Bioinformatics Lead | Cancer Vaccines

Job description

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

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

City of London

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

13-01-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English