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Job ID: 31165150Company: Abbott LaboratoriesLocation: Witney, State Not Indicated, United KingdomEmployment type: full timeCategory: OperationsIndustry: HealthcarePosted: 2026-10-30 Bring your passion, ideas and purpose to life in a company that can truly help you achieve your full potential. Find out more about this role by reading the information below, then apply to be considered. As a result of strong business growth, industry-leading product development in the biosensor business and a long-term commitment to high volume manufacturing in our Witney Centre of Excellence, we have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Operations Engineering team. About the Role As an Engineer, Project Management, you’ll have opportunity to introduce significant bespoke automated machines and play an initial step in the validation of them. The role is essential to our business as we bring on board more machines, and look to make improvements to existing ones. Your work starts through being connected with many on site cross-functional teams, where you will be a key voice in owning of the validation strategy that you and the team will undertake. Day to day, you will: • create a project plan in order to deliver the work to the business, taking into consideration timelines, assessment and minimisation of risks, communication to stakeholders, • be connected to and very much aware of what the changes your project is introducing to the business, and aware of the benefits it will be delivering on You will be responsible for delivering validated machines into Production; these are used not just for production of our medical devices, but also critically for the inspection of these devices. A key part in this is learning both the technical aspects of the machines, and how we need to test them to validate they are truly functioning as we define needed for the medical device production. From this, you have then opportunity to become a subject matter expert, and become a key technical voice within cross-functional project teams and with our suppliers. You will take the lead on managing your projects, developing new validation tests, and executing process equipment validations for these production machines. As our production machines are complex capital equipment projects, your work will also involve occasionally visiting supplier sites. Why This Role Is Exciting This is more than a job — it’s a chance to grow. You’ll work with state‑of‑the‑art automation technologies alongside an incredibly skilled engineering community spanning projects, process, production, systems, software, R&D, and machine vision. Your work will directly shape the future of healthcare by supporting our expanding biosensor manufacturing capabilities. The role offers opportunity to progress through development to senior engineering level – this might be line managing for some, or technical expertise for others. What We’re Looking For We’d love to hear from you if you bring: A minimum of HNC in Engineering discipline, with preference given to degree level education Proven experience in Project Engineering, with preference to Automated Machinery Technical project management of your projects A passion for problem‑solving Curiosity, technical rigour, and an eye for continuous improvement Strong documentation discipline A collaborative mindset and willingness to mentor others An awareness and understanding of regulated environments As you’d expect from an innovative global health care company, we offer a competitive range of benefits including excellent salaries, a class-leading defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance, subsidised canteen and a flexible benefits scheme. Here at Witney, we also like to help our employees live life to the fullest, and therefore we offer a range of optional initiatives for you to get involved in, including onsite allotments, couch to 5k campaigns, bee keeping, yoga and more! Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. Joining us, you can shape your career as you shape the future of healthcare. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health. World Leader in Blood Glucose Monitoring, Abbott's Diabetes Care business designs, develops and manufactures glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and hospital settings. We have a Centre of Excellence in Witney for the manufacture of electrodes and biosensors used by patients and healthcare professionals for the day-to-day management of diabetes. xrnqpay The Operations group is the largest team in the Witney facility, producing high volumes of test strips and biosensors each year to the high quality standards required by European and US authorities and our internal quality systems.

Job ID: 31160995Company: Abbott LaboratoriesLocation: Witney, Oxfordshire, United KingdomEmployment type: full timeCategory: Customer & Technical SupportIndustry: HealthcarePosted: 2026-10-14 AlinIQ Informatics Technical Specialist Abbott Diagnostics — Field Based (UKI Travel Required) Please read the following job description thoroughly to ensure you are the right fit for this role before applying. Abbott is a global healthcare leader dedicated to helping people live fuller, healthier lives. Our innovations span diagnostics, medical devices, nutrition, and branded generic medicines — improving health outcomes for millions worldwide. With more than 114,000 colleagues supporting customers in over 160 countries, we are committed to advancing the future of healthcare. About Abbott Diagnostics Abbott is a global leader in in vitro diagnostics, providing advanced instruments, digital solutions, and laboratory systems that support hospitals, clinics, and healthcare organisations around the world. Our digital portfolio — including the AlinIQ Informatics suite — helps customers streamline workflows, strengthen operational efficiency, and elevate diagnostic accuracy through innovative, data-driven technology. The AlinIQ Informatics Team operates within the UKI Service Organisation, supporting customers with technical expertise and hands‑on delivery of complex digital health solutions. About the Role We’re looking for an AlinIQ Informatics Technical Specialist to deliver and support complex IT infrastructure solutions spanning Abbott's Digital Health applications. In this field-based position, you’ll play a key role throughout the full project lifecycle — from implementation and configuration to optimisation, training, and ongoing customer support. You will combine strong technical skills with excellent communication and problem‑solving abilities to ensure laboratories can fully leverage the power of Abbott’s informatics platforms. What You’ll Be Doing Implement and configure AlinIQ Digital Health applications in line with customer requirements Collaborate with project teams to understand and validate technical needs Integrate software and hardware components, recommending appropriate infrastructure where required Deliver engaging, structured training to end users Provide post‑implementation support, troubleshooting, and performance optimisation Build strong customer relationships and act as a trusted technical advisor Track progress, document updates, and maintain accurate project records Participate in customer meetings and internal team sessions Support continuous improvement through customer feedback and solution enhancements Travel to customer sites as part of role delivery (up to 80%) What You’ll Bring A Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Medical/Hospital Informatics, or a related field Technical understanding of IT systems within healthcare, diagnostics, or laboratory environments Practical experience installing, configuring, or supporting laboratory xrnqpay informatics systems (e.g., LIS, middleware, analyser management, inventory systems) Excellent customer-facing and communication skills Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and attention to detail Ability to manage tasks independently while collaborating effectively across teams Proficiency with business applications such as MS Office, MS Project, or Smartsheet Willingness to travel regularly and flexibly to support customer needs What We Offer As you’d expect from a global healthcare leader, Abbott provides an excellent package including: Competitive salary Defined contribution pension scheme Private healthcare Life assurance Flexible benefits programme tailored to your needs You’ll also gain opportunities for professional development, global exposure, and meaningful work that directly contributes to improving patient care.

Recruitment Location: United KingdomCounty / State / Province: OxfordshireCity: OxfordRequisition ID: 11256Operations DirectorLocation: Oxford (OX3 7LE)Salary: 85,000 per annumEmployment Type: Full-Time, Permanent (40 hours per week)Working Hours: Monday to FridayAbout the RoleG4S Facilities Management is seeking an experienced, strategic Operations Director to lead our high-profile healthcare facilities management contracts in Oxford. If you would like to know a bit more about this opportunity, or are considering applying, then please read the following job information. Based across the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (NOC), you will hold full operational oversight and complete Profit & Loss (P&L) accountability for major healthcare PFI contracts.In this senior executive leadership role, you will champion a collaborative approach across both Hard and Soft FM service lines, leading a strategic operational transformation to merge, optimize, and align PFI service delivery across both prestigious hospital sites.Key ResponsibilitiesP&L & Financial Management: Hold complete Profit & Loss responsibility for a contract budget of approximately 20 million, driving sustainable cost efficiencies, managing budget forecasts, and maximizing commercial value.Contract & PFI Delivery: Lead all operational Hard FM (mechanical, electrical, building fabric) and Soft FM (cleaning, catering and portering) services, ensuring full contractual compliance, PFI risk management, and alignment with healthcare regulations (e.g., HTMs).Client & Stakeholder Relations: Act as the principal G4S representative for key client liaison meetings, building strong collaborative partnerships with the NHS Trust, Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), and supply chain partners.Team Leadership & Development: Induct, coach, and empower operations managers and service heads to build a high-performing, inclusive team culture focused on customer service excellence.Strategic & Operational Transformation: Drive the integration of both hospital accounts, establish standardized operating procedures (SOPs), implement continuous improvement programs, and update contract risk registers.Compliance & Governance: Ensure robust Health & Safety standards, statutory compliance, CAFM system management, subcontractor monitoring, and effective HR lifecycle management.Essential CriteriaSenior PFI Leadership: Proven senior management or Director-level experience overseeing complex, multi-site Healthcare PFI contracts.P&L Experience: Demonstrable track record of full P&L responsibility and financial budget management.Multi-Disciplinary FM Oversight: Proven experience leading both Hard FM (building services/M&E) and Soft FM operational delivery teams.Commercial & Financial Acumen: Highly numerate and commercially astute with strong contract management capabilities.Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication skills with a proven ability to build strong collaborative relationships with senior NHS Trust representatives, SPVs, and suppliers.Technical Knowledge: Strong working knowledge of CAFM systems and Health & Safety legislation.Desirable CriteriaProfessional Health & Safety qualification (e.g., IOSH or NEBOSH).In-depth knowledge of Health Technical Memoranda (HTM) requirements in a healthcare facility setting.Experience in project management, contract integration, or service transformation.BenefitsWhile working for G4S, you are entitled to a number of benefits and offers from G4S partners and other organisations, from employee assistance provided through SPARK, to RAC cover and so much more, including the below;25 days holiday plus bank holidays.Private Healthcare.Progression, training and development catered to you.Refer A Friend incentives.Company pension scheme with employer contributions.G4S Life Assurance Scheme.Charity work- Match-IT and Payroll Giving.Confidential Counselling Services.24/7 support specialising in health and medical.Discounts on high street shops and brands including several leading high street brands, retailers and travel suppliers.G4S is the International business of Allied Universal, the world's leading security and facility services provider and trusted partner to more than 400 of the Fortune 500. Allied Universal delivers unparalleled customer relationships, innovative solutions, cutting-edge smart technologies and tailored services that enable clients to focus on their core businesses. With operations in over 100 countries and territories, Allied Universal is the third largest private employer in North America and seventh in the world. Annual revenue is approximately $23 billion. There is no greater purpose and responsibility than serving and helping to safeguard customers, communities and people. xrnqpay For more information, visit . In the UK, the company has an extensive network of offices and more than 31,000 employees.#LI-RG1

Job ID: 31160011Company: Abbott LaboratoriesLocation: Witney, State Not Indicated, United KingdomEmployment type: full timeCategory: OperationsIndustry: HealthcarePosted: 2026-10-23 Bring your passion, ideas, and purpose to life in a company that can help you shape your career as you shape the future of healthcare. Check out the role overview below If you are confident you have got the right skills and experience, apply today. World Leader in Blood Glucose Monitoring, Abbott Diabetes Care designs, develops and manufactures glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and hospital settings. We have a Centre of Excellence in Witney for the manufacture of electrodes and biosensors used by patients and healthcare professionals for the day-to-day management of diabetes. The Operations group is the largest team in the Witney facility, producing high volumes of test strips and biosensors each year to the stringent quality standards demanded by European and US authorities and our internal quality systems. We have an opportunity for a Controls Engineer to join our Operations Group, working across all aspects of the manufacturing area of the business. The role of the Controls Engineer is to provide an innovative approach to problem solving and stay abreast of current development in control systems technology to ensure the most effective solutions are applied to problems. Collaborating with engineering colleagues, you will be working on systems for motion control equipment, interpret PLC codes, debug issues and aid continuous improvement activities. To be successful, you will need experience of working on automation projects and developing solutions to complex automation needs. You will be qualified to HNC level or higher in an Electrical, Electronic or Control Engineering discipline, however proven industry experience backed up by a recognised engineering apprenticeship will be considered. You need a track record of fault finding and modification to PLC, HMI, Motion Control for automated machinery, with exposure of Siemens S7/TIA Portal and Allen Bradley Studio 5000 being essential. Experience using Structured language in both platforms would be desirable. Furthermore, experience working with Oracle database knowledge would be advantageous. You will also need to be able to demonstrate a track record of accomplishing your objectives, working proactively, and managing your own time effectively. As we operate in a highly regulated industry, you must be able to demonstrate the ability to follow procedures and create accurate documents. This is a fantastic opportunity to become a valued member of a highly skilled Engineering team working with brand new state-of-the-art automation in a fast-growing area of our business. Engineering skill is key to us, with members working in areas including projects, process, production, systems, software, R&D, and machine vision. Abbott has health/wellness and financial benefits that help provide security for you and your family. As you’d expect from an innovative global health care company, we offer a competitive range of benefits including excellent salaries, a class-leading defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance, subsidised canteen and a flexible benefits scheme. xrnqpay Here at Witney, we also like to help our employees live life to the fullest, and therefore we offer a range of optional initiatives for you to get involved in, including yoga, country-wide challenges, and more!

Job ID: 31165148Company: Abbott LaboratoriesLocation: Witney, State Not Indicated, United KingdomEmployment type: full timeCategory: OperationsIndustry: HealthcarePosted: 2026-10-30 Bring your passion, ideas and purpose to life in a company that can truly help you achieve your full potential. The following information provides an overview of the skills, qualities, and qualifications needed for this role. As a result of strong business growth, industry-leading product development in the biosensor business and a long-term commitment to high volume manufacturing in our Witney Centre of Excellence, we have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Operations Engineering team. About the Role As a Senior Project Engineer, you’ll have opportunity to introduce significant bespoke automated machines and play an initial step in the validation of them. The role is essential to our business as we bring on board more machines, and look to make improvements to existing ones. Your work starts through being connected with many on site cross-functional teams, where you will be a key voice in owning of the validation strategy that you and the team will undertake. Day to day, you will: • create a project plan in order to deliver the work to the business, taking into consideration timelines, assessment and minimisation of risks, communication to stakeholders, • be connected to and very much aware of what the changes your project is introducing to the business, and aware of the benefits it will be delivering on You will be responsible for delivering validated machines into Production; these are used not just for production of our medical devices, but also critically for the inspection of these devices. A key part in this is learning both the technical aspects of the machines, and how we need to test them to validate they are truly functioning as we define needed for the medical device production. From this, you have then opportunity to become a subject matter expert, and become a key technical voice within cross-functional project teams and with our suppliers. You will take the lead on managing your projects, developing new validation tests, and executing process equipment validations for these production machines. As our production machines are complex capital equipment projects, your work will also involve occasionally visiting supplier sites. Why This Role Is Exciting This is more than a job — it’s a chance to grow. You’ll work with state‑of‑the‑art automation technologies alongside an incredibly skilled engineering community spanning projects, process, production, systems, software, R&D, and machine vision. Your work will directly shape the future of healthcare by supporting our expanding biosensor manufacturing capabilities. The role offers opportunity to progress through development to senior engineering level – this might be line managing for some, or technical expertise for others. What We’re Looking For We’d love to hear from you if you bring: A minimum of HNC in Engineering discipline, with preference given to degree level education Proven experience in Project Engineering, with preference to Automated Machinery Technical project management of your projects A passion for problem‑solving Curiosity, technical rigour, and an eye for continuous improvement Strong documentation discipline A collaborative mindset and willingness to mentor others An awareness and understanding of regulated environments As you’d expect from an innovative global health care company, we offer a competitive range of benefits including excellent salaries, a class-leading defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance, subsidised canteen and a flexible benefits scheme. Here at Witney, we also like to help our employees live life to the fullest, and therefore we offer a range of optional initiatives for you to get involved in, including onsite allotments, couch to 5k campaigns, bee keeping, yoga and more! Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. Joining us, you can shape your career as you shape the future of healthcare. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health. World Leader in Blood Glucose Monitoring, Abbott's Diabetes Care business designs, develops and manufactures glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and hospital settings. We have a Centre of Excellence in Witney for the manufacture of electrodes and biosensors used by patients and healthcare professionals for the day-to-day management of diabetes. xrnqpay The Operations group is the largest team in the Witney facility, producing high volumes of test strips and biosensors each year to the high quality standards required by European and US authorities and our internal quality systems.

