on real patient data.
They're hiring a Bioinformatics Lead to take ownership of the computational pipeline, from raw sequencing data through to antigen prioritisation.
The work spans three core areas:
- mutation / variant discovery
- ctDNA
- antigen prediction and peptide prioritisation
You don't need to be best-in-class across all three. Being genuinely strong in one, with the ability to grow into the others, is a strong match.
They're looking for someone who:
- has built bioinformatics pipelines from scratch and made them reliable
- is comfortable working with noisy biological data and imperfect inputs
- can move research-grade code into something reproducible and production-ready
- has the judgement to decide what to build vs what to reuse
- prefers ownership over a narrow scope
- Has a proven record of innovation and moving the needle
Backgrounds are flexible. You might come from cancer genomics, infectious disease, evolutionary biology or another data-heavy bio domain. What matters more is how you think and how you build.
This is a hands-on technical lead role. No expectation to line-manage immediately, but plenty of scope to grow into leadership.
The founders are young, extremely driven and backed by industry leaders and top SF VC's.
£70,000 - £100,000+ + equity for the right person