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:

• 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 what we're looking for.

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

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