Join us at EIT: At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. Welcome to the Plant Biology Institute: The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world-class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting-edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. Areas of exploration include: • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant-based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state-of-the-art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long-term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. Your Role: The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) is seeking highly motivated and skilled Scientist (all levels) in Molecular Biology to be part of a transformative research programme at the forefront of plant biotechnology.The successful candidate will design and conduct experiments aligned with stage-gated milestones. The Scientist will be expected to contribute to publications and IP generation and play an active role in translating research into real-world and commercial solutions aligned with EIT’s mission of humane technological advancement. This role offers a unique opportunity to conduct high-impact research at the forefront of plant science while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation from lab to global impact. The ideal candidate will have an intrinsic motivation to translate their research into commercial solutions for real-life impact, and be a creative problem solver, ready to be part of a rapidly scaling team. Your Responsibilities: • Drive rigorous experimental design, execution, and data interpretations, ensuring robust and reproducible scientific outcomes., • Deliver research progress through stage gated milestones., • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to incorporate cutting edge research techniques into experiments., • Present scientific work at seminars within EIT and at external meetings, including contributing to laboratory-wide discussions on developments within the field., • Assist in mentoring other members of the research group where appropriate., • Collaborate with experts across the EIT ecosystem, e.g. at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology., • Assist in the translation of scientific results into commercial opportunities consistent with the EIT humane endeavours., • Recognise and act on opportunities for the creation of IP and cooperating in patent protection and in impact delivery., • Conduct research ethically, in compliance with EIT policy, regulatory guidance and best scientific practice. Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience: • PhD and > 5 years postdoctoral research experience in high-performance (ideally, plant) molecular biology labs in industry or academia, • Extensive experience in the design, construction, and deployment of (ideally, plant) gene libraries for gene discovery, trait engineering, and functional genomics applications., • Hands-on experience with pooled transformation, selection, screening, and deconvolution workflows in plant cells, tissues, or whole plant systems., • Expertise in molecular cloning techniques including Golden Gate, Gateway, Gibson Assembly and modular DNA assembly systems., • Experience applying NGS-based methods for library quality control, construct identification, barcode tracking, and pooled-screen analysis., • Ability to design, optimise, and troubleshoot automated molecular biology workflows, including cloning, transformation, screening, and sample preparation processes., • The aptitude to rapidly test diverse and ambitious new hypotheses while retaining the flexibility to recognize and pivot away from ideas that fail to show promise. Desirable Skills, Qualifications & Experience: • Extensive knowledge of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, transient expression systems, and stable transformation approaches across plant species., • Proven experience designing and utilising a wide range of plant expression vectors, binary vectors, and transformation constructs., • Strong understanding of plant gene regulatory networks, transcription factor biology, promoter architecture, and plant gene expression control mechanisms., • Demonstrated experience operating and developing workflows for laboratory automation platforms and liquid handling systems (e.g., Opentrons, Hamilton, or equivalent)., • Experience with high-throughput sample processing in multiwell plate formats, • Experience collaborating within multidisciplinary teams spanning molecular biology, cell biology, bioinformatics, automation, and computational biology., • Excellent experimental documentation, scientific communication, and project management skills., • Familiarity with laboratory data management systems, electronic lab notebooks, and automated data capture workflows., • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world‑class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting‑edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. Areas of exploration include: • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant‑based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state‑of‑the‑art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long‑term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. We are seeking a visionary and accomplished Group Leader/Senior Group Leader in Advanced Genome Technologies to lead a transformative research programme at the forefront of plant biotechnology. This senior leadership role is integral to shaping a newly established and rapidly scaling Plant Biology Institute that aspires to become a global leader in delivering scientific breakthroughs with real‑world impact. The successful candidate will establish and lead a world‑class research programme in advanced genome technologies and/or next‑generation plant transformation approaches working at the cutting edge of plant biotechnology, developing new and enhanced methods for genetic manipulation, plant regeneration, and DNA/RNA delivery to plants that enable a step change in our technological ability to engineer plants. They will build and manage a high‑performing, interdisciplinary team, develop cross‑sector collaborations, and ensure research excellence is translated into commercial opportunities aligned with EIT’s mission of humane and sustainable innovation. This is a rare opportunity to define the scientific direction of a next‑generation research hub addressing some of the planet’s most pressing challenges. • Contribute to the development and expansion of a newly established plant sciences research institute which is aiming to scale rapidly over the next 5 years to become a global leader in plant science research aimed at tackling humanity’s greatest challenges., • Establish, lead, and continuously evolve a flagship research programme in advanced genome technologies, with a particular emphasis on novel plant transformation, plant regeneration, and/or novel DNA/RNA delivery systems., • To work with internal teams to define the path to impact for the research program. To design and execute research programs and to ensure that all research programs are value and purpose driven., • To recruit and lead a top talent team of research scientists including group leaders, post docs and PhD candidates. To hire based on competency, experience and values. To manage based on clear performance targets and with accountability. To maintain a positive, engaged culture, in line with EIT Oxford values., • Contribute to planning and communicating the scientific direction of the advanced genome technology program which is aimed at changing the art of the possible in plant engineering through advances in plant transformation technologies (large scale DNA delivery, targeted insertions, engineering agrobacterium, high throughput approaches and/or automation), • Direct the activities of the research group by supervising some projects personally and overseeing projects delegated to group members. You will be expected to provide the intellectual energy and independent thinking necessary to lead a programme of cutting‑edge research and to shape the overall aims and success of the group., • Drive rigorous experimental design, execution, and data interpretation, ensuring robust and reproducible scientific outcomes., • Managing research program through stage gated milestones, with active, no/no‑go decisions based on validated research data. Designing research programmes to enable delivery requirements to be considered through development and implementation. Identifying pre‑emptive decisions to enable future scale‑up., • Manage project resources - including personnel, equipment, and budgets - in coordination with the senior leadership team., • Ensure research is conducted ethically and in compliance with EIT policy, regulatory guidance, and best scientific practice., • To generate, maintain and manage collaborations with key teams across EIT Oxford and in the wider scientific and commercial ecosystem to accelerate the path to scientific discovery and impact. To maintain key stakeholder relationships., • To work, where appropriate, with the translation team within EIT to translate the results of research into commercial opportunities consistent with EITs humane endeavours.To recognise and act on opportunities for the creation and protection of intellectual property., • Leader of research group(s) within academia or industry., • Recognised thought leader in their field., • Proven ability to manage scientific output for a team of PhDs/Post doctoral researchers., • Experience delivering against long term strategic research programs., • Experience of managing a large team of researchers and scientists including interdisciplinary workstream integration., • Demonstration of commercial awareness and versatility of research that could serve a wide range of different applications. Development of partnerships with engineering, technical partners and licensees/channel partners., • Project management, communication and resource allocation experience., • Ability to build both internal and external relationships. Working collaboratively with others outside of their discipline., • Competitive salary + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday + options to buy additional days, • Pension, • Life Assurance, • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance, • Hospital Cash Plan, • Therapy Services, • Perk Box, • Electric Car Scheme, • Childcare benefit, • Newly constructed, state‑of‑the‑art laboratories and growth facilities, core scientific and operational support, and substantial core funding., • A collaborative research environment with highly skilled team working at the cutting edge of plant science to create commercially sustainable solutions that tackle humanity’s biggest challenges, including enabling sustainable agriculture and improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production., • Opportunities for professional development including publication, conferences, IP portfolio creation, spin‑out generation, and leadership development. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Description At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org . At EIT we are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our SciComp team. In this role you will build robust, scalable software systems that power EIT's scientific initiatives and contribute to the full software lifecycle, ensuring our technology stack is reliable, modular, and built to the highest engineering standards. • Design and build robust services (APIs, CLI tools and software modules) that power scientific applications and products., • Bridge diverse components, integrating ML inference servers, hardware interfaces, and data pipelines into cohesive systems, while ensuring high availability and low latency., • Own the full production path-from architectural design and coding to automated testing, benchmarking, deployment, and observability., • Collaborate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team of Data Engineers, AI Scientists, Software Engineers and Domain Experts., • Champion software engineering best practices across EIT, such as maintaining high standards of code quality, system security, and transparency., • MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline., • Extensive experience as a Software Engineer, with required proficiency in Python, including proven success in implementing and deploying robust, scalable distributed systems in production., • Demonstrated experience designing, managing, and orchestrating complex systems involving scalable data infrastructure, hardware interfaces, and machine learning models. Expertise in defining and exposing functionality via clean, well-documented APIs (e.g., REST, gRPC)., • Proven experience implementing and managing robust CI/CD pipelines and reproducible development workflows., • Strong collaborator able to clearly communicate system design, architecture decisions, and software engineering practices to multi-disciplinary teams., • Experience leveraging Kubernetes for application deployment, and familiarity with distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Ray, Spark), or specialised batch schedulers/resource managers (e.g., Slurm, Volcano, Kueue)., • Demonstrated expertise with specialised serving engines (e.g., vLLM, SGLang) or techniques for deploying models in resource-constrained or high-throughput environments., • Familiarity with GitOps and CI/CD (e.g., ArgoCD, GitHub Actions)., • Experience managing and deploying production systems across diverse environments, including cloud, on-premises clusters, and edge devices., • Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic R&D settings, demonstrating high autonomy necessary to translate scientific objectives into high-quality software., • Competitive salary (dependent on experience) + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services, • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis., • You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford/London(or be willing to relocate)., • The SciComp team work to a hybrid working pattern of 3 days in the office, 2x in our Oxford Office and 1x in our London office. You must be able to commit to this should you be successfully appointed. #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Led by Founding Director Jason Chin, the Generative Biology Institute (GBI) at the Ellison Institute of Technology is tackling the key challenges in making biology engineerable, and thereby unlocking the unrivalled power of biology for the benefit of humanity. The vision of the GBI is to lay the foundations for engineering biology, and unlock its potential for good. To achieve this, we must overcome two key challenges. First, we need the ability to write in the natural language of biology, enabling the rapid and scalable synthesis of entire genomes with precision. Second, we must understand what to write – determining which DNA sequences will generate biological systems that perform the desired functions. Addressing these challenges will allow us to harness the full power of biology to create transformative solutions across health, agriculture, clean energy and more. The Generative Biology Institute commenced operations in 2025, occupying newly renovated bespoke space in the Oxford Science Park. The team will later move to a purpose‑made facility in the Oxford Science Park, currently under construction. Once complete, this state‑of‑the‑art facility will include more than 40,000 m² of research laboratory and office space. It will house over 30 groups and up to 600 employees at scale, focused on solving the two critical challenges in making biology engineerable and applying the solutions to addressing the global challenges encapsulated in EIT’s Humane Endeavours. We are seeking ambitious, creative, and highly skilled Postdoctoral Researchers to join the Zuercher Lab at GBI. The Zuercher Lab, led by Principal Investigator Jerome Zuercher, focuses on two interconnected areas, with many projects involving aspects of both topics (Genome synthesis and Genetic Isolation). A direct consequence of the universality of the genetic code is the possibility for genetic information to be transferred between evolutionarily distant species. Such horizontal transfer of genetic information (as opposed to vertical genetic transfer, where information is passed on from an organism to its progeny) is common in nature and has shaped evolution over billions of years. In the context of genetic engineering, however, this type of genetic spillover is highly concerning. Prevention of interference of artificial genetic information with natural biology is critical to allow biotechnological progress to be both safe and ambitious. Furthermore, biotechnology will play a central role in addressing pressing challenges in food security, pharmaceutical development, sustainable fuel sources, and efficient carbon fixation. Thus, essential parts of the economy will increasingly rely on bioproduction facilities harbouring tailor‑made microbes. It is therefore critical that such facilities are extremely reliable. However, due to the universality of the genetic code, engineered organisms are just as susceptible to viral invasion as natural organisms. In fact, a single viral particle that finds its way into a bioproduction facility can force its operational shutdown. Altering the genetic code of a cell provides an opportunity to render natural and synthetic genetic information incompatible. This breakthrough offers a means to protect the environment from genetically engineered organisms and, vice versa, engineered organisms critical for bioproduction from viral invasion. Through concerted efforts in genome recoding and translational engineering, it was possible to create the first organism with a synthetic genetic code. Since this organism “speaks a different language” than organisms found in nature, it is genetically isolated; it can neither give nor receive genetic information from the environment. The lab continues the development of altered genetic codes to increase the safety of biotechnology and aims to rewrite even the most complex biological systems in alternative synthetic genetic codes. Our ability to write DNA has recently expanded to the genomic scale. The possibility of defining every single base in the genome of a cell enables manipulation of the most fundamental cellular properties, such as the genetic code. However, current genome synthesis methods are slow, narrow in scope, and limited in scale. To date, the genomes of only two bacteria have been successfully synthesized. This project aims to develop methodologies to make the synthesis of model organism genomes (i.e. E. coli) more rapid and enable the synthesis of the genomes of non‑model bacteria to broaden the scope of genome synthesis. The ability to routinely synthesize the genomes of a diverse set of organisms will not only allow reprogramming of the genetic code but also facilitate testing of generative genome designs. Ultimately, the combination of microbial genome synthesis and artificial intelligence will enable biological design at the organism scale with implications in bioproduction, human health, agriculture, and beyond. Learn more at jzlab.bio Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. In your cover letter, please clearly explain your fit, interest, and relevant experience for joining the group. All applications must be submitted exclusively though the EIT job portal. If you would like to discuss this role in more detail, prior to submitting an application, please contact Jerome Zuercher at . Due to the volume of applications, the review and decision process may take 3–6 months. • Design, execute, and troubleshoot experiments, including the development of novel methodologies and adaptation of existing techniques to new applications., • Analyse complex datasets using computational and statistical tools, interpreting results in the context of broader research goals., • Contribute intellectually to the research direction by identifying opportunities for innovation and refining research questions., • Prepare and publish high-quality scientific papers, reports, presentations, and protocols., • Present research at national and international conferences, seminars, and internal meetings., • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams within GBI, EIT, and external partners to advance complementary workstreams., • Build and maintain research infrastructure, laboratory capabilities, and cutting‑edge technologies., • Mentor and support junior researchers, including PhD students and research assistants., • Translate research findings into commercial or translational opportunities in alignment with EIT’s mission., • Identify and pursue opportunities for intellectual property generation and protection., • Ensure research activities comply with EIT’s policies, legal requirements, and best scientific practice. This list is not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to undertake additional tasks and duties commensurate with the role. • Completed a PhD in a relevant field (e.g., synthetic biology, computational biology and AI, microbial, plant and human cell biology, genomics, robotics and automation, and nucleic acids chemistry)., • Track record of delivering ambitious research projects to a high standard., • Strong track record in research, ideally in molecular biology, synthetic biology, or related fields., • Skilled in data analysis and interpretation; experience with genomic analysis, automation, or computational tools desirable., • Proven ability to work independently, think creatively, and solve complex experimental problems., • Experience publishing in high‑impact journals and presenting at international conferences., • Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects., • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience collaborating in multidisciplinary teams., • Capacity to build and sustain productive collaborations internally and externally., • Resilience, adaptability, and enthusiasm for working in a fast‑paced, high‑growth research environment., • Salary: Competitive + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday pay, • Pension, • Life Assurance, • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance, • Hospital Cash Plan, • Therapy Services, • Perk Box, • Electric Car Scheme, • You must be eligible to work in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. We are open to sponsoring employment visas for this role; however, sponsorship is not available for all visa types or in all circumstances. Eligibility will be assessed on a case‑by‑case basis., • You must be based in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate)., • During peak periods, some longer hours may be required and some working across multiple time zones due to the global nature of the programme., • Our Postdoc roles are set up as a 4‑year fixed‑term contract #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂ This is ambitious work – work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real‑world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world‑class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting‑edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside, • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides, • Novel decarbonised plant‑based production platforms for food and medicines, • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants Researchers will have access to state‑of‑the‑art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long‑term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. At EIT we are seeking an inspiring and strategic Senior Group Leader/Group Leader in Nitrogen Fixation to lead a flagship research programme within its rapidly expanding Plant Biology Institute. This senior leadership position offers a unique opportunity to shape the scientific and operational foundations of a world‑class research team dedicated to developing innovative, purpose‑driven solutions in biological nitrogen fixation. You will play a central role in establishing EIT's global leadership in plant science by recruiting and managing top‑tier talent, forging impactful collaborations, and driving translational research from lab to field. With a clear focus on scientific excellence, commercial viability, and global impact, this role is ideal for a recognised thought leader ready to pioneer transformative science aligned with EIT's values and mission to tackle humanity's greatest challenges. • Contribute to the development and expansion of a newly established plant science institute which will scale rapidly over the next 5 years to become a global leader in plant science research aimed at tackling humanity's greatest challenges., • Establish, lead, and continuously evolve a flagship research programme in biological nitrogen fixation in plants, with a particular emphasis on novel nitrogen‑fixing systems and advanced metabolic and protein engineering., • Work with internal teams to define the path to impact for the research program. Design and execute research programmes and ensure that all research programmes are value and purpose‑driven., • Recruit and lead a top‑talent team of research scientists including post‑docs and PhD candidates. Hire based on competency, experience and values. Manage based on clear performance targets and with accountability. Maintain a positive, engaged culture, in line with EIT Oxford values., • Contribute to planning and communicating the scientific direction of the nitrogen fixation programme which is aimed at engineering biological nitrogen fixation into plants., • Direct the activities of the research group by supervising some projects personally and overseeing projects delegated to group members. Provide the intellectual energy and independent thinking necessary to lead a programme of cutting‑edge research and to shape the overall aims and success of the group., • Drive rigorous experimental design, execution and data interpretation, ensuring robust and reproducible scientific outcomes., • Manage research program through stage‑gated milestones, with active, no/no‑go decisions based on validated research data. Design research programmes to enable delivery requirements to be considered through development and implementation. Identify pre‑emptive decisions to enable future scale‑up., • Manage project resources – including personnel, equipment and budgets – in coordination with the senior leadership team., • Ensure research is conducted ethically and in compliance with EIT policy, regulatory guidance and best scientific practice., • Generate, maintain and manage collaborations with key teams across EIT Oxford and in the wider scientific and commercial ecosystem to accelerate the path to scientific discovery and impact. Maintain key stakeholder relationships., • Work where appropriate with the translation team within EIT to translate the results of research into commercial opportunities consistent with EIT's humane endeavours. Recognise and act on opportunities for the creation and protection of intellectual property., • Leader of research group(s) within academia or industry., • Recognised thought leader in their field., • Proven ability to manage scientific output for a team of PhDs/Post‑doctoral researchers., • Experience delivering against long‑term strategic research programmes., • Experience of managing a large team of researchers and scientists., • Project management, communication and resource allocation experience., • Ability to build both internal and external relationships. Working collaboratively with others outside of their discipline., • Competitive salary + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday + options to buy additional days, • Pension, • Life Assurance, • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance, • Hospital Cash Plan, • Therapy Services, • Perk Box, • Electric Car Scheme, • Childcare benefit, • Newly constructed, state‑of‑the‑art laboratories and growth facilities, core scientific and operational support, with substantial core funding., • A collaborative research environment with highly skilled team working at the cutting edge of plant science to create commercially sustainable solutions that tackle humanity's biggest challenges, including enabling sustainable agriculture and improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production., • Opportunities for professional development including publication, conferences, IP portfolio creation, spin‑out generation, and leadership development. #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. The Scientific Compute and Data team builds the compute, data and tooling foundation behind EIT's science. We run the cloud and GPU infrastructure that the models train on, the data infrastructure that instruments, robots and researchers use, and the data products and shared data models that let one team's results be built on by the next. We provide hands‑on expertise in platform engineering, data engineering, and data management, and create common tooling for every lab to accelerate their experiments across gene editing, battery chemistry, plant biology and more. At EIT we are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Scientific Compute and Data Team. Forward Deployed Data Engineers are a key interface between our core data systems and the research and engineering projects across EIT. You'll work side‑by‑side with scientists and engineers in frontier AI and robotics, generative and plant biology, or pathogen surveillance. You will disseminate data engineering best practices into the institutes, ensuring that datasets are accurate, reproducible, versioned‑controlled, well‑structured, and ready for ML. You will help scientists turn raw information from various sources into high‑quality resources, ensuring our technical foundations support the next generation of discovery. This is a hands‑on role for those who thrive on collaborating directly with researchers and engineers, solving problems quickly, and turning complex research requirements into scalable, reliable data pipelines while contributing to the broader EIT platform. We are looking for clear, respectful communicators who are comfortable bringing their own expertise into diverse groups. • Partner with scientists and engineers to deliver robust, reproducible data pipelines that meet research needs across disciplines., • Own ingestion, storage, curation, and transformation of diverse biological datasets and formats, such as structured/tabular data, unstructured text, high I/O formats like LMDB/Arrow/HDF5, or domain‑specific formats such as fastq/fasta and cif., • Package and deploy code in research environments using containers (e.g. Docker)., • Scale processing across distributed cloud warehouses/storage via container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), High‑Performance GPU Compute (e.g. Slurm), or distributed compute frameworks (e.g. Spark, Ray)., • Contribute to an engineering culture that values maintainability, testing, robust system design, and deep collaboration, but allows flexibility for rapid prototyping and responsiveness to changing landscapes. Nobody checks every box - if you are excited about this role and think you could contribute, we encourage you to apply. • You have strong programming experience in Python, and value code quality, reliability, and readability as much as performance., • You have a deep understanding of data storage and manipulation: relational systems, sharding and parallelisation, indexing, scalability., • You have experience working on cloud compute platforms and varied Linux environments., • You have worked at scale, especially on distributed/parallelised data systems., • You promote good Data Engineering and Data Management practices as a means of enabling good science - reproducibility, version‑control, schema design, lineage, single‑source of truth., • You think in terms of systems and longevity, not just one‑off ETL scripts, and embrace end‑to‑end ownership from low‑level performance to user interfaces. Our Forward Deployed Engineers will have the opportunity to work on diverse projects, and to expand their skillset, but will add particular value when they can match their data engineering expertise with domain knowledge relevant to a project. We would value: • Experience preparing data for ML: pre‑training, post‑training, and evaluations., • Scientific background, with experience or qualifications in genomics, proteomics, or other related fields., • Experience in bioinformatics and use of industry‑standard tooling such as NextFlow., • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services, • 2 days per week in Oxford office, 1 day per week in employee's choice of Oxford or London office, 2 days per week work from any UK location., • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case‑by‑case basis. #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. At EIT we are seeking an experienced and detail orientated Team Coordinator to provide high-level administrative and operational support to senior leaders and the Treasury Manager within the Finance team. Reporting to the EA supporting the Finance Director and Senior Director of Legal, Compliance & Commercial Projects (LCC), the Team Coordinator will play a key role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the Finance function, coordinating priorities, meetings and administrative processes. Whilst the role will be primarily focused on Finance, there will also be opportunities to provide ad hoc support to the LCC team. This is a busy and varied role, offering the opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders, gain exposure to different areas of the organisation and contribute to the effective running of the wider team. • Deliver day-to-day administrative duties including agendas, briefings, emails, and management of expenses and invoices., • Support team activities and coordination, including working alongside EAs where applicable., • Strategically manage diaries for a group of senior leaders., • Manage relationships for multiple leaders and liaise with internal and external partners., • Book travel, catering, and logistics; liaise with EIT’s travel agent for team events., • Identify and implement process improvements., • Support the administration and reconciliation of central purchasing and corporate credit cards, ensuring transactions are accurately recorded, supported by receipts and documentation, and compliant with internal policies and controls., • Support the administration and maintenance of treasury records, systems and data within Oracle Fusion, including supplier bank account verification and internal controls., • Assist with employee expense claims, ensuring compliance with the organisation's expense and travel policies., • Act as the first point of contact for treasury related queries, triaging requests or escalating matters to the appropriate team to ensure timely resolution., • Significant administrative experience supporting senior leaders., • Strong organisation and multi-tasking skills., • Proficient in Microsoft 365 and digital collaboration tools., • Experience with event coordination and stakeholder engagement., • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills., • Organised and proactive, anticipating team needs., • Collaborative and adaptable within a dynamic environment., • Professional, discreet, and reliable., • Analytical and detail-oriented., • Competitive Salary + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services, • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. Please note we are not able to offer sponsorship for this role., • You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate) and can commit to being office based during the working week. #J-18808-Ljbffr

