Scientific Developer (Chemical Biology Resources)

Location: Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom; hybrid working arrangements are available.

Salary: £3,452 or £3,861 per month after tax, depending on grade, plus benefits and allowances. Contract length: 2 years.

Company

hirify.global-EBI is a research organisation providing publicly available databases and tools for the storage, analysis, and dissemination of large biological datasets.

What you will do

• Develop an open-source drug side-effect resource for drug discovery and safety research.
• Build machine learning and data-processing pipelines to extract safety data from drug labels, clinical trials, publications, and other documents.
• Map extracted information to biomedical ontologies and prepare clean, reliable training sets.
• Integrate workflows with Chhirify.global, the Open Targets Platform, and existing team infrastructures.
• Collaborate with Open Targets pharmaceutical partners to assess, validate, and refine methods.
• Present project outcomes to the scientific community and stakeholders through publications and presentations.

Requirements

• PhD or equivalent experience in cheminformatics, bioinformatics, or a relevant scientific discipline.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Strong attention to detail, problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills.
• Interest in biomedical knowledge extraction, data standardisation, and open-source scientific resources.
• Successful international applicants are offered visa exemptions.

Nice to have

• Experience applying NLP methods or LLMs in the biomedical domain.
• Experience with document and text preprocessing, cleaning, transformation, and ontology mapping.
• Experience with data structures, data models, and databases.
• Safety or toxicology research experience.
• Experience with version control and software testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative and inclusive multidisciplinary research environment at the Wellcome Genome Campus.
• Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working patterns.
• Private medical insurance, pension scheme, and multiple insurance benefits.
• 30 days of annual leave plus public holidays.
• Relocation package, including an installation grant if required.
• Family benefits, campus facilities, shuttle transport, subsidised gym and cafeteria, and sports and social activities.
• Additional allowances and support for non-UK residents, including education and travel assistance.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV and cover letter through the online application system.
• Applications close at 23:59 CET on 11 October 2026.