At EIT we are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our Scientific Compute and Data team. Our Data Engineers in Autonomous Systems work within a wider project, AutoLabs. This is where EIT automates the scientific discovery loop: experimental design, execution, analysis, and the learning that feeds back into the next experiment and the lab itself. The AutoLabs data platform captures, stores and serves high-frequency multimodal data. It spans an edge-to-cloud telemetry stack (MQTT, Kafka, media streams such as HLS), streaming APIs, and a growing set of hardware integrations across multiple sites including robotic systems, sensor rigs and lab instruments. Our labs produce raw data for a fast-growing set of models: vision-language-action models, orchestration and monitoring models, and world models that learn the dynamics of a laboratory to simulate experiments before they are run. As a Data Engineer, you'll work directly alongside AI researchers, software engineers, robotics engineers, and domain scientists to build the data layer that makes our autonomous operations possible. You will contribute to an engineering culture that values robust system design, testing, and deep collaboration, but allows flexibility for rapid prototyping and responsiveness to changing landscapes. Day-to-Day, You Might: • Build high-throughput, low-latency ingestion for live video, sensor telemetry, robot joint state and instrument control signals, integrating validation at the edge before data reaches the cloud., • Work across the edge-to-cloud stack, from edge devices and MQTT brokers through to Kafka topics, cloud storage, and the APIs that serve scientists and ML pipelines., • Turn streams of robot state, instrument output and video into structured database transactions: which arm did what to which sample, when, and what came out., • Build the knowledge graph on top of that, linking inputs to results, so that a fact can always be traced back to the video segment and sensor readings behind it., • Make the output model-ready: the formats, sampling, labelling and provenance that training and evaluation need, working directly with the researchers who consume it., Automated lab or life sciences environments - instrument APIs, lab protocols, and what scientists expect of data quality., • Data pipelines for physical systems: robotics (e.g. MQTT), autonomous vehicles, lab or clinical instruments, industrial control, or similar environments., • Knowledge, entity, search or feed systems where correctness under continuous update was the hard part., • Stateful stream processing (Flink, Kafka Streams, Beam or similar): event time, watermarks, exactly-once., • APIs for data ingestion and consumption with FastAPI, gRPC or GraphQL., • Graph stores and entity resolution or curation at scale, where the interesting decisions are about what to keep, merge or drop., • Experience working close to model development, such as curating training or evaluation data, or building the data systems that feed models. You don't need to be a machine learning engineer, but you should know what makes a dataset good. You have strong programming experience in Python, and value code quality, reliability, and performance while adapting to an evolving industry., • You think in systems and own them end-to-end - from device output to APIs - and embrace long-term engineering rather than one-off scripts., • Experience with real-time data streaming - Kafka or Pub/Sub (or equivalent), and the challenges that come with high-frequency, low-latency data capture., • You treat reproducibility, version control, schema design and lineage as the things that make good science possible., • A clear, respectful communicator who can collaborate with scientists, roboticists and researchers. At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas:, • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org . The Scientific Compute and Data Team The Scientific Compute and Data team builds the compute, data and tooling foundation behind EIT's science. We run the cloud and GPU infrastructure that the models train on, the data infrastructure that instruments, robots and researchers use, and the data products and shared data models that let one team's results be built on by the next. We provide hands-on expertise in platform engineering, data engineering, and data management, and create common tooling for every lab to accelerate their experiments across gene editing, battery chemistry, plant biology and more. • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services, • 2 days per week in Oxford office, 1 day per week in employee's choice of Oxford or London office, 2 days per week work from any UK location., • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas for lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. Welcome to the Pathogen Project: Within this ecosystem, the Pathogen Project exemplifies EIT's dedication to ground-breaking science. It seeks to transform pathogen risk management, detection and response by leveraging Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)-based metagenomic and pathogen-specific analytical tools. The goal is to power metagenomic devices using long-read sequencing technologies by building a comprehensive database of pathogen information to inform response. Enabled by Oracle Inc.'s cloud-computing scale and security, the Pathogen Project is advancing toward certified diagnostic tools for deployment in laboratories, hospitals, and public health organisations worldwide. Your Role: At EIT we are seeking an experienced and detailed orientated Platform Engineer to help manage and develop the infrastructure behind our data platform, ensuring it is secure, scalable, and efficient. Working closely with data engineers and DevSecOps specialists, you'll support research teams by enabling advanced bioinformatics workflows and cloud-based solutions. This position offers the chance to contribute to a programme focused on improving global health through pathogen genomics and cutting-edge technology. Key Responsibilities • Manage object data storage, ensuring efficient design, tiering, and access controls, • Build and maintain the research compute environment for bioinformatics pipelines and interactive analytics, • Ensure the data platform complies with disaster recovery standards, • Manage cloud resources to set standards and automate deployments, • Collaborate with the AI and Robotics team to contribute to and reuse modular assets using Terraform code models, • Automate the deployment of tools within the research environment, • Monitor all platform components for availability, cost, and performance, • Support R&D activities to test novel approaches and Oracle Cloud usage, • Support data ingestion from a global network of distributed sequencing devices, • Maintain platform security in alignment with EIT standards, • Work with architects and engineers to build optimized data platform components, including genomic variant stores, sequence stores, and pathogen analytics databases, • Partner with the DevSecOps engineer to automate deployments using a standard toolchain, • Enable engineers to perform common tasks through automated self-service scripts, • Support system administration and operations across environments, • Collaborate with engineers to learn from incidents and implement improvements Requirements Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Experience • Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally Oracle Cloud, including provisioning, configuration, and service management, • Ability to automate processes using Terraform and appropriate toolchains, • In-depth knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, • Solid understanding of cloud security best practices, including IAM, network security, and encryption, • Experience with Git or other version control systems Desirable Knowledge, Skills, And Experience • Certifications in Oracle Cloud (OCI) or other platforms (AWS, GCP), • Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar project management tools, • Knowledge of compliance frameworks and standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, ISO27001, ISO13485) Key Attributes • Strong collaboration skills, • Willingness to learn and cross-train in new technologies, • Hands-on approach to exploring new technologies and developing POCs, • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to address security challenges critically, • Effective communication and teamwork abilities, especially in cross-functional teams, • Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment, • Attention to detail and commitment to security and quality assurance, • Flexibility to adapt and contribute to a rapidly scaling organization Benefits We offer the following benefits: • Enhanced holiday pay, • Pension, • Life Assurance, • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance, • Hospital Cash Plan, • Therapy Services, • Perk Box, • Electrical Car Scheme Working Together - What It Involves: • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis, • You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate) #J-18808-Ljbffr

Join EIT’s AutoLabs team to design, build, and deploy robotic systems that automate scientific work. This is a hands‑on role focused on mechanical design and integration, working across electrical systems, software, and control. You will bring these disciplines together to turn scientific requirements and working prototypes into reliable, maintainable machines used in laboratories. The role requires a strong systems engineering approach: understanding how the complete machine should behave, managing dependencies between subsystems, and verifying performance at system level. You will work with automation scientists and specialist engineers from requirements and concept development through build, commissioning, and operational use. You will use iterative hardware development practices to test assumptions early, improve designs through practical evidence, and productionise prototypes while maintaining appropriate safety and configuration controls. We welcome engineers with applied, deployment, or product development experience in industrial automation, robotics, manufacturing, instrumentation, or related fields. Previous laboratory automation experience is valuable but is not essential. You will be required to work in Oxford 4 days a week for this role. • Translate scientific workflows and user needs into system requirements, operating concepts, interfaces, and measurable acceptance criteria., • Develop integrated robotic and automation system concepts, evaluating trade‑offs across mechanical, electrical, software, control, safety, and operational needs., • Design and develop mechanisms, end‑effectors, fixtures, motion assemblies, and machine structures, considering manufacture, assembly, cleaning, and servicing., • Specify and mechanically integrate sensors, actuators, drives, and control hardware, working with electrical and controls specialists on wiring and interfaces., • Adapt robot programs and control sequences to support mechanical integration and testing, working with software and controls specialists on equipment coordination, sensing, and fault recovery., • Plan iterative hardware development through focused prototypes, staged integration, design reviews, and short build‑test‑learn cycles., • Maintain system interfaces, design baselines, and configuration records so hardware and software changes remain compatible and traceable., • Assemble, commission, calibrate, and troubleshoot complete systems in the workshop and at deployment sites, resolving integration issues under operational conditions., • Contribute to machinery risk assessments and hazard reviews, translating findings into design measures, guarding, interlocks, and safe operating and maintenance arrangements., • Plan and carry out verification and validation, covering performance, reliability, foreseeable misuse, fault conditions, and recovery from interrupted operation., • Productionise prototypes and support deployment, working with scientists, technicians, and suppliers to improve usability, repeatability, and maintainability., • Degree or equivalent practical experience in Robotics, Mechatronics, Mechanical, Electrical/Electronic, Control, or a related engineering discipline., • Experience delivering integrated robotic, automated, or electromechanical systems through build, on‑site commissioning, deployment, and troubleshooting in operational environments., • Practical systems engineering experience, including requirements capture, functional decomposition, interface definition, trade studies, and system‑level verification and validation., • Strong mechanical design capability, with practical understanding of electrical integration, software, and controls., • Experience applying agile or iterative hardware development practices, using prototypes and test evidence to reduce uncertainty and guide design decisions., • Experience managing changes across interconnected hardware and software, including configuration control and assessment of system‑wide effects., • Experience designing mechanical assemblies using 3D CAD and producing engineering drawings for manufacture and assembly, with the ability to interpret electrical schematics., • Ability to develop or modify automation software and control logic using relevant tools, such as Python, C++, PLC programming, or robot programming environments., • Practical understanding of machinery hazards, risk assessment, and safe design principles, including the distinction between operational software controls and safety‑related functions., • Systematic fault‑finding skills and experience testing complete systems against defined requirements., • Ability to collaborate with scientists, users, and specialist engineers and communicate engineering decisions clearly., • Experience productionising prototypes or developing machines for sustained operational use., • Experience with industrial or collaborative robots, custom tooling, precision handling, or multi‑axis motion systems., • Experience contributing to machinery safety assessments, safety‑related control design, or conformity assessment with competent specialists., • Familiarity with failure analysis techniques such as FMEA and their use in design and test planning., • Experience with design for manufacture and assembly, component sourcing, and supplier coordination., • Familiarity with communications middleware and industrial protocols connecting equipment, controllers, and automation software., • Experience with machine vision, calibration, simulation, or automated system testing., • Experience with modular automation or laboratory processes requiring controlled handling and cleaning., • Thinks about the complete system and takes ownership of how its parts work together., • Practical and resourceful, moving comfortably between design, programming, assembly, and commissioning., • Balances rapid iteration with safety, engineering discipline, and dependable operation., • Uses test evidence to make decisions and challenge assumptions., • Collaborative, curious, and attentive to the needs of scientists, operators, and maintainers. Enhanced holiday pay Pension Life Assurance Income Protection Private Medical Insurance Hospital Cash Plan Therapy Services Perk Box Electric Car Scheme At the Ellison Institute, we believe a collaborative, inclusive team is key to our success. We are building a supportive environment where creative risks are encouraged, and everyone feels heard. Valuing emotional intelligence, empathy, respect, and resilience, we encourage people to be curious and to have a shared commitment to excellence. Join us and make an impact! #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world-class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting-edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant-based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state-of-the-art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long-term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. Researchers will have access to state-of-the-art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long-term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Scientist in plant physiology to join its pioneering Plant Biology Institute to contribute to the ‘Photosynthesis and Yield’ programme. This initiative seeks to advance fundamental and applied science in photosynthesis, carbon assimilation, and crop yield improvement to translate findings into commercial opportunities aligned with EIT’s mission of humane and sustainable innovation. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing and conducting experiments aligned with stage-gated milestones in our plant engineering programme. They will bring strong expertise in photosynthesis, carbon fixation, or yield-related pathways, combined with hands-on experience in gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence, and field work. They should be comfortable changing how biological systems behave, not just describing them. This role offers a unique opportunity to conduct high-impact research at the forefront of plant science while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation from lab to global impact. The scientist will be expected to contribute to publications and IP generation and play an active role in translating research into real-world and commercial solutions aligned with EIT’s mission of humane technological advancement. This role offers a unique opportunity to conduct high-impact research at the forefront of plant science while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation from lab to global impact. • Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to achieve research goals., • Design, conduct and analyse experiments to assess aspects of plant physiology under a variety of environmental conditions., • Develop of protocols to explore physiological basis of plant phenotypes., • Provide expert advice for strategic decision making., • Assist in the translation of scientific results into commercial opportunities consistent with the EIT humane endeavours., • Recognise and act on opportunities for the creation of IP and cooperating in patent protection and in impact delivery., • PhD in plant physiology or related discipline., • Demonstrated competency in relevant research skills including:, • Extensive experience measuring photosynthesis using pulse amplitude modulated chlorophyll fluorescence analysis., • Extensive experience measuring photosynthesis using pulse amplitude modulated chlorophyll fluorescence analysis., • Demonstrated ability to plan, conduct and analyse experiments to assess growth and biomass., • Ability to plan and conduct independent research to the highest standard., • Ability to perform data analysis, model fitting, statistical evaluation, and visualisation., • Experience handling large datasets with programming languages such as R and/or Python., • Experience collecting and analysing carbon isotope discrimination data for estimating mesophyll conductance and BS leakiness., • Experience designing planning and executing field trials., • Experience working with controlled drought experiments., • Experience measuring photosynthesis at different scales, from the cell to canopy., • Experience with biochemical assays., • Experience characterising transgenic plants., • Experience with molecular analyses., • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services #J-18808-Ljbffr

Join us at EIT: At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org . The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world-class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting-edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. Areas of exploration include: • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant-based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state-of-the-art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long-term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. Your Role: We are seeking a visionary and accomplished Group Leader/Senior Group Leader in Advanced Genome Technologies to lead a transformative research programme at the forefront of plant biotechnology. This senior leadership role is integral to shaping a newly established and rapidly scaling Plant Biology Institute that aspires to become a global leader in delivering scientific breakthroughs with real-world impact. The successful candidate will establish and lead a world-class research programme in advanced genome technologies and/or next-generation plant transformation approaches working at the cutting edge of plant biotechnology, developing new and enhanced methods for genetic manipulation, plant regeneration, and DNA/RNA delivery to plants that enable a step change in our technological ability to engineer plants. They will build and manage a high-performing, interdisciplinary team, develop cross-sector collaborations, and ensure research excellence is translated into commercial opportunities aligned with EIT's mission of humane and sustainable innovation. This is a rare opportunity to define the scientific direction of a next-generation research hub addressing some of the planet's most pressing challenges. Your Responsibilities: Leadership: • Contribute to the development and expansion of a newly established plant sciences research institute which is aiming to scale rapidly over the next 5 years to become a global leader in plant science research aimed at tackling humanity's greatest challenges., • Establish, lead, and continuously evolve a flagship research programme in advanced genome technologies, with a particular emphasis on novel plant transformation, plant regeneration, and/or novel DNA/RNA delivery systems., • To work with internal teams to define the path to impact for the research program. To design and execute research programs and to ensure that all research programs are value and purpose driven., • To recruit and lead a top talent team of research scientists including group leaders, post docs and PhD candidates. To hire based on competency, experience and values. To manage based on clear performance targets and with accountability. To maintain a positive, engaged culture, in line with EIT Oxford values. Research designed for impact: • Contribute to planning and communicating the scientific direction of the advanced genome technology program which is aimed at changing the art of the possible in plant engineering through advances in plant transformation technologies (large scale DNA delivery, targeted insertions, engineering agrobacterium, high throughput approaches and/or automation), • Direct the activities of the research group by supervising some projects personally and overseeing projects delegated to group members. You will be expected to provide the intellectual energy and independent thinking necessary to lead a programme of cutting-edge research and to shape the overall aims and success of the group., • Drive rigorous experimental design, execution, and data interpretation, ensuring robust and reproducible scientific outcomes., • Managing research program through stage gated milestones, with active, no/no-go decisions based on validated research data. Designing research programmes to enable delivery requirements to be considered through development and implementation. Identifying pre-emptive decisions to enable future scale-up., • Manage project resources - including personnel, equipment, and budgets - in coordination with the senior leadership team., • Ensure research is conducted ethically and in compliance with EIT policy, regulatory guidance, and best scientific practice., • To generate, maintain and manage collaborations with key teams across EIT Oxford and in the wider scientific and commercial ecosystem to accelerate the path to scientific discovery and impact. To maintain key stakeholder relationships., • To work, where appropriate, with the translation team within EIT to translate the results of research into commercial opportunities consistent with EITs humane endeavours. To recognise and act on opportunities for the creation and protection of intellectual property. Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience: • Leader of research group(s) within academia or industry., • Recognised thought leader in their field., • Proven ability to manage scientific output for a team of PhDs/Post doctoral researchers., • Experience delivering against long term strategic research programs., • Experience of managing a large team of researchers and scientists including interdisciplinary workstream integration., • Demonstration of commercial awareness and versatility of research that could serve a wide range of different applications. Development of partnerships with engineering, technical partners and licensees/channel partners., • Project management, communication and resource allocation experience., • Ability to build both internal and external relationships. Working collaboratively with others outside of their discipline. Our Benefits: • Competitive salary + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday + options to buy additional days, • Pension, • Life Assurance, • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance, • Hospital Cash Plan, • Therapy Services, • Perk Box, • Electric Car Scheme, • Childcare benefit What we offer: • Newly constructed, state-of-the-art laboratories and growth facilities, core scientific and operational support, and substantial core funding., • A collaborative research environment with highly skilled team working at the cutting edge of plant science to create commercially sustainable solutions that tackle humanity's biggest challenges, including enabling sustainable agriculture and improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production., • Opportunities for professional development including publication, conferences, IP portfolio creation, spin-out generation, and leadership development. #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at . Welcome to the Pathogen Program Within this ecosystem, the Pathogen Mission exemplifies EIT’s commitment to transformative science. It aims to revolutionise the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases by leveraging whole genome sequencing (WGS)-based metagenomic and pathogen-specific analytical tools. This remit includes the development of a decentralised, sample-to-answer sequencing diagnostic platform for infectious diseases, enabling rapid and accurate analysis of patient samples without prior assumptions. Supported by Oracle Inc.’s cloud-computing scale and security infrastructure, the Pathogen Mission is progressing towards certified diagnostic products for deployment in laboratories, hospitals, and public health organisations worldwide. Your Role We are seeking an experienced and innovative Senior Electronics R&D Engineer to develop advanced electronic interfaces, instrumentation, and measurement systems for next-generation nanopore sequencing technologies. This is a hands-on role within an ambitious early-stage development programme, taking technologies from proof of concept through to integrated, multi-channel sensing systems. Working closely with a Senior MEMS Development Engineer, you will design, build, and test experimental electronics, develop custom instrumentation, and optimise prototype devices through iterative development. Key areas of focus include precision analogue measurement, low-noise circuit design, multi-channel data acquisition, electronic control systems, and system integration. You will translate emerging concepts into working prototypes, identify technical limitations, and drive continuous improvement based on experimental data. The role also involves collaborating with external suppliers and technical partners, defining requirements, overseeing outsourced development, and evaluating resulting components and systems. As the programme grows, you will help establish the electrical engineering capabilities, testing infrastructure, and technical foundations needed to support a multidisciplinary development team. Key Responsibilities • Take technical ownership of the electrical engineering development of advanced electronic interfaces and measurement systems, from early concepts through to functional prototypes and integrated devices., • Design, build and commission custom electronic test equipment and experimental platforms to characterise electrical performance, reliability and repeatability., • Develop prototype electronic circuits and sensing architectures, including multi-channel analogue measurement systems, signal conditioning and data-acquisition electronics., • Work closely with the Senior MEMS Development Engineer to co-develop and evaluate prototype devices, using experimental findings to guide iterative improvements in device and instrumentation design., • Design and implement sensitive, low-noise measurement systems capable of characterising electrical currents in the picoampere range., • Develop automated testing and data-acquisition methods to assess electrical and sensing performance, including software for instrument control and data analysis., • Investigate electrical noise, leakage currents, signal integrity, parasitic effects and cross-talk in multi-channel sensing systems., • Develop and evaluate approaches to electrical grounding, shielding and electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection for sensitive electronic and electrochemical systems., • Collaborate with mechanical, MEMS and other engineering disciplines to develop experimental fixtures, prototype assemblies and integrated test platforms., • Design increasingly sophisticated electronic test platforms as the project progresses, supporting the transition from initial feasibility studies to integrated nanopore sensing systems., • Define technical requirements and specifications for external engineering suppliers, including the design and fabrication of custom electronics, components and specialist test equipment., • Coordinate technical activities with external suppliers and collaborators, reviewing designs, monitoring progress and evaluating deliverables against agreed performance requirements., • Plan and execute structured experiments, analyse performance data and translate findings into engineering requirements and design improvements., • Contribute to component selection, prototype fabrication, supplier engagement and assessments of manufacturability, scalability and cost., • Maintain clear technical documentation, design records and experimental results, contributing to intellectual property development and technical reviews while ensuring appropriate confidentiality., • Provide technical guidance and mentoring as the engineering team expands, helping establish robust engineering practices and development processes. Knowledge, Skills and Experience We welcome applicants from industry, applied research and academia who can demonstrate strong technical expertise and practical engineering capability. • Degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Physics or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience., • Significant experience in electronic engineering research and development, ideally involving novel instrumentation, sensor systems or precision measurement technologies., • Strong understanding of analogue and mixed-signal electronics, including low-noise circuit design, signal conditioning and measurement techniques., • Proven experience designing, building and debugging electronic hardware, including custom circuits, printed circuit boards and laboratory test systems., • Practical experience developing experimental instrumentation using laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, source-measure units, precision current measurement systems and data-acquisition hardware., • Experience developing or integrating electronic control, switching or multi-channel measurement systems., • Ability to develop automated test methods, including scripting or programming for instrument control, data acquisition and analysis., • Experience planning and executing structured experimental programmes to characterise complex electronic systems and resolve technical challenges., • Strong understanding of electrical signal integrity, grounding, shielding and methods for minimising noise and interference., • Ability to work independently, establish technical direction and deliver working prototypes in an early-stage R&D environment., • Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and translating requirements between electronics, mechanical engineering and device fabrication., • Ability to develop clear technical specifications and work effectively with external engineering suppliers, development partners or specialist fabricators. Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience • Experience with picoampere or similarly sensitive current measurements, including transimpedance amplifiers, leakage-current management and low-noise analogue front-end design., • Knowledge of electrochemical sensing, biosensors, nanopore technologies or other low-current sensor systems., • Experience with semiconductor devices, MEMS interfaces, microelectronic packaging or electronic sensor integration., • Familiarity with ASIC interfaces, FPGA-based control, electronic multiplexing or multi-channel sensor-readout architectures., • Experience developing test equipment for evaluating the electrical performance and reliability of prototype devices., • Knowledge of ESD protection strategies for sensitive electronic devices or electrochemical sensors., • Experience with Python, LabVIEW or similar tools for automated test equipment, instrument control and data analysis., • Familiarity with precision PCB design techniques, guarding, shielding and control of parasitic capacitance., • Experience integrating prototype electronics with microfabricated devices, fluidic systems or other multidisciplinary hardware., • Experience working with external engineering companies or specialist suppliers to develop, fabricate and qualify custom components or instrumentation., • Understanding of design for manufacture, engineering reliability and transitioning prototype systems towards scalable production. Key Attributes • Hands-on and inventive: Enjoys solving technical challenges through practical engineering, experimentation and rapid prototyping., • Comfortable with early-stage R&D: Able to work effectively where solutions are not yet established and technical requirements evolve through experimentation., • Analytical and systematic: Uses sound engineering judgement and quantitative evidence to understand complex behaviour and guide design decisions., • Collaborative: Works closely with specialists in MEMS, mechanical engineering, chemistry and electronics, as well as external technical partners, to develop integrated solutions., • Independent and proactive: Can establish experimental capabilities, identify priorities and progress technical work with limited existing infrastructure., • Technically ambitious: Motivated by challenging engineering problems and developing technologies with the potential for substantial real-world impact., • Clear communicator: Able to explain complex technical challenges, document findings and communicate requirements effectively with colleagues, suppliers and external collaborators. Our Benefits: • Salary: Competitive + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday pay, • Pension, • Life Assurance, • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance, • Hospital Cash Plan, • Therapy Services, • Perk Box, • Electric Car Scheme Working Together – What It Involves: • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis., • You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate)., • You must be eligible to work in the UK with occasional travel (1-3 trips per year). #J-18808-Ljbffr

Join EIT's AI and Robotics team to build AI agents that help scientists plan and carry out research. Our LifeAI platform connects models, scientific tools, data and compute so researchers can investigate questions, run analyses and review results. You will build agent skills, tool integrations and evaluations, initially for protein design and enzyme engineering. Your work will help agents propose workflows, explain their assumptions, execute reviewed plans and produce candidates and evidence for experimental testing. Reporting to the Lead Software Engineer, you will work with scientific product managers, researchers and platform teams. You will build on EIT's existing agent framework and scientific tools, with programme scientists providing domain guidance and scientific review. This is a hands‑on engineering role focused on making AI useful in research. • Turn scientific objectives and constraints into agent instructions, tool inputs and candidate checks, working with scientists and product managers., • Build agent workflows that retrieve relevant evidence, propose design steps and explain assumptions, uncertainties and decisions requiring scientific review., • Integrate scientific tools, models and calculators; validate inputs, interpret outputs and handle failures., • Connect workflows to data storage, compute, approval and progress-reporting capabilities, working with the data and platform teams., • Implement candidate generation, filtering and ranking against agreed criteria. Prepare sequences and supporting results for scientist review and experimental testing, including gene synthesis where required., • Build workflow-specific reference cases and regression checks using shared evaluation tooling. Compare permitted models and configurations for task quality, completion, speed and cost., • Investigate failures in reasoning, tool use and execution; improve agent instructions, context handling and code using evaluation results and scientist feedback., • Record input references, tool and model versions, parameters and output locations so results can be inspected and reproduced., • Write tested, maintainable code, contribute to reviews and support deployed workflows. Reuse components as scientific programmes expand. If you meet most of these, we'd like to hear from you. • You have shipped multi-step agentic workflows with tool integrations and context management., • You have built reusable agent skills or tool interfaces, for example with MCP., • You write APIs and data‑handling code with automated tests and version control., • You have integrated tools or services and handled invalid inputs, asynchronous execution and partial failures., • You can turn examples and failure cases into repeatable evaluations. You use evaluation results to change how an agent behaves, not just to report on it., • You can work with domain experts and turn unfamiliar requirements into testable software. These are optional; you do not need to meet them to apply. • Familiarity with protein design, enzyme engineering, computational biology or scientific software., • Experience integrating sequence or structure analysis, molecular modelling or protein‑design tools., • Experience with literature retrieval, evidence‑linked reporting or scientific data formats., • Familiarity with workflow engines, containers, cloud or HPC compute, and data‑access controls., • Enhanced holiday pay, • Pension, • Life Assurance, • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance, • Hospital Cash Plan, • Therapy Services, • Perk Box, • Electric Car Scheme At the Ellison Institute, we believe a collaborative, inclusive team is key to our success. We are building a supportive environment where creative risks are encouraged, and everyone feels heard. Valuing emotional intelligence, empathy, respect, and resilience, we encourage people to be curious and to have a shared commitment to excellence. Join us and make an impact! #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at eit.org Within this ecosystem, the Pathogen Mission exemplifies EIT’s commitment to transformative science. It aims to revolutionise the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases by leveraging whole genome sequencing (WGS)-based metagenomic and pathogen‑specific analytical tools. This remit includes the development of a decentralised, sample‑to‑answer sequencing diagnostic platform for infectious diseases, enabling rapid and accurate analysis of patient samples without prior assumptions. Supported by Oracle Inc.’s cloud‑computing scale and security infrastructure, the Pathogen Mission is progressing towards certified diagnostic products for deployment in laboratories, hospitals, and public health organisations worldwide. We are seeking an experienced and innovative Senior Electronics R&D Engineer to develop advanced electronic interfaces, instrumentation, and measurement systems for next‑generation nanopore sequencing technologies. This is a hands‑on role within an ambitious early‑stage development programme, taking technologies from proof of concept through to integrated, multi‑channel sensing systems. Working closely with a Senior MEMS Development Engineer, you will design, build, and test experimental electronics, develop custom instrumentation, and optimise prototype devices through iterative development. Key areas of focus include precision analogue measurement, low‑noise circuit design, multi‑channel data acquisition, electronic control systems, and system integration. You will translate emerging concepts into working prototypes, identify technical limitations, and drive continuous improvement based on experimental data. The role also involves collaborating with external suppliers and technical partners, defining requirements, overseeing outsourced development, and evaluating resulting components and systems. As the programme grows, you will help establish the electrical engineering capabilities, testing infrastructure, and technical foundations needed to support a multidisciplinary development team. • Take technical ownership of the electrical engineering development of advanced electronic interfaces and measurement systems, from early concepts through to functional prototypes and integrated devices., • Design, build and commission custom electronic test equipment and experimental platforms to characterise electrical performance, reliability and repeatability., • Develop prototype electronic circuits and sensing architectures, including multi‑channel analogue measurement systems, signal conditioning and data‑acquisition electronics., • Work closely with the Senior MEMS Development Engineer to co‑develop and evaluate prototype devices, using experimental findings to guide iterative improvements in device and instrumentation design., • Design and implement sensitive, low‑noise measurement systems capable of characterising electrical currents in the picoampere range., • Develop automated testing and data‑acquisition methods to assess electrical and sensing performance, including software for instrument control and data analysis., • Investigate electrical noise, leakage currents, signal integrity, parasitic effects and cross‑talk in multi‑channel sensing systems., • Develop and evaluate approaches to electrical grounding, shielding and electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection for sensitive electronic and electrochemical systems., • Collaborate with mechanical, MEMS and other engineering disciplines to develop experimental fixtures, prototype assemblies and integrated test platforms., • Design increasingly sophisticated electronic test platforms as the project progresses, supporting the transition from initial feasibility studies to integrated nanopore sensing systems., • Define technical requirements and specifications for external engineering suppliers, including the design and fabrication of custom electronics, components and specialist test equipment., • Coordinate technical activities with external suppliers and collaborators, reviewing designs, monitoring progress and evaluating deliverables against agreed performance requirements., • Plan and execute structured experiments, analyse performance data and translate findings into engineering requirements and design improvements., • Contribute to component selection, prototype fabrication, supplier engagement and assessments of manufacturability, scalability and cost., • Maintain clear technical documentation, design records and experimental results, contributing to intellectual property development and technical reviews while ensuring appropriate confidentiality., • Provide technical guidance and mentoring as the engineering team expands, helping establish robust engineering practices and development processes. We welcome applicants from industry, applied research and academia who can demonstrate strong technical expertise and practical engineering capability. • Degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Physics or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience., • Significant experience in electronic engineering research and development, ideally involving novel instrumentation, sensor systems or precision measurement technologies., • Strong understanding of analogue and mixed‑signal electronics, including low‑noise circuit design, signal conditioning and measurement techniques., • Proven experience designing, building and debugging electronic hardware, including custom circuits, printed circuit boards and laboratory test systems., • Practical experience developing experimental instrumentation using laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, source‑measure units, precision current measurement systems and data‑acquisition hardware., • Experience developing or integrating electronic control, switching or multi‑channel measurement systems., • Ability to develop automated test methods, including scripting or programming for instrument control, data acquisition and analysis., • Experience planning and executing structured experimental programmes to characterise complex electronic systems and resolve technical challenges., • Strong understanding of electrical signal integrity, grounding, shielding and methods for minimising noise and interference., • Ability to work independently, establish technical direction and deliver working prototypes in an early‑stage R&D environment., • Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and translating requirements between electronics, mechanical engineering and device fabrication., • Ability to develop clear technical specifications and work effectively with external engineering suppliers, development partners or specialist fabricators., • Experience with picoampere or similarly sensitive current measurements, including transimpedance amplifiers, leakage‑current management and low‑noise analogue front‑end design., • Knowledge of electrochemical sensing, biosensors, nanopore technologies or other low‑current sensor systems., • Experience with semiconductor devices, MEMS interfaces, microelectronic packaging or electronic sensor integration., • Familiarity with ASIC interfaces, FPGA‑based control, electronic multiplexing or multi‑channel sensor‑readout architectures., • Experience developing test equipment for evaluating the electrical performance and reliability of prototype devices., • Knowledge of ESD protection strategies for sensitive electronic devices or electrochemical sensors., • Experience with Python, LabVIEW or similar tools for automated test equipment, instrument control and data analysis., • Familiarity with precision PCB design techniques, guarding, shielding and control of parasitic capacitance., • Experience integrating prototype electronics with microfabricated devices, fluidic systems or other multidisciplinary hardware., • Experience working with external engineering companies or specialist suppliers to develop, fabricate and qualify custom components or instrumentation., • Understanding of design for manufacture, engineering reliability and transitioning prototype systems towards scalable production., • Hands‑on and inventive: Enjoys solving technical challenges through practical engineering, experimentation and rapid prototyping., • Comfortable with early‑stage R&D: Able to work effectively where solutions are not yet established and technical requirements evolve through experimentation., • Analytical and systematic: Uses sound engineering judgement and quantitative evidence to understand complex behaviour and guide design decisions., • Collaborative: Works closely with specialists in MEMS, mechanical engineering, chemistry and electronics, as well as external technical partners, to develop integrated solutions., • Independent and proactive: Can establish experimental capabilities, identify priorities and progress technical work with limited existing infrastructure., • Technically ambitious: Motivated by challenging engineering problems and developing technologies with the potential for substantial real‑world impact., • Clear communicator: Able to explain complex technical challenges, document findings and communicate requirements effectively with colleagues, suppliers and external collaborators., • Salary: Competitive + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday pay, • Pension, • Life Assurance, • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance, • Hospital Cash Plan, • Therapy Services, • Perk Box, • Electric Car Scheme, • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case‑by‑case basis., • You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate)., • You must be eligible to work in the UK with occasional travel (1-3 trips per year). #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO–2, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work – work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real‑world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. Within this ecosystem, the Pathogen Mission exemplifies EIT’s commitment to transformative science. It aims to revolutionise the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases by leveraging whole genome sequencing (WGS)-based metagenomic and pathogen-specific analytical tools. This remit includes the development of a decentralised, sample-to-answer sequencing diagnostic platform for infectious diseases, enabling rapid and accurate analysis of patient samples without prior assumptions. Supported by Oracle Inc.’s cloud-computing scale and security infrastructure, the Pathogen Mission is progressing towards certified diagnostic products for deployment in laboratories, hospitals, and public health organisations worldwide. At EIT we are seeking an experienced and detail-orientated Microfluidics Engineer / Scientist to help develop next-generation diagnostic technology. In this role, you’ll work alongside experts in microfluidics, microbiology, electronics and firmware to design, build and iterate prototype instrumentation for a point-of-care device capable of metagenomic sequencing through a microfluidic cartridge interface. You will take a hands‑on role in translating microfluidic workflows into robust, system-ready implementations, working at the interface between cartridge design and automated instrumentation. This will involve designing and running experiments, supporting integration of microfluidic systems with actuation and control hardware, and resolving real‑world challenges related to fluid behavior, timing, sealing and system interaction. You will contribute directly to the development of decentralised diagnostic systems aimed at improving infectious disease detection in hospitals and public health settings worldwide. • Design, develop and improve microfluidic systems and cartridge architectures for use within automated instrumentation., • Translate biological assay requirements into practical microfluidic designs suitable for automation., • Define and refine interfaces between cartridge and instrument, including fluidic, mechanical and thermal interactions., • Collaborate with instrumentation, electronics and firmware engineers to ensure cartridge designs work effectively with automated actuation and control systems., • Support integration of microfluidic cartridges into prototype systems, including hands‑on testing, troubleshooting and system-level validation., • Prototype and test microfluidic designs using appropriate fabrication techniques, such as soft lithography, machining and rapid prototyping., • Design and execute experiments to evaluate cartridge performance, including yield, efficiency and repeatability., • Identify and help resolve fluidic, mechanical and assay-related failure modes., • Contribute to improving robustness, manufacturability and ease of use of cartridge designs., • Document designs, test results and iteration outcomes clearly and systematically., • Contribute to design reviews and technical decision-making within the microfluidics domain. We welcome applicants with a range of experiences and career paths. You may have gained relevant expertise in industry, applied research or academia. • BSc or BEng (or equivalent) in Engineering, Physics, Bioengineering, or related field with specialisation in microfluidics, MEMS, or lab-on-a-chip systems, • 4+ years’ experience in microfluidics, lab‑on‑chip systems, or related areas (industry or applied research)., • Experience designing and developing microfluidic systems, devices or closely related technologies., • Understanding of fluid behaviour at small scales, including areas such as mixing, flow control or multiphase systems., • Experience working with biological or chemical assays, ideally within microfluidic or closely related systems., • Practical experience in prototyping and testing devices or experimental systems., • Experience designing for integration with external systems, such as actuators, pumps or thermal systems., • Ability to design and run structured experiments to evaluate system performance., • Experience troubleshooting and improving performance in complex systems., • Familiarity with CAD or similar design tools., • Strong problem‑solving skills and a practical approach to experimental work., • Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams spanning engineering, biology and software., • Experience designing microfluidic systems for automated or semi‑automated platforms., • Knowledge of sample preparation workflows, such as nucleic acid extraction, host depletion or amplification., • Familiarity with bead‑based workflows, particle separation or cell lysis techniques., • Experience working with complex biological samples, such as blood, sputum or environmental samples., • Understanding of contamination control and sample handling in diagnostic systems., • Experience considering manufacturability and scale‑up of microfluidic designs., • Familiarity with cartridge‑based or disposable device design., • Exposure to integration of microfluidics with sensors or detection systems., • Experience working in research and development or product development environments., • Enjoys hands‑on experimental and engineering work, including building, testing and iterating real systems., • Comfortable working in an R&D environment where priorities can evolve., • Approaches technical challenges thoughtfully and systematically., • Collaborative and team‑oriented, working effectively with engineers, scientists and software developers., • Able to translate scientific concepts into robust engineering solutions., • Detail‑oriented and methodical in experimental design, testing and documentation., • Able to work independently within their area of expertise while contributing to wider team goals., • Communicates technical challenges and solutions clearly across disciplines., • Salary: Competitive + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday pay, • Pension, • Life Assurance, • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance, • Hospital Cash Plan, • Therapy Services, • Perk Box, • Electric Car Scheme, • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case‑by‑case basis., • You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate)., • You must be eligible to work in the UK with occasional travel (1-3 trips per year). #J-18808-Ljbffr

Join us at EIT: At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. Welcome to the Plant Biology Institute: The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world-class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting-edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. Areas of exploration include: • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant-based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state-of-the-art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long-term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. Your Role: We are seeking a visionary and accomplished Group Leader/Senior Group Leader in Advanced Genome Technologies to lead a transformative research programme at the forefront of plant biotechnology. This senior leadership role is integral to shaping a newly established and rapidly scaling Plant Biology Institute that aspires to become a global leader in delivering scientific breakthroughs with real-world impact. The successful candidate will establish and lead a world-class research programme in advanced genome technologies and/or next-generation plant transformation approaches working at the cutting edge of plant biotechnology, developing new and enhanced methods for genetic manipulation, plant regeneration, and DNA/RNA delivery to plants that enable a step change in our technological ability to engineer plants. They will build and manage a high-performing, interdisciplinary team, develop cross-sector collaborations, and ensure research excellence is translated into commercial opportunities aligned with EIT’s mission of humane and sustainable innovation. This is a rare opportunity to define the scientific direction of a next-generation research hub addressing some of the planet’s most pressing challenges. Your Responsibilities: Leadership: • Contribute to the development and expansion of a newly established plant sciences research institute which is aiming to scale rapidly over the next 5 years to become a global leader in plant science research aimed at tackling humanity’s greatest challenges., • Establish, lead, and continuously evolve a flagship research programme in advanced genome technologies, with a particular emphasis on novel plant transformation, plant regeneration, and/or novel DNA/RNA delivery systems., • To work with internal teams to define the path to impact for the research program. To design and execute research programs and to ensure that all research programs are value and purpose driven., • To recruit and lead a top talent team of research scientists including group leaders, post docs and PhD candidates. To hire based on competency, experience and values. To manage based on clear performance targets and with accountability. To maintain a positive, engaged culture, in line with EIT Oxford values. Research designed for impact: • Contribute to planning and communicating the scientific direction of the advanced genome technology program which is aimed at changing the art of the possible in plant engineering through advances in plant transformation technologies (large scale DNA delivery, targeted insertions, engineering agrobacterium, high throughput approaches and/or automation), • Direct the activities of the research group by supervising some projects personally and overseeing projects delegated to group members. You will be expected to provide the intellectual energy and independent thinking necessary to lead a programme of cutting-edge research and to shape the overall aims and success of the group., • Drive rigorous experimental design, execution, and data interpretation, ensuring robust and reproducible scientific outcomes., • Managing research program through stage gated milestones, with active, no/no-go decisions based on validated research data. Designing research programmes to enable delivery requirements to be considered through development and implementation. Identifying pre-emptive decisions to enable future scale-up., • Manage project resources - including personnel, equipment, and budgets - in coordination with the senior leadership team., • Ensure research is conducted ethically and in compliance with EIT policy, regulatory guidance, and best scientific practice., • To generate, maintain and manage collaborations with key teams across EIT Oxford and in the wider scientific and commercial ecosystem to accelerate the path to scientific discovery and impact. To maintain key stakeholder relationships., • To work, where appropriate, with the translation team within EIT to translate the results of research into commercial opportunities consistent with EITs humane endeavours.To recognise and act on opportunities for the creation and protection of intellectual property. Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience: • Leader of research group(s) within academia or industry., • Recognised thought leader in their field., • Proven ability to manage scientific output for a team of PhDs/Post doctoral researchers., • Experience delivering against long term strategic research programs., • Experience of managing a large team of researchers and scientists including interdisciplinary workstream integration., • Demonstration of commercial awareness and versatility of research that could serve a wide range of different applications. Development of partnerships with engineering, technical partners and licensees/channel partners., • Project management, communication and resource allocation experience., • Ability to build both internal and external relationships. Working collaboratively with others outside of their discipline. Our Benefits: • Competitive salary + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday + options to buy additional days, • Pension, • Life Assurance, • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance, • Hospital Cash Plan, • Therapy Services, • Perk Box, • Electric Car Scheme, • Childcare benefit What we offer: • Newly constructed, state-of-the-art laboratories and growth facilities, core scientific and operational support, and substantial core funding., • A collaborative research environment with highly skilled team working at the cutting edge of plant science to create commercially sustainable solutions that tackle humanity’s biggest challenges, including enabling sustainable agriculture and improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production., • Opportunities for professional development including publication, conferences, IP portfolio creation, spin-out generation, and leadership development. #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world-class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting-edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. Areas of exploration include: • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant-based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state-of-the-art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long-term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. EIT is seeking an experienced Vector Design Manager to join the Crop Transformation Pipeline team within the Plant Biology Institute. This role will lead the design, build strategy, quality control and release of transformation vectors and genome editing reagents for gene edited and transgenic crop programme. The successful candidate will be a technical authority in commercial vector design, plant molecular biology and crop genome editing technologies. They will translate trait and editing objectives into transformation-ready vector designs, ensuring that constructs are fit-for-purpose for high-throughput transformation, event recovery, molecular characterisation and downstream product development. This role is critical to building an industrial-grade vector design capability for crops including corn, wheat and other strategic species. The candidate will establish design standards, construct QC criteria, vendor workflows, sequence/data management processes and clear handover packages for transformation and event delivery teams. The candidate will own the upstream design-to-vector-release process, ensuring that all constructs entering transformation are technically sound, traceable, QC-approved and aligned with commercial and regulatory expectations. • Lead vector design strategy for gene edited and transgenic crop projects, including expression cassette architecture, promoter and terminator selection, selectable/reporter marker choice, cargo design, guide RNA modules, donor templates and multiplex editing configurations., • Translate trait biology, editing objectives and transformation requirements into vectors suitable for Agrobacterium-mediated, biolistic and emerging plant delivery systems., • Provide expert guidance on CRISPR/Cas systems, Cas12, base editing, prime editing, multiplex editing, homology-directed repair, transgene-free approaches and marker-free design options where appropriate., • Develop commercial-grade design rules that consider transformation performance, event quality, freedom-to-operate, stewardship, regulatory needs, trait stacking, construct stability and downstream assay ability., • Own construct intake, design review, annotation, nomenclature, barcode strategy, version control, sequence verification, risk assessment and release criteria before vectors enter transformation workflows., • Manage internal and external vector build activities, including DNA synthesis, cloning, plasmid QC, sequence confirmation, Agrobacterium strain selection, Agrobacterium introduction, glycerol stock tracking and vector delivery to transformation teams., • Work closely with event delivery and genotyping colleagues to ensure vectors are designed with the right molecular assay strategy, including junction assays, copy number assays, guide/edit assays and marker/backbone detection., • Build and maintain a structured vector inventory and construct database using ELN, LIMS and sequence management tools, ensuring full traceability from request through vector release., • Create SOPs, design templates, QC checklists, construct handover forms and decision records to support reproducible, auditable and scalable vector delivery., • Track vector design and build milestones, budgets, vendor dependencies, quality risks and delivery timelines, escalating blockers early and proposing contingency plans., • Partner with legal, IP, regulatory, procurement and external collaborators to ensure vector designs and material transfers are aligned with programme and commercial requirements., • Train and mentor scientists, research associates and project teams in vector design principles, sequence review, construct documentation and transformation-readiness criteria., • The successful candidate will combine deep molecular design expertise with strong operational discipline. They will help reduce failed transformation cycles by ensuring that constructs are technically robust, well documented and suitable for downstream event confirmation before experiments begin. The candidate will be expected to identify opportunities for IP creation, support commercial vector design decisions and contribute to EIT's mission of translating plant science into high-impact, scalable crop improvement technologies. • PhD in Plant Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Crop Science or a related discipline, or MSc with significant relevant industry experience. At least 5-7 years of experience in plant biotechnology, molecular design, genome editing or vector development., • Demonstrated expertise in plant vector design for crop transformation, including binary vectors, expression cassette design, regulatory elements, selectable/reporter systems, multi-gene constructs and transformation-compatible plasmid architecture., • Strong understanding of genome editing technologies, including CRISPR/Cas systems, guide RNA design, multiplex editing, base editing, prime editing, donor template design and edited event confirmation requirements., • Experience with construct design and sequence analysis tools such as Benchling, SnapGene, Geneious, Vector NTI or equivalent platforms, with strong capability in sequence annotation, alignment and design review., • Practical understanding of crop transformation workflows and the design features that influence transformation efficiency, regeneration, event quality and molecular characterization., • Experience managing DNA synthesis, cloning, sequencing, plasmid QC, Agrobacterium preparation or related external service provider workflows., • Strong project management skills, including milestone tracking, risk management, vendor coordination, resource planning and delivery against time-sensitive programme goals., • Excellent documentation discipline, including SOP development, construct release records, version control, data integrity and traceable decision-making., • Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams and communicate complex vector design decisions clearly to scientists, operational teams and leadership stakeholders., • Experience in industrial ag-biotech, commercial seed/trait development, crop transformation platforms or product development pipelines., • Hands-on experience supporting vector design for corn, wheat, soybean or other major crop species., • Knowledge of GLP, QMS or quality-controlled research environments relevant to commercial product development., • Understanding of regulatory, freedom-to-operate, IP and stewardship considerations that influence commercial vector design and event advancement., • Experience with high-throughput or automated design-build-test-learn workflows, including LIMS integration, barcoding and dashboard reporting., • Experience building a new technical capability, establishing SOPs and leading small project teams or matrixed technical groups., • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, policy makers, and entrepreneurs to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas: Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology; Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture; Climate Change & Managing CO₂; Artificial Intelligence & Robotics. This is ambitious work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. Explore more at www.eit.org. Welcome to the Generative Biology Institute: Led by Founding Director Jason Chin, the Generative Biology Institute (GBI) at the Ellison Institute of Technology is tackling the key challenges in making biology engineerable, and thereby unlocking the unrivalled power of biology for the benefit of humanity. The vision of the GBI is to lay the foundations for engineering biology and unlock its potential for good. To achieve this, we must overcome two key challenges: (1) writing in the natural language of biology to enable rapid and scalable synthesis of entire genomes with precision, and (2) understanding what to write – determining which DNA sequences will generate biological systems that perform the desired functions. Addressing these challenges will allow us to harness the full power of biology to create transformative solutions across health, agriculture, clean energy and more. GBI will have sustained and substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its ground-breaking vision for engineering biology. GBI researchers will be supported by cutting-edge technology hubs including mass spectrometry, flow cytometry, sequencing, automation, imaging, and bioprocessing, along with substantial compute resources for scientific compute, bioinformatics, and machine learning. The environment at GBI will enable researchers to undertake ambitious, long-term, collaborative research, and we will actively support the translation of research to commercial applications, where appropriate. The Generative Biology Institute commenced operations in 2025, occupying newly renovated bespoke space in the Oxford Science Park. The team will later move to a purpose-made facility in the Oxford Science Park, currently under construction. Once complete, this state-of-the-art facility will include more than 40,000 m² of research laboratory and office space, housing over 30 groups and up to 600 employees focused on solving the two critical challenges in making biology engineerable and applying the solutions to addressing global challenges encapsulated in EIT's Humane Endeavors. We are seeking an experienced and detail oriented Operations Manager to support GBI's COO in driving the strategic growth of the institute. In this role, you'll help design and implement scalable business processes, provide PMO support across key operational and infrastructure projects, and keep multiple workstreams moving through strong coordination and stakeholder management. You'll act as a go-to problem solver, support high-impact strategic initiatives, and contribute to shaping GBI's organisational strategy and future direction. The role also includes working closely with external partners and helping coordinate core operational functions for new spin-out companies. This is an opportunity to play a central role in enabling world-class research and building the foundations of a rapidly growing institute. • To support the COO in strategic scaling of GBI, ensuring smooth and responsive business operations that enable world-class research, • To design, document, and implement business operations processes, working closely with central EIT teams (e.g. HR, finance, legal, facilities) to ensure scalability and alignment with best practices across GBI and EIT teams, • To provide project management office (PMO) support, tracking timelines, milestones, and deliverables across operations and infrastructure projects, • To liaise with internal and external stakeholders, managing timelines, documentation, and coordination across multiple workstreams, • To act as a flexible and reliable point of contact for operational problem-solving, stepping in wherever needed to keep projects moving, • To support strategic initiatives and special projects led by the COO, contributing to planning, execution, and internal alignment across teams, • To contribute to GBI's organisational strategy, including understanding the scientific landscape, and identifying opportunities for growth and operational innovation, • To manage and coordinate relationships with external collaborators, including academic institutions, research networks, and strategic partners, ensuring smooth communication and delivery on joint initiatives, • To support and coordinate key operational functions for new Spin-out companies that have been incubated within GBI, including budgeting and finance processes, legal and commercial matters, recruiting, communications, procurement, and lab facilities planning., • A degree in a relevant field, such as life sciences, business operations, or project management, or a science / research background and/or experience working in or supporting laboratory environments is preferred., • Strong operational experience, across finance and/or legal workstreams ideally in a fast-paced environment, • Ability to coordinate and run complicated projects across multiple different workstreams, • Excellent project coordination and time management skills, with experience overseeing complex timelines, budgets and competing priorities with experience in creating materials for leadership teams, • Proactive and self-directed, with a willingness to take ownership of problems and implement practical solutions, • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work across scientific, technical, and administrative teams, • Comfortable supporting strategic planning, with an interest in scientific trends, innovation, and organisational growth, • Experience in finance and/or venture capital is highly advantageous. Our Benefits: • Salary: Competitive + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday pay, • Pension, • Life Assurance, • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance, • Hospital Cash Plan, • Therapy Services, • Perk Box, • Electric Car Scheme, • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis, • You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate) #J-18808-Ljbffr

Join EIT's AutoLabs team to design, build, and deploy robotic systems that automate scientific work. This is a hands-on role focused on mechanical design and integration, working across electrical systems, software, and control. You will bring these disciplines together to turn scientific requirements and working prototypes into reliable, maintainable machines used in laboratories. The role requires a strong systems engineering approach: understanding how the complete machine should behave, managing dependencies between subsystems, and verifying performance at system level. You will work with automation scientists and specialist engineers from requirements and concept development through build, commissioning, and operational use. You will use iterative hardware development practices to test assumptions early, improve designs through practical evidence, and productionise prototypes while maintaining appropriate safety and configuration controls. We welcome engineers with applied, deployment, or product development experience in industrial automation, robotics, manufacturing, instrumentation, or related fields. Previous laboratory automation experience is valuable but is not essential. You will be required to work in Oxford 4 days a week for this role. • Translate scientific workflows and user needs into system requirements, operating concepts, interfaces, and measurable acceptance criteria., • Develop integrated robotic and automation system concepts, evaluating trade-offs across mechanical, electrical, software, control, safety, and operational needs., • Design and develop mechanisms, end-effectors, fixtures, motion assemblies, and machine structures, considering manufacture, assembly, cleaning, and servicing., • Specify and mechanically integrate sensors, actuators, drives, and control hardware, working with electrical and controls specialists on wiring and interfaces., • Adapt robot programs and control sequences to support mechanical integration and testing, working with software and controls specialists on equipment coordination, sensing, and fault recovery., • Plan iterative hardware development through focused prototypes, staged integration, design reviews, and short build-test-learn cycles., • Maintain system interfaces, design baselines, and configuration records so hardware and software changes remain compatible and traceable., • Assemble, commission, calibrate, and troubleshoot complete systems in the workshop and at deployment sites, resolving integration issues under operational conditions., • Contribute to machinery risk assessments and hazard reviews, translating findings into design measures, guarding, interlocks, and safe operating and maintenance arrangements., • Plan and carry out verification and validation, covering performance, reliability, foreseeable misuse, fault conditions, and recovery from interrupted operation., • Productionise prototypes and support deployment, working with scientists, technicians, and suppliers to improve usability, repeatability, and maintainability., • Degree or equivalent practical experience in Robotics, Mechatronics, Mechanical, Electrical/Electronic, Control, or a related engineering discipline., • Experience delivering integrated robotic, automated, or electromechanical systems through build, on-site commissioning, deployment, and troubleshooting in operational environments., • Practical systems engineering experience, including requirements capture, functional decomposition, interface definition, trade studies, and system-level verification and validation., • Strong mechanical design capability, with practical understanding of electrical integration, software, and controls., • Experience applying agile or iterative hardware development practices, using prototypes and test evidence to reduce uncertainty and guide design decisions., • Experience managing changes across interconnected hardware and software, including configuration control and assessment of system-wide effects., • Experience designing mechanical assemblies using 3D CAD and producing engineering drawings for manufacture and assembly, with the ability to interpret electrical schematics., • Ability to develop or modify automation software and control logic using relevant tools, such as Python, C++, PLC programming, or robot programming environments., • Practical understanding of machinery hazards, risk assessment, and safe design principles, including the distinction between operational software controls and safety-related functions., • Systematic fault-finding skills and experience testing complete systems against defined requirements., • Ability to collaborate with scientists, users, and specialist engineers and communicate engineering decisions clearly., • Experience productionising prototypes or developing machines for sustained operational use., • Experience with industrial or collaborative robots, custom tooling, precision handling, or multi-axis motion systems., • Experience contributing to machinery safety assessments, safety-related control design, or conformity assessment with competent specialists., • Familiarity with failure analysis techniques such as FMEA and their use in design and test planning., • Experience with design for manufacture and assembly, component sourcing, and supplier coordination., • Familiarity with communications middleware and industrial protocols connecting equipment, controllers, and automation software., • Experience with machine vision, calibration, simulation, or automated system testing., • Experience with modular automation or laboratory processes requiring controlled handling and cleaning., • Thinks about the complete system and takes ownership of how its parts work together., • Practical and resourceful, moving comfortably between design, programming, assembly, and commissioning., • Balances rapid iteration with safety, engineering discipline, and dependable operation., • Uses test evidence to make decisions and challenge assumptions., • Collaborative, curious, and attentive to the needs of scientists, operators, and maintainers. Enhanced holiday pay Pension Life Assurance Income Protection Private Medical Insurance Hospital Cash Plan Therapy Services Perk Box Electric Car Scheme -- At the Ellison Institute, we believe a collaborative, inclusive team is key to our success. We are building a supportive environment where creative risks are encouraged, and everyone feels heard. Valuing emotional intelligence, empathy, respect, and resilience, we encourage people to be curious and to have a shared commitment to excellence. Join us and make an impact! #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world‑class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting‑edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. Areas of exploration include: • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant‑based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state‑of‑the‑art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long‑term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Scientist‑level Geneticist to join its pioneering Plant Biology Institute to contribute to the ‘Photosynthesis and Yield’ programme. This initiative seeks to advance fundamental and applied science in photosynthesis, carbon assimilation, and crop yield improvement to translate findings into commercial opportunities aligned with EIT’s mission of humane and sustainable innovation. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing and conducting experiments aligned with stage‑gated milestones in our discovery pipelines programme. They will take a plants‑down approach, building upstream discovery pipelines that start from observing plant performance, natural variation, and evolutionary signals to identify what limits yield and photosynthesis in real biological systems. They will bring strong expertise in quantitative plant genetics, combined with hands‑on experience conducting large scale field experiments. They should be comfortable changing how biological systems behave, not just describing them. This role offers a unique opportunity to conduct high‑impact research at the forefront of plant science while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation from lab to global impact. The scientist will be expected to contribute to publications and IP generation and play an active role in translating research into real‑world and commercial solutions aligned with EIT’s mission of humane technological advancement. This role offers a unique opportunity to conduct high‑impact research at the forefront of plant science while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation from lab to global impact. • Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to achieve research goals., • Design, conduct and analyse quantitative genetics experiments to assess polygenic traits in field environments., • Manage multi‑location field sites., • Identify and develop germplasm for analysis of trait variation., • Provide expert advice for strategic decision making., • Assist in the translation of scientific results into commercial opportunities consistent with the EIT humane endeavours., • Recognise and act on opportunities for the creation of IP and cooperating in patent protection and in impact delivery., • PhD in plant quantitative genetics or related discipline., • Demonstrated competency in relevant research skills including: -Experience conducting QTL analyses. -Experience conducting GWAS. • Experience designing, planning and executing large‑scale field experiments., • Ability to plan and conduct independent research to the highest standard., • Ability to perform data analysis, model fitting, statistical evaluation, and visualisation., • Experience handling large datasets with programming languages such as R and/or Python., • In‑depth knowledge of photosynthesis., • Experience measuring photosynthetic parameters., • Experience performing comparative genomic analyses., • Experience with molecular biology, nucleic acid extraction and sequencing., • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services #J-18808-Ljbffr

Within EIT's AI and Robotics team, we believe powerful AI and increasingly capable robotics will meaningfully accelerate science discovery. We are building a platform to empower scientists to move from a question, to a designed experiment, to a result on the bench - without having to do the plumbing themselves. This is an undefined product category. You will be part of the founding team to shape the product and the architecture. To begin with, you'd be building for EIT's own scientists, in the same institute. They're a short walk from your desk, not behind an account manager or a research panel. You’ll own the system architecture from model endpoint to interface. We build prototypes to learn from, and we're willing to throw them away. What comes next depends on what that pilot teaches us, and you'll have a large hand in deciding it. This role starts as an individual contributor, with the opportunity to build a team over time. You become the technical anchor for how AI models reach the scientists who need them - the person who owns that seam and establishes the technical approach. • Build an agentic workflow for scientists end to end, from model endpoints to the user interface. There is nobody to hand a ticket to at the beginning., • Build and operate the technical foundations for agentic systems, including orchestration, tool interfaces, state management, evaluation, observability and failure recovery., • Design evaluative frameworks to understand if the deployed model is working, • Work directly with scientists, observe how they operate and translate what you learn into clear engineering priorities., • Synthesise the knowledge from individual workflows to build generalisable capability, • Partner with product, data and research to shape the roadmap and ship at speed in an emerging category where the most impactful problems remain unsolved., • You've built and shippedsystems from scratchas acore engineer and independent contributor or have created something new and standalone inside a larger organisation. You can turn an open-ended problem into a clear technical strategy and working software., • You've built agentic AI products, not just used them. You understand orchestration, tool use, human-in-the-loop review and evaluation, and have dealt with agentsand their typical failure modes., • You've designed andbuiltproduction-readysystems. You can make sound decisions about APIs, data models, testing, deployment, observability and failure recovery., • You've built policy-aware systems with durable audit trails. Constraints are enforced by design, and every decision leaves a trustworthy, queryable record., • You are full-stack and self-sufficient. You can take a system from model endpoint to production interface without waiting for someone else to fill the gaps., • You can create clarity from ambiguity. You are comfortable setting technical direction and making trade-offs between what is technically elegant and what usersneed for adoption. Any of these is a meaningful plus: • A strong plus:direct life-science or lab experience- for example inprotein design, computational biology, bioinformatics, or building tools alongside bench scientists., • Building the internal tooling and standards that let ateamwork with coding agents well-not just doing it yourself., • Scientific visualisation-3D molecular structure, large result sets, comparison and triage interfaces., • Experience as an engineering lead or manager who has chosen to come back to building. We'd want to talk about why., • Enhanced holiday pay, • Pension, • Life Assurance, • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance, • Hospital Cash Plan, • Therapy Services, • Perk Box, • Electric Car Scheme, • -- At the Ellison Institute, we believe a collaborative, inclusive team is key to our success. We are building a supportive environment where creative risks are encouraged, and everyone feels heard. Valuing emotional intelligence, empathy, respect, and resilience, we encourage people to be curious and to have a shared commitment to excellence. Join us and make an impact! #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world-class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting-edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant-based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state-of-the-art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long-term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. We are seeking a highly motivated Computational Biologist to join the Bioinformatics platform team, which builds computational tools for plant biology in close collaboration with the phenotyping platform and research teams. The successful candidate will work at the intersection of multi-omic analysis and software development, to accelerate plant science research. By developing and implementing robust data analysis pipelines, interactive visualisation tools, and preparing inputs for agentic workflows, your work will directly shape how we make data driven decisions to accelerate plant science research. The role will require working closely with bioinformaticians, research scientists and AI engineers, to design and deliver enterprise-level analytical approaches that meet the evolving needs of the institute. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in statistics, data analysis and visualization and the ability to translate complex, multi-omic datasets into clear, actionable insights that inform research and decision-making across the institute. • Collaborate closely with scientific teams to translate biological questions into computational approaches and develop experimentally testable hypotheses that guide experimental design., • Prepare multi-omics and imaging datasets for model ingestions, ensuring data quality and consistent annotation across modalities., • Analyse and integrate omics data sets, including transcriptomics, metabolomics, and proteomics, to inform plant trait engineering strategies., • Develop computational pipelines for image segmentation, feature extraction and phenotyping across biological scales, including microscopy, growth chamber or in-field data, • Integrate image-derived phenotypes with omics data to link plant traits with molecular signatures and generate biological insights., • A PhD or equivalent research experience in Computational Biology, Machine Learning, Computer Vision or a related discipline, • Demonstrated experience independently developing, implementing and evaluating computational methods to address biological questions., • Familiarity with at least two different omics types and demonstrated experience in multi-omics integration, • Experience in applying computer vision methods, including image segmentation and feature extraction, to biological datasets, • Experience in extracting features from imaging and omics data, and building multi-modal integration pipelines to uncover novel insights., • Able to communicate scientific findings clearly and collaborate effectively with experimental scientists, AI researchers and bioinformatics engineers., • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday + options to buy additional days, • Pension, • Life Assurance, • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance, • Hospital Cash Plan, • Therapy Services, • Perk Box, • Electric Car Scheme, • Childcare benefit, • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case‑by‑case basis., • You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate). #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world-class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting-edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. Areas of exploration include: • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant-based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state-of-the-art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long-term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. EIT is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Scientist or Senior Scientist in Plant Metabolic Engineering to join its pioneering Plant Biology Institute. The successful candidate will lead the development of innovative metabolic engineering and synthetic biology approaches to manipulate plant cellular conditions. Specifically, the candidate will design, implement and characterise engineering strategies to optimise plant respiratory activity, energy status, and redox balance. These engineering approaches will be first evaluated and optimised in plant cell cultures guided by iterative design–build–test–learn cycles before being translated into whole plants for improving productivity. The scientist will be expected to contribute to IP generation and play an active role in translating research into real-world and commercial solutions aligned with EIT’s mission of humane technological advancement. This role offers a unique opportunity to conduct high-impact research at the forefront of plant science while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation from lab to global impact. • Design, implement and characterise engineering strategies to manipulate plant respiratory activity, energy status, and redox balance, • Develop and apply methods to quantify cellular respiratory activity, energy status, redox balance and other relevant metabolic responses in plant cells and tissues, • Lead experiments in plant cell cultures and whole plants, ensuring that findings are effectively translated between the two experimental systems, • Lead phenotyping of engineered cell cultures and plant lines using physiological, biochemical, imaging and multi-omics approaches (e.g., transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomics), • Apply iterative design–build–test–learn cycles to develop and refine engineering strategies, • Advance promising engineering strategies into whole plants for functional validation, • Drive rigorous experimental design, execution, and data interpretations, ensuring robust and reproducible scientific outcomes, • Deliver research progress through stage gated milestones, • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to incorporate cutting edge research techniques into experiments, • Present scientific work at seminars within EIT and at external meetings, including contributing to discussions on developments within the field, • Assist in mentoring other members of the research group where appropriate, • Assist in the translation of scientific results into commercial opportunities consistent with the EIT humane endeavours, • Recognise and act on opportunities for the creation of IP and cooperating in patent protection and in impact delivery, • Conduct research ethically, in compliance with EIT policy, regulatory guidance, and best scientific practice, • PhD in Plant Biology, Synthetic Biology, Metabolic Engineering, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology or a related discipline, • Strong research background with expertise in one or more areas relevant to the role. Indicative examples include:, • Demonstrated experience in plant metabolic engineering and synthetic biology, • Demonstrated experience in the targeted manipulation of cellular processes, • Demonstrated experience developing or applying methods to measure respiration, energy status, redox balance and/or other related metabolic parameters, • Demonstrated experience of transient and stable genetic engineering in plant cell cultures, tissues and/or whole plants, • Experience with advanced microscopy analysis and imaging of plant cells or tissues using light, fluorescence, and confocal microscopy techniques, • Experience with plant gas-exchange, • Experience generating and preparing biological samples for transcriptomic, metabolomic and proteomic analyses., • Experience with laboratory automation, robotics and high-throughput experimental workflows, • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services #J-18808-Ljbffr

Join EIT’s AutoLabs team to develop and deploy robotic systems that automate scientific work. This is a hands‑on mechatronics role spanning mechanical design, electrical integration, software, and control. You will bring these disciplines together to turn scientific requirements and working prototypes into reliable, maintainable machines used in laboratories. The role requires a strong systems engineering approach: understanding how the complete machine should behave, managing dependencies between subsystems, and verifying performance at system level. You will work with automation scientists and specialist engineers from requirements and concept development through build, commissioning, and operational use. You will use iterative hardware development practices to test assumptions early, improve designs through practical evidence, and productionise prototypes while maintaining appropriate safety and configuration controls. We welcome engineers with applied, deployment, or product development experience in industrial automation, robotics, manufacturing, instrumentation, or related fields. Previous laboratory automation experience is valuable but is not essential. You will be expected to work in Oxford 4 days a week for this role. • Translate scientific workflows and user needs into system requirements, operating concepts, interfaces, and measurable acceptance criteria., • Develop integrated machine concepts, evaluating trade‑offs across mechanical, electrical, software, control, safety, and operational needs., • Design and develop mechanisms, end‑effectors, fixtures, motion assemblies, and machine structures, considering manufacture, assembly, cleaning, and servicing., • Specify and integrate sensors, actuators, drives, wiring, and control hardware, working with specialists where required., • Develop and adapt robot programs, automation software, and control sequences for motion, equipment coordination, sensing, and fault recovery., • Plan iterative hardware development through focused prototypes, staged integration, design reviews, and short build–test–learn cycles., • Maintain system interfaces, design baselines, and configuration records so hardware and software changes remain compatible and traceable., • Assemble, commission, calibrate, and troubleshoot complete systems, resolving faults across engineering disciplines., • Contribute to machinery risk assessments and hazard reviews, translating findings into design measures, guarding, interlocks, and safe operating and maintenance arrangements., • Plan and carry out verification and validation, covering performance, reliability, foreseeable misuse, fault conditions, and recovery from interrupted operation., • Productionise prototypes and support deployment, working with scientists, technicians, and suppliers to improve usability, repeatability, and maintainability., • Degree or equivalent practical experience in Robotics, Mechatronics, Mechanical, Electrical/Electronic, Control, or a related engineering discipline., • Experience delivering integrated robotic, automated, or electromechanical systems through build, commissioning, and deployment., • Practical systems engineering experience, including requirements capture, functional decomposition, interface definition, trade studies, and system‑level verification and validation., • Strong capability in one or more engineering disciplines, with practical competence across mechanical systems, electrical integration, software, and controls., • Experience applying agile or iterative hardware development practices, using prototypes and test evidence to reduce uncertainty and guide design decisions., • Experience managing changes across interconnected hardware and software, including configuration control and assessment of system‑wide effects., • Ability to design or adapt mechanical assemblies and work with CAD models, engineering drawings, and electrical schematics., • Ability to develop or modify automation software and control logic using relevant tools, such as Python, C++, PLC programming, or robot programming environments., • Practical understanding of machinery hazards, risk assessment, and safe design principles, including the distinction between operational software controls and safety‑related functions., • Systematic fault‑finding skills and experience testing complete systems against defined requirements., • Ability to collaborate with scientists, users, and specialist engineers and communicate engineering decisions clearly., • Experience productionising prototypes or developing machines for sustained operational use., • Experience with industrial or collaborative robots, custom tooling, precision handling, or multi‑axis motion systems., • Experience contributing to machinery safety assessments, safety‑related control design, or conformity assessment with competent specialists., • Familiarity with failure analysis techniques such as FMEA and their use in design and test planning., • Experience with design for manufacture and assembly, component sourcing, and supplier coordination., • Familiarity with communications middleware and industrial protocols connecting equipment, controllers, and automation software., • Experience with machine vision, calibration, simulation, or automated system testing., • Experience with modular automation or laboratory processes requiring controlled handling and cleaning., • Thinks about the complete system and takes ownership of how its parts work together., • Practical and resourceful, moving comfortably between design, programming, assembly, and commissioning., • Balances rapid iteration with safety, engineering discipline, and dependable operation., • Uses test evidence to make decisions and challenge assumptions., • Collaborative, curious, and attentive to the needs of scientists, operators, and maintainers. We offer the following salary and benefits: Enhanced holiday pay Pension Life Assurance Income Protection Private Medical Insurance Hospital Cash Plan Therapy Services Perk Box Electric Car Scheme -- At the Ellison Institute, we believe a collaborative, inclusive team is key to our success. We are building a supportive environment where creative risks are encouraged, and everyone feels heard. Valuing emotional intelligence, empathy, respect, and resilience, we encourage people to be curious and to have a shared commitment to excellence. Join us and make an impact! #J-18808-Ljbffr

Join is at EIT: At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, policy makers, and entrepreneurs to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas: Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture Climate Change & Managing CO₂ Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas for lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org Join our SciComp team to build the cloud and compute foundation that enables scientific breakthroughs. Deliver reliable, secure platforms and self-service guardrails that accelerate experimentation and turn ideas into results - faster, at scale, and with confidence. • Architect, build, and operate our cloud platform, moving infrastructure beyond the initial setup to deliver resilient compute, network, and storage, including full-sized GPU clusters, • Drive the implementation of highly structured, auditable delivery pipelines (CI/CD/GitOps) using to enforce automated, repeatable infrastructure changes, • Design and deploy automated governance and security controls using Policy-as-Code (specifically Kyverno and YAML) to ensure strong isolation, protect data, and meet internal audit standards, • Establish the foundational monitoring, alerting, and telemetry framework required for robust operations, defining clear SLOs, and setting the course for future SRE work, • Partner with Research and Data teams to build self-service capabilities that efficiently support diverse workloads, from Python notebooks to distributed clusters, • Proven experience platform engineering, with a demonstrable track record of architecting and automating operational processes, • A highly proactive attitude and a passion for introducing and automating operational structure, • Expertise with at least one major cloud provider (OCI, AWS, GCP, or Azure), • Proficiency with Terraform for declarative, large-scale infrastructure provisioning, • Comfortable with operating and managing large-scale, resilient Kubernetes clusters, • Proficiency in at least one major language for system-level tools (e.g. Python, Go, or Java) with some scripting experience, • Familiarity with modern Policy-as-Code tooling, • A passion for introducing and automating operational rigour and structure, • Experience supporting ML and Data Engineering workloads, • Competitive salary (dependent on experience) + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance. Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery, • Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services Working together - what it involves: You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate) and can commit to being onsite at our Oxford office, a minimum of 3 days per working week. #J-18808-Ljbffr

At EIT we are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our SciComp team. In this role you will build robust, scalable software systems that power EIT's scientific initiatives and contribute to the full software lifecycle, ensuring our technology stack is reliable, modular, and built to the highest engineering standards., • Design and build robust services (APIs, CLI tools and software modules) that power scientific applications and products., • Bridge diverse components, integrating ML inference servers, hardware interfaces, and data pipelines into cohesive systems, while ensuring high availability and low latency., • Own the full production path-from architectural design and coding to automated testing, benchmarking, deployment, and observability., • Collaborate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team of Data Engineers, AI Scientists, Software Engineers and Domain Experts., • Champion software engineering best practices across EIT, such as maintaining high standards of code quality, system security, and transparency., • MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline., • Extensive experience as a Software Engineer, with required proficiency in Python, including proven success in implementing and deploying robust, scalable distributed systems in production., • Demonstrated experience designing, managing, and orchestrating complex systems involving scalable data infrastructure, hardware interfaces, and machine learning models. Expertise in defining and exposing functionality via clean, well-documented APIs (e.g., REST, gRPC)., • Proven experience implementing and managing robust CI/CD pipelines and reproducible development workflows., • Strong collaborator able to clearly communicate system design, architecture decisions, and software engineering practices to multi-disciplinary teams., Experience leveraging Kubernetes for application deployment, and familiarity with distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Ray, Spark), or specialised batch schedulers/resource managers (e.g., Slurm, Volcano, Kueue)., • Demonstrated expertise with specialised serving engines (e.g., vLLM, SGLang) or techniques for deploying models in resource-constrained or high-throughput environments., • Familiarity with GitOps and CI/CD (e.g., ArgoCD, GitHub Actions)., • Experience managing and deploying production systems across diverse environments, including cloud, on-premises clusters, and edge devices., • Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic R&D settings, demonstrating high autonomy necessary to translate scientific objectives into high-quality software., • At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas:, • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, • This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org., • We offer the following benefits:, • Competitive salary (dependent on experience) + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services, • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis., • You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford/London(or be willing to relocate)., • The SciComp team work to a hybrid working pattern of 3 days in the office, 2x in our Oxford Office and 1x in our London office. You must be able to commit to this should you be successfully appointed. #J-18808-Ljbffr

At EIT we are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Scientific Compute and Data Team. Forward Deployed Data Engineers are a key interface between our core data systems and the research and engineering projects across EIT. You'll work side-by-side with scientists and engineers in frontier AI and robotics, generative and plant biology, or pathogen surveillance. You will disseminate data engineering best practices into the institutes, ensuring that datasets are accurate, reproducible, versioned-controlled, well-structured, and ready for ML. You will help scientists turn raw information from various sources into high-quality resources, ensuring our technical foundations support the next generation of discovery. This is a hands-on role for those who thrive on collaborating directly with researchers and engineers, solving problems quickly, and turning complex research requirements into scalable, reliable data pipelines while contributing to the broader EIT platform. We are looking for clear, respectful communicators who are comfortable bringing their own expertise into diverse groups. Day-to-Day, You Might: • Partner with scientists and engineers to deliver robust, reproducible data pipelines that meet research needs across disciplines., • Own ingestion, storage, curation, and transformation of diverse biological datasets and formats, such as structured/tabular data, unstructured text, high I/O formats like LMDB/Arrow/HDF5, or domain-specific formats such as fastq/fasta and cif., • Package and deploy code in research environments using containers (e.g. Docker)., • Scale processing across distributed cloud warehouses/storage via container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), High-Performance GPU Compute (e.g. Slurm), or distributed compute frameworks (e.g. Spark, Ray)., • Contribute to an engineering culture that values maintainability, testing, robust system design, and deep collaboration, but allows flexibility for rapid prototyping and responsiveness to changing landscapes. You have strong programming experience in Python, and value code quality, reliability, and readability as much as performance., • You have a deep understanding of data storage and manipulation: relational systems, sharding and parallelisation, indexing, scalability., • You have experience working on cloud compute platforms and varied Linux environments., • You have worked at scale, especially on distributed/parallelised data systems., • You promote good Data Engineering and Data Management practices as a means of enabling good science - reproducibility, version-control, schema design, lineage, single-source of truth., • You think in terms of systems and longevity, not just one-off ETL scripts, and embrace end-to-end ownership from low-level performance to user interfaces., • Our Forward Deployed Engineers will have the opportunity to work on diverse projects, and to expand their skillset, but will add particular value when they can match their data engineering expertise with domain knowledge relevant to a project. We would value: Experience preparing data for ML: pre-training, post-training, and evaluations. Scientific background, with experience or qualifications in genomics, proteomics, or other related fields. Experience in bioinformatics and use of industry-standard tooling such as NextFlow., • At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas: Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology; Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture; Climate Change & Managing CO; Artificial Intelligence & Robotics. This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org., • Scientific Compute and Data Team The Scientific Compute and Data team builds the compute, data and tooling foundation behind EIT's science. We run the cloud and GPU infrastructure that the models train on, the data infrastructure that instruments, robots and researchers use, and the data products and shared data models that let one team's results be built on by the next. We provide hands-on expertise in platform engineering, data engineering, and data management, and create common tooling for every lab to accelerate their experiments across gene editing, battery chemistry, plant biology and more., • We offer the following benefits: Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services, • Working together - what it involves: 2 days per week in Oxford office, 1 day per week in employee's choice of Oxford or London office, 2 days per week work from any UK location., • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org . The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world-class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting-edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. Areas of exploration include: • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant-based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state-of-the-art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long‑term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. EIT is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Scientist or Senior Scientist in Plant Cell Screening and Photosynthesis Engineering to join its pioneering Plant Biology Institute. The successful candidate will lead the development of an innovative plant cell‑based screening platform for evaluating carbon fixation. Once established, the platform will be used to identify improved variants of photosynthesis enzymes and assess engineered metabolic pathways designed to enhance photosynthesis. The most promising enzyme variants and pathway designs will be advanced into whole plants to support the development of high‑performance crop varieties with enhanced photosynthetic capacity. The scientist will be expected to contribute to IP generation and play an active role in translating research into real‑world and commercial solutions aligned with EIT's mission of humane technological advancement. This role offers a unique opportunity to conduct high‑impact research at the forefront of plant science while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation from lab to global impact. • Lead the development of a plant cell‑based screening platform to assess carbon fixation and other physiological responses in suspension cultures, • Develop and apply quantitative methods to measure carbon fixation rates in plant cell suspensions, • Use the plant cell‑based screening platform to Identify improved variants of photosynthesis enzymes, • Use the plant cell‑based screening platform to assess engineered metabolic pathways designed to enhance photosynthesis, • Lead genetic engineering experiments in plant cell cultures, including targeted gene knockouts, gene insertions, and CRISPR‑based genome editing, • Apply iterative design‑build‑test‑learn cycles to develop and refine engineering strategies, • Advance promising enzyme variants and pathway designs into whole plants for functional validation, • Drive rigorous experimental design, execution, and data interpretations, ensuring robust and reproducible scientific outcomes., • Deliver research progress through stage gated milestones., • Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to incorporate cutting edge research techniques into experiments., • Present scientific work at seminars within EIT and at external meetings, including contributing to discussions on developments within the field., • Assist in mentoring other members of the research group where appropriate., • Assist in the translation of scientific results into commercial opportunities consistent with the EIT humane endeavours., • Recognise and act on opportunities for the creation of IP and cooperating in patent protection and in impact delivery., • Conduct research ethically, in compliance with EIT policy, regulatory guidance, and best scientific practice., • PhD in Plant Biology, Plant Physiology, Photosynthesis, Synthetic Biology, Metabolic Engineering, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry or a related discipline., • Strong research background with expertise in one or more areas relevant to the role. Indicative examples include:, • Demonstrated experience developing or applying cell‑based methods to measure carbon fixation, photosynthetic activity and/or metabolic performance, • Demonstrated experience in engineering photosynthesis or carbon fixation, • Demonstrated experience in plant metabolic engineering, enzyme engineering or synthetic biology, • Demonstrated experience designing, generating or screening enzyme variant libraries., • Demonstrated experience with transient and stable genetic engineering in plant cell cultures, including targeted gene knockout, gene insertion, and CRISPR‑based genome editing., • Experience using bioreactor and microculture platforms for plant cell cultivation, physiological monitoring and experimental workflows, • Experience with plant gas‑exchange analysis and chlorophyll fluorescence measurements in plant cells or tissues., • Knowledge of enzyme biochemistry, assembly and regulation., • Experience generating and preparing biological samples for transcriptomic, metabolomic and proteomic analyses., • Experience with laboratory automation, robotics and high‑throughput experimental workflows., • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services #J-18808-Ljbffr

Join us at EIT: At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. Welcome to the Plant Biology Institute: The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world-class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting-edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. Areas of exploration include: • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant-based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state-of-the-art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long-term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. Your Role: EIT is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Scientist or Senior Scientist in Plant Metabolic Engineering to join its pioneering Plant Biology Institute. The successful candidate will lead the development of innovative metabolic engineering and synthetic biology approaches to manipulate plant cellular conditions. Specifically, the candidate will design, implement and characterise engineering strategies to optimise plant respiratory activity, energy status, and redox balance. These engineering approaches will be first evaluated and optimised in plant cell cultures guided by iterative design–build–test–learn cycles before being translated into whole plants for improving productivity. The scientist will be expected to contribute to IP generation and play an active role in translating research into real-world and commercial solutions aligned with EIT’s mission of humane technological advancement. This role offers a unique opportunity to conduct high-impact research at the forefront of plant science while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation from lab to global impact. Your Responsibilities: • Design, implement and characterise engineering strategies to manipulate plant respiratory activity, energy status, and redox balance, • Develop and apply methods to quantify cellular respiratory activity, energy status, redox balance and other relevant metabolic responses in plant cells and tissues, • Lead experiments in plant cell cultures and whole plants, ensuring that findings are effectively translated between the two experimental systems, • Lead phenotyping of engineered cell cultures and plant lines using physiological, biochemical, imaging and multi-omics approaches (e.g., transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomics), • Apply iterative design–build–test–learn cycles to develop and refine engineering strategies, • Advance promising engineering strategies into whole plants for functional validation, • Drive rigorous experimental design, execution, and data interpretations, ensuring robust and reproducible scientific outcomes, • Deliver research progress through stage gated milestones, • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to incorporate cutting edge research techniques into experiments, • Present scientific work at seminars within EIT and at external meetings, including contributing to discussions on developments within the field, • Assist in mentoring other members of the research group where appropriate, • Assist in the translation of scientific results into commercial opportunities consistent with the EIT humane endeavours, • Recognise and act on opportunities for the creation of IP and cooperating in patent protection and in impact delivery, • Conduct research ethically, in compliance with EIT policy, regulatory guidance, and best scientific practice Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience: • PhD in Plant Biology, Synthetic Biology, Metabolic Engineering, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology or a related discipline, • Strong research background with expertise in one or more areas relevant to the role. Indicative examples include: o Demonstrated experience in plant metabolic engineering and synthetic biology o Demonstrated experience in the targeted manipulation of cellular processes o Demonstrated experience developing or applying methods to measure respiration, energy status, redox balance and/or other related metabolic parameters o Demonstrated experience of transient and stable genetic engineering in plant cell cultures, tissues and/or whole plants Desirable Skills, Qualifications & Experience: • Experience with advanced microscopy analysis and imaging of plant cells or tissues using light, fluorescence, and confocal microscopy techniques, • Experience with plant gas-exchange, • Experience generating and preparing biological samples for transcriptomic, metabolomic and proteomic analyses., • Experience with laboratory automation, robotics and high-throughput experimental workflows, • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world‑class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting‑edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. Areas of exploration include: • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant‑based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state‑of‑the‑art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long‑term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Scientist‑level Geneticist to join its pioneering Plant Biology Institute to contribute to the ‘Photosynthesis and Yield’ programme. This initiative seeks to advance fundamental and applied science in photosynthesis, carbon assimilation, and crop yield improvement to translate findings into commercial opportunities aligned with EIT’s mission of humane and sustainable innovation. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing and conducting experiments aligned with stage‑gated milestones in our discovery pipelines programme. They will take a plants‑down approach, building upstream discovery pipelines that start from observing plant performance, natural variation, and evolutionary signals to identify what limits yield and photosynthesis in real biological systems. They will bring strong expertise in quantitative plant genetics, combined with hands‑on experience conducting large scale field experiments. They should be comfortable changing how biological systems behave, not just describing them. This role offers a unique opportunity to conduct high‑impact research at the forefront of plant science while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation from lab to global impact. The scientist will be expected to contribute to publications and IP generation and play an active role in translating research into real‑world and commercial solutions aligned with EIT’s mission of humane technological advancement. This role offers a unique opportunity to conduct high‑impact research at the forefront of plant science while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation from lab to global impact. • Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to achieve research goals., • Design, conduct and analyse quantitative genetics experiments to assess polygenic traits in field environments., • Manage multi‑location field sites., • Identify and develop germplasm for analysis of trait variation., • Provide expert advice for strategic decision making., • Assist in the translation of scientific results into commercial opportunities consistent with the EIT humane endeavours., • Recognise and act on opportunities for the creation of IP and cooperating in patent protection and in impact delivery., • PhD in plant quantitative genetics or related discipline., • Demonstrated competency in relevant research skills including: -Experience conducting QTL analyses. -Experience conducting GWAS. • Experience designing, planning and executing large‑scale field experiments., • Ability to plan and conduct independent research to the highest standard., • Ability to perform data analysis, model fitting, statistical evaluation, and visualisation., • Experience handling large datasets with programming languages such as R and/or Python., • In‑depth knowledge of photosynthesis., • Experience measuring photosynthetic parameters., • Experience performing comparative genomic analyses., • Experience with molecular biology, nucleic acid extraction and sequencing., • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at eit.org Led by Founding Director Jason Chin, the Generative Biology Institute (GBI) at the Ellison Institute of Technology is tackling the key challenges in making biology engineerable, and thereby unlocking the unrivalled power of biology for the benefit of humanity. The vision of the GBI is to lay the foundations for engineering biology, and unlock its potential for good. To achieve this, we must overcome two key challenges. First, we need the ability to write in the natural language of biology, enabling the rapid and scalable synthesis of entire genomes with precision. Second, we must understand what to write - determining which DNA sequences will generate biological systems that perform the desired functions. Addressing these challenges will allow us to harness the full power of biology to create transformative solutions across health, agriculture, clean energy and more. GBI will have sustained and substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its ground-breaking vision for engineering biology. GBI researchers will also be supported by cutting-edge technology hubs including mass spectrometry, flow cytometry, sequencing, automation, imaging, and bioprocessing. GBI will also have access to substantial compute resources that can be leveraged to further accelerate progress, including scientific compute, bioinformatics, and machine learning. The environment at GBI will allow researchers to undertake ambitious, long-term, collaborative research, and we will actively support the translation of research to commercial applications, where appropriate. The Generative Biology Institute commenced operations in 2025, occupying newly renovated bespoke space in the Oxford Science Park. The team will later move to a purpose‑made facility in the Oxford Science Park, currently under construction. Once complete, this state‑of‑the‑art facility will include more than 40,000 m² of research laboratory and office space. It will house over 30 groups and up to 600 employees at scale, focused on solving the two critical challenges in making biology engineerable and applying the solutions to addressing the global challenges encapsulated in EIT’s Humane Endeavors. The Mass Spectrometry Tech Hub within the GBI is seeking a Scientist / Senior Scientist with expertise in single‑cell mass spectrometry, with a particular focus on single‑cell proteomics and/or metabolomics. This is an exciting opportunity to help establish and develop cutting‑edge single‑cell MS workflows within a highly collaborative, technology‑driven research institute. The successful candidate will work closely with GBI research groups as well as scientists across other EIT institutes. We also work in close collaboration with other Tech Hubs including automation, flow cytometry, sequencing, bioinformatics, scientific computing and AI/ML, to deliver high‑quality, reproducible and scalable analytical workflows. We are looking for candidates with a good understanding of the challenges of low‑input and single‑cell analysis, that can communicate clearly with multidisciplinary teams, can develop robust experimental workflows, and are motivated to push the boundaries of what mass spectrometry can deliver. This role is particularly suited to a scientist who enjoys developing new methods, troubleshooting complex analytical workflows, working across biological applications, and translating advanced MS technologies into accessible, high‑impact research capability for the wider Institute. • To develop, implement and optimise LC‑MS‑based workflows for low‑input and single‑cell proteomics and/or metabolomics., • To support GBI, and broader EIT, researchers in the design, execution, analysis and interpretation of mass spectrometry experiments, including sample preparation, method development, data acquisition and data interpretation., • To help develop standard operating procedures, training material and user‑facing guidance for single‑cell and low‑input MS workflows., • To contribute to the analysis and interpretation of complex MS datasets, working closely with bioinformatics, scientific computing and AI/ML colleagues where appropriate., • To assist, where required, in manuscript preparation, internal reports and external presentations., • To promote and champion EIT and the work of the GBI, representing the Institute at scientific meetings, conferences and public events where appropriate., • PhD, equivalent advanced degree, or equivalent research/industry experience in analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry, proteomics, metabolomics, biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology or a related discipline., • Demonstrable experience in mass spectrometry‑based proteomics and/or metabolomics, including LC‑MS sample preparation, method development, data acquisition, troubleshooting and quality control., • Strong knowledge of low‑input or single‑cell analytical workflows, including single‑cell proteomics, single‑cell metabolomics, low‑cell‑number proteomics or other high‑sensitivity MS approaches., • Practical understanding of bottom‑up and top‑down proteomics and/or metabolomics workflows, including LC‑MS acquisition strategies, database searching, quantitative analysis and interpretation of complex datasets., • Experience with MS data analysis software such as Spectronaut, DIA‑NN, MaxQuant, Proteome Discoverer, FragPipe, Compound Discoverer, MS‑DAL, Skyline or equivalent platforms., • Strong communication, collaboration and organisational skills, with a commitment to experimental reproducibility, data integrity and working effectively across multidisciplinary research teams., • Hands‑on experience with advanced high‑resolution MS platforms, including Orbitrap Tribrid instruments and/or timsTOF platforms., • Experience with nanoLC, low‑flow LC, high‑sensitivity chromatography, carrier proteome approaches, TMT/isobaric labelling, DIA, DDA, PRM, SRM/MRM or related quantitative MS workflows., • Experience developing or implementing single‑cell or ultra‑low‑input workflows such as nanoPOTS, SCoPE‑MS, plexDIA, low‑input DIA, FACS‑based sample preparation or automated nanolitre‑scale sample preparation., • Experience working with limited or complex biological samples, including rare cell populations, sorted cells, micro‑dissected material, primary cells, tissue‑derived samples, organoids, microbial systems, plant samples or engineered biological systems., • Experience integrating MS workflows with upstream biological or automation platforms, including cell culture, cell sorting, liquid handlers, acoustic dispensing, microfluidics or high‑throughput sample preparation., • Experience working in a technology hub, core facility, collaborative research environment, biotech, pharma or translational setting; for Senior Scientist level, evidence of independent method development, scientific leadership, training and strategic capability building., • Travel Allowance & Annual Bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services, • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case‑by‑case basis., • You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate)., • This is an onsite role #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at. The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world-class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting‑edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant-based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state‑of‑the‑art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long‑term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. At EIT we are seeking an inspiring and strategicSenior Group Leader/Group Leader in Nitrogen Fixationto lead a flagship research programme within its rapidly expanding Plant Biology Institute. This senior leadership position offers a unique opportunity to shape the scientific and operational foundations of a world‑class research team dedicated to developing innovative, purpose‑driven solutions in biological nitrogen fixation. You will play a central role in establishing EIT’s global leadership in plant science by recruiting and managing top‑tier talent, forging impactful collaborations, and driving translational research from lab to field. With a clear focus on scientific excellence, commercial viability, and global impact, this role is ideal for a recognised thought leader ready to pioneer transformative science aligned with EIT’s values and mission to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges. • Contribute to the development and expansion of a newly established plant science institute which will scale rapidly over the next 5 years to become a global leader in plant science research aimed at tackling humanity’s greatest challenges., • Establish, lead, and continuously evolve aflagship research programmein biological nitrogen fixation in plants, with a particular emphasis on novelnitrogen fixing systems and advanced metabolic and protein engineering., • To work with internal teams to define the path to impact for the research program. To design and execute research programs and to ensure that all research programs are value and purpose driven., • To recruit and lead a top talent team of research scientists including post docs and PhD candidates. To hire based on competency, experience and values. To manage based on clear performance targets and with accountability. To maintain a positive, engaged culture, in line with EIT Oxford values., • Contribute to planning and communicating the scientific direction of the nitrogen fixation program which is aimed at engineering biological nitrogen fixation into plants., • Direct the activities of the research group by supervising some projects personally and overseeing projects delegated to group members. You will be expected to provide the intellectual energy and independent thinking necessary to lead a programme of cutting‑edge research and to shape the overall aims and success of the group., • Drive rigorous experimental design, execution, and data interpretation, ensuring robust and reproducible scientific outcomes., • Managing research program through stage gated milestones, with active, no/no-go decisions based on validated research data. Designing research programmes to enable delivery requirements to be considered through development and implementation. Identifying pre‑emptive decisions to enable future scale‑up., • Manage project resources - including personnel, equipment, and budgets - in coordination with the senior leadership team., • Ensure research is conducted ethically and in compliance with EIT policy, regulatory guidance, and best scientific practice., • To generate, maintain and manage collaborations with key teams across EIT Oxford and in the wider scientific and commercial ecosystem to accelerate the path to scientific discovery and impact. To maintain key stakeholder relationships., • To work, where appropriate, with the translation team within EIT to translate the results of research into commercial opportunities consistent with EIT's humane endeavours.To recognise and act on opportunities for the creation and protection of intellectual property. Requirements • Leader of research group(s) within academia or industry., • Recognised thought leader in their field., • Proven ability to manage scientific output for a team of PhDs/Post doctoral researchers., • Experience delivering against long term strategic research programs., • Experience of managing a large team of researchers and scientists., • Project management, communication and resource allocation experience., • Ability to build both internal and external relationships. Working collaboratively with others outside of their discipline., • Competitive salary + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday + options to buy additional days, • Pension, • Life Assurance, • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance, • Hospital Cash Plan, • Therapy Services, • Perk Box, • Electric Car Scheme, • Childcare benefit, • Newly constructed, state‑of‑the‑art laboratories and growth facilities, core scientific and operational support, with substantial core funding., • A collaborative research environment with highly skilled team working at the cutting edge of plant science to create commercially sustainable solutions that tackle humanity’s biggest challenges, including enabling sustainable agriculture and improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production., • Opportunities for professional development including publication, conferences, IP portfolio creation, spin‑out generation, and leadership development. #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. The Scientific Compute and Data team builds the compute, data and tooling foundation behind EIT's science. We run the cloud and GPU infrastructure that the models train on, the data infrastructure that instruments, robots and researchers use, and the data products and shared data models that let one team's results be built on by the next. We provide hands-on expertise in platform engineering, data engineering, and data management, and create common tooling for every lab to accelerate their experiments across gene editing, battery chemistry, plant biology and more. At EIT we are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our Scientific Compute and Data team. Our Data Engineers in Autonomous Systems work within a wider project, AutoLabs. This is where EIT automates the scientific discovery loop: experimental design, execution, analysis, and the learning that feeds back into the next experiment and the lab itself. The AutoLabs data platform captures, stores and serves high-frequency multimodal data. It spans an edge-to-cloud telemetry stack (MQTT, Kafka, media streams such as HLS), streaming APIs, and a growing set of hardware integrations across multiple sites including robotic systems, sensor rigs and lab instruments. Our labs produce raw data for a fast-growing set of models: vision-language-action models, orchestration and monitoring models, and world models that learn the dynamics of a laboratory to simulate experiments before they are run. As a Data Engineer, you’ll work directly alongside AI researchers, software engineers, robotics engineers, and domain scientists to build the data layer that makes our autonomous operations possible. You will contribute to an engineering culture that values robust system design, testing, and deep collaboration, but allows flexibility for rapid prototyping and responsiveness to changing landscapes. • Build high-throughput, low-latency ingestion for live video, sensor telemetry, robot joint state and instrument control signals, integrating validation at the edge before data reaches the cloud., • Work across the edge-to-cloud stack, from edge devices and MQTT brokers through to Kafka topics, cloud storage, and the APIs that serve scientists and ML pipelines., • Turn streams of robot state, instrument output and video into structured database transactions: which arm did what to which sample, when, and what came out., • Build the knowledge graph on top of that, linking inputs to results, so that a fact can always be traced back to the video segment and sensor readings behind it., • Make the output model-ready: the formats, sampling, labelling and provenance that training and evaluation need, working directly with the researchers who consume it.Nobody checks every box - if you’re not sure if you’re qualified, we still encourage you to apply., • You have strong programming experience in Python, and value code quality, reliability, and performance while adapting to an evolving industry., • You think in systems and own them end-to-end - from device output to APIs - and embrace long-term engineering rather than one-off scripts., • Experience with real-time data streaming - Kafka or Pub/Sub (or equivalent), and the challenges that come with high-frequency, low-latency data capture., • You treat reproducibility, version control, schema design and lineage as the things that make good science possible., • A clear, respectful communicator who can collaborate with scientists, roboticists and researchers., • Automated lab or life sciences environments - instrument APIs, lab protocols, and what scientists expect of data quality., • Data pipelines for physical systems: robotics (e.g. MQTT), autonomous vehicles, lab or clinical instruments, industrial control, or similar environments., • Knowledge, entity, search or feed systems where correctness under continuous update was the hard part., • Stateful stream processing (Flink, Kafka Streams, Beam or similar): event time, watermarks, exactly-once., • APIs for data ingestion and consumption with FastAPI, gRPC or GraphQL., • Graph stores and entity resolution or curation at scale, where the interesting decisions are about what to keep, merge or drop., • Experience working close to model development, such as curating training or evaluation data, or building the data systems that feed models. You don’t need to be a machine learning engineer, but you should know what makes a dataset good., • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services, • 2 days per week in Oxford office, 1 day per week in employee’s choice of Oxford or London office, 2 days per week work from any UK location., • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world-class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting-edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. Areas of exploration include: • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant-based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state-of-the-art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long-term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. EIT is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Scientist in Photosynthesis Assay Development to join the ‘Yield and Photosynthesis’ programme. This initiative aims to increase sustainable agricultural output from existing farmland by developing crop varieties with higher yield and greater resilience to a changing climate. The successful candidate will develop and apply experimental platforms to evaluate the effects of engineered protein variants on photosynthetic efficiency, photoprotection and carbon assimilation. By combining transient plant expression systems, molecular biology, and advanced photosynthetic phenotyping, this work will accelerate the identification and validation of proteins capable of improving crop productivity. The ultimate goal of this research is to deliver transformative improvements in agricultural productivity and resilience, enabling farmers to achieve greater yields from existing agricultural land while reducing the environmental footprint of food production. The main responsibilities of the successful candidate will be to develop, optimise, and scale experimental platforms for evaluating the effects of engineered protein variants on photosynthetic performance. Successful delivery of these research objectives will require expertise in developing and applying robust photosynthetic phenotyping assays, plant expression systems, molecular biology, and plant biochemistry. The successful candidate will apply strong experimental design and troubleshooting skills to establish robust, reproducible and scalable workflows suitable for high-throughput evaluation of candidate proteins. Insights generated from this work will directly inform go/no-go decisions for downstream crop transformation and validation. The successful candidate will work closely with computational scientists, protein engineers, and plant biologists to translate candidate variants into experimentally testable hypotheses. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop innovative photosynthetic phenotyping platforms for crop improvement while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation from lab to global impact. The scientist will be expected to contribute to publications and IP generation and play an active role in translating research into real-world and commercial solutions aligned with EITʼs mission of humane technological advancement. This is an exciting opportunity to perform cutting-edge research in a dynamic, well-supported, and purpose-driven environment. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to incorporate cutting edge research techniques into experiments., • Support the photosynthetic characterization of transformed crop plants as candidate traits progress through the validation pipeline., • Present scientific work at seminars within the team and at external meetings, including contributing to institute-wide discussions on developments within the field., • Collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem., • Draft scientific papers and contribute to preparation of publications., • Assist in the translation of scientific results into commercial opportunities consistent with the EIT humane endeavours., • Recognise and act on opportunities for the creation of IP and cooperating in patent protection and in impact delivery., • Completed PhD in plant physiology, plant molecular biology, plant synthetic biology, plant biochemistry, or a related discipline., • Demonstrated experience measuring photosynthetic performance using chlorophyll fluorescence approaches, including PAM fluorometry and interpretation of parameters such as PSII efficiency, electron transport rate (ETR), non-photochemical quenching (NPQ), and related photosynthetic traits., • Demonstrated experience measuring photosynthetic performance across one or more photosynthetic systems (e.g. intact plants, leaf discs, plant cell cultures, algae or cyanobacteria)., • Experience designing robust, reproducible and scalable experimental workflows for evaluating photosynthetic traits., • Strong proficiency in molecular biology, including PCR, primer and construct design, molecular cloning, nucleic acid and protein extraction, gel electrophoresis and immunodetection., • Excellent skills in experimental design, data analysis, statistical evaluation, and visualisation., • Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research to the highest standard, and to publish results in peer-reviewed journals., • Demonstrated experience working with a range of transient plant expression systems, including cell cultures, protoplasts, and/or Agrobacterium-infiltrated tissues., • Demonstrated experience measuring photosynthesis using gas exchange systems (e.g., LI-CORs) and analysing photosynthetic responses to environmental and genetic perturbations., • Demonstrated experience using fluorescent reporters to visualize protein expression levels and/or subcellular protein localisation., • Demonstrated experience in genetic engineering applied to a range of plant species, including stable transgenic approaches as well as CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing., • Demonstrated experience in advanced microscopy analysis and imaging of plant cells or tissues using light, fluorescence, and confocal microscopy techniques., • Experience analysing large biological datasets using Python and/or R., • Experience preparing, processing or analysing next-generation sequencing (NGS) datasets., • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services, • You must be eligible to work in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary., • You must be based in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford., • During peak periods, some longer hours may be required and some working across multiple time zones due to the global nature of the programme. #J-18808-Ljbffr

The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) tackles humanity's greatest challenges by turning science and technology into impactful global solutions. Focused on areas such as health, food security, sustainable agriculture, climate change, clean energy, and robotics in an era of artificial intelligence, EIT blends groundbreaking research with practical applications to deliver lasting results. A cornerstone of EIT's mission is its upcoming 300,000-square‑foot research facility at the Oxford Science Park, set to open in 2027. This campus will feature advanced labs, an oncology and preventative care clinic, and collaborative spaces to strengthen its partnership with the University of Oxford. It will also host the Ellison Scholars, driving innovation for societal benefit. The Pathogen Mission highlights EIT's transformative approach, using Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) and Oracle's cloud technology to create a global pathogen metagenomics system. This initiative aims to improve diagnostics, provide early epidemic warnings, and guide treatments by profiling antimicrobial resistance. The goal is to deliver certified diagnostic tools for widespread use in labs, hospitals, and public health. EIT fosters a culture of collaboration, innovation, and resilience, valuing diverse expertise to drive sustainable solutions to humanity's enduring challenges. • Ensure data in the platform is acquired, processed, curated, and made accessible to scientists, digital analytics products, bioinformatics, and AI at a high standard of quality and availability., • Ensure data access adheres to FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re‑usable)., • Ensure data is secured and compliant with regulatory, legal, and data sharing requirements., • Ensure efficient, performant, and high‑quality pipelines for data ingestion into the platform., • Contribute to building data management components, including reference data management, de‑identification, data curation, pathogen and technical metadata catalogues, and data access controls., • Ensure efficient, secure, scalable, available, and performant data storage components, including genomic variant storage, clinical data stores, and clinical imaging., • Ensure robust ingest services capable of seamlessly integrating data from distributed sequencing devices, including real‑time telemetry streams., • Ensure data is processed to enable optimal access and consumption by digital analysis products, bioinformatics pipelines, and researchers/scientists., • Deep experience in building modern data platforms using cloud‑based architectures and tools., • Experience delivering data engineering solutions on cloud platforms, preferably Oracle OCI, AWS, or Azure., • Proficient in Python and workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or Prefect., • Expert in data modeling, ETL, and SQL., • Experience with real‑time analytics from telemetry and event‑based streaming (e.g., Kafka)., • Experience managing operational data stores with high availability, performance, and scalability., • Expertise in data lakes, lakehouses, Apache Iceberg, and data mesh architectures., • Proven ability to build, deliver, and support modern data platforms at scale., • Strong knowledge of data governance, data quality, and data cataloguing., • Experience with modern database technologies, including Iceberg, NoSQL, and vector databases., • Embraces innovation and works closely with scientists and partners to explore cutting‑edge technology., • Knowledge of master data, metadata, and reference data management., • Understanding of Agile practices and sprint‑based methodologies., • Active contributor to knowledge sharing and collaboration., • Familiarity with genomics and associated data standards., • Experience with healthcare clinical data and standards such as OMOP and SNOMED., • Familiarity with containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes., • Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows., • Strong collaborator with excellent communication skills., • Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment., • Eagerness to learn and cross‑train in new technologies., • Proactive and hands‑on approach to exploring new tools and developing proof of concepts (POCs)., • Competitive salary on offer., • Enhanced holiday pay., • Pension., • Life Assurance., • Income Protection., • Private Medical Insurance., • Hospital Cash Plan., • Therapy Services., • Perk Box., • Electric Car Scheme. At the Ellison Institute, we believe a collaborative, inclusive team is key to our success. We are building a supportive environment where creative risks are encouraged and everyone feels heard. Valuing emotional intelligence, empathy, respect, and resilience, we encourage people to be curious and to have a shared commitment to excellence. Join us and make an impact! • You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary., • You will live in, relocate to, or be within easy commuting distance of Oxford., • During peak periods, some longer hours may be required and some working across multiple time zones due to the global nature of the programme. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Are you an HCPC-registered Paramedic looking to step away from shift work and blue-light pressures, while still using your clinical judgement and broad emergency-care experience every day? Gaia Recruitment is recruiting experienced Paramedics into permanent, hybrid PIP assessment roles in London, working with one of the DWP's health assessment providers. You'll carry out assessments for people applying for Personal Independence Payment (PIP), using your clinical judgement to produce clear, evidence-based reports on how their health conditions affect daily living and mobility. The role is hybrid, combining home-based telephone and video assessments with face-to-face assessments at a London assessment centre. This is a genuine career move for paramedics who want a better work–life balance, structured training and a competitive salary – with an additional bonus of up to 10% on top. Carrying out PIP assessments by telephone and video from home, and face to face at a London assessment centre Taking a thorough history of each person's health conditions and how they affect everyday activities such as preparing food, managing treatment, communicating and getting around Applying your clinical knowledge to assess daily living and mobility needs across physical and mental health conditions Writing clear, accurate, evidence-based reports to the required quality standards Treating every claimant with empathy, dignity and professionalism Taking part in ongoing audit, feedback and professional development HCPC registration: Paramedic with a live, unrestricted HCPC registration Experience: At least 1 year of post-registration experience Clinical breadth: Broad clinical knowledge across physical and mental health conditions – your pre-hospital experience is a real strength here Communication: Strong communication and listening skills, with the confidence to manage sensitive conversations IT & home working: Good IT skills, a suitable private space to work from home, and the ability to write concise, well-reasoned reports Vetting: Ability to pass enhanced vetting and background checks Bonus scheme: Up to 10% discretionary bonus, paid quarterly Pension & insurance: Private pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance, and access to a private GP service Referral bonus: Earn a bonus for recommending colleagues Perks & discounts: Online shopping discounts and a range of financial and lifestyle options, including salary finance and an employee assistance programme Work–life balance & leave Predictable hours: No routine nights, weekends or unsociable shifts – a more structured routine than frontline ambulance work Holiday entitlement: 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy additional days Hybrid working: A mix of home-based and centre-based assessments, cutting down your commute Family leave: Enhanced maternity and parental leave Training & professional development** Paid training & accreditation: Paid, structured training programme leading to formal DWP accreditation CPD & registration: Supported and paid CPD, plus reimbursement of your HCPC registration fee - Hours: Monday to Friday, daytime – no nights, weekends, on-call or blue-light shifts - Sector: Healthcare / Paramedic / Allied Health - Recruiter: Gaia Recruitment Ltd - Why apply through Gaia Recruitment? - Gaia Recruitment is clinician-founded, with over 20 years' experience in DWP specialist recruitment. We understand these roles from the inside, and we'll support you at every stage – from your first conversation through to assessment preparation, interview and your first day. - Honest, expert advice from a team that knows the role and the providers - Interview and assessment preparation tailored to the role - Support throughout vetting and onboarding - How to apply: - Apply today with your up-to-date CV and one of our specialist consultants will be in touch to talk you through the role, the salary and the next steps. - Interested but want to know more first? Get in touch – we're always happy to have an informal, confidential chat. - Gaia Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. TPBN1_UKTJ

Job ID: 31152152Posted: Posted 30+ Days AgoStart Date: 2026-08-27Location: United Kingdom Ensure you read the information regarding this opportunity thoroughly before making an application. • WitneyTime Type: Full timeJOB DESCRIPTION:Senior Specialist Regulatory AffairsLocation: WitneyAbbott is about the power of health. For more than 130 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life.Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.World Leader in Glucose Monitoring, Abbott Diabetes Care designs, develops and manufactures glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and hospital settings. We have a Centre of Excellence in Witney for the development and manufacture of electrodes and biosensors used by patients and healthcare professionals for the day-to-day management of diabetes.The site has been instrumental in the research, development and manufacture of the FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System as well as exciting developments in the Libre family including FreeStyle Libre 2, FreeStyle Libre 3 and the Libre Sense system. We are passionate about doing work that improves the quality of people’s lives.We’re hiring a Senior Specialist Regulatory Affairs to join the EMEAP regulatory affairs team, which is growing to meet the demands of the business and to support a strong product pipeline.Primary Job FunctionYou will be responsible for a portfolio of cutting-edge medical devices & IVDs, leading regulatory activities for new product introductions and significant on-market changes for the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Pakistan (EMEAP) region. You will work as part of a global team, to develop, lead and implement strategies that will ensure the timely introduction of new products onto the international market in a fast-paced environment.You will coordinate and oversee preparation of complete and scientifically sound regulatory submissions and lead interactions with the Notified Body and country regulatory contacts to facilitate the regulatory submission review process to ensure a timely approval process. Core Job ResponsibilitiesFormulate, develop and lead business critical regulatory strategies for the EMEAP region.Act as the regulatory subject matter expert in design control projects, assessing changes and managing roll out programs for existing products and new launches.Become a technical expert in ADC devices and support interactions with EU Notified Body/UK Approved Body, as well as competent authorities, as requiredManage the creation and development of EU & UK Technical files in accordance with MDR 2017/745, IVDR 2017/746 and other application regulations.Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior team membersIdentify and implement process improvements and efficiencies per the global regulatory affairs strategy.EducationBachelor’s degree or equivalent preferably in a Scientific discipline e.g. Chemistry, life Sciences, Biology.Minimum Experience RequiredKnowledge of MDR 2017/745 Regulations and ISO13485 is essential, additionally, knowledge of IVDR 2017/746 is preferredExperience within a medical device or healthcare manufacturing industry in a regulatory or quality role.Experience of Technical File creation and maintenance, as well as post market changesExperience of working with Notified Bodies and/ or other regulatory bodiesYou need to have excellent written and oral communication skills necessary to be able to produce succinct reports and documentation and to effectively communicate with other departments, managers and external regulatory organizations.In addition to a competitive salary, Abbott offers a highly attractive benefits package which includes a defined-contribution pension scheme, a share ownership scheme, private healthcare, life assurance, and a flexible benefits scheme which you can tailor to your own requirements. xrnqpay The base pay for this position is N/AIn specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.JOB FAMILY:Regulatory OperationsDIVISION:ADC Diabetes CareLOCATION:United Kingdom > Witney : Production FacilityADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:WORK SHIFT:StandardTRAVEL:Yes, 5 % of the TimeMEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:Not ApplicableSIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Not Applicable

Job ID: 31154395Posted: Posted 8 Days AgoStart Date: 2026-10-15Location: United Kingdom Any additional information you require for this job can be found in the below text Make sure to read thoroughly, then apply. • WitneyTime Type: Full timeJOB DESCRIPTION:Job DescriptionBring your passion, ideas and purpose to life in a company that can truly help you achieve your full potential.As a result of strong business growth, industry-leading product development in the biosensor business and a long-term commitment to high volume manufacturing in our Witney Centre of Excellence, we have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Operations Engineering team.About the RoleAs a Project Engineer, you’ll have opportunity to introduce significant bespoke automated machines and play an initial step in the validation of them. The role is essential to our business as we bring on board more machines, and look to make improvements to existing ones. Your work starts through being connected with many on site cross-functional teams, where you will be a key voice in owning of the validation strategy that you and the team will undertake. Day to day, you will:create a project plan in order to deliver the work to the business, taking into consideration timelines, assessment and minimisation of risks, communication to stakeholdersbe connected to and very much aware of what the changes your project is introducing to the business, and aware of the benefits it will be delivering onYou will be responsible for delivering validated machines into Production; these are used not just for production of our medical devices, but also critically for the inspection of these devices. A key part in this is learning both the technical aspects of the machines, and how we need to test them to validate they are truly functioning as we define needed for the medical device production. From this, you have then opportunity to become a subject matter expert, and become a key technical voice within cross-functional project teams and with our suppliers. You will take the lead on managing your projects, developing new validation tests, and executing process equipment validations for these production machines. As our production machines are complex capital equipment projects, your work will also involve occasionally visiting supplier sites.Why This Role Is ExcitingThis is more than a job — it’s a chance to grow. You’ll work with state‑of‑the‑art automation technologies alongside an incredibly skilled engineering community spanning projects, process, production, systems, software, R&D, and machine vision. Your work will directly shape the future of healthcare by supporting our expanding biosensor manufacturing capabilities.The role offers opportunity to progress through development to senior engineering level – this might be line managing for some, or technical expertise for others.What We’re Looking ForWe’d love to hear from you if you bring: A minimum of HNC in Engineering discipline, with preference given to degree level education Proven experience in Project Engineering, with preference to Automated Machinery Technical project management of your projects A passion for problem‑solving Curiosity, technical rigour, and an eye for continuous improvement Strong documentation discipline A collaborative mindset and willingness to mentor others An awareness and understanding of regulated environmentsAs you’d expect from an innovative global health care company, we offer a competitive range of benefits including excellent salaries, a class-leading defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance, subsidised canteen and a flexible benefits scheme. Here at Witney, we also like to help our employees live life to the fullest, and therefore we offer a range of optional initiatives for you to get involved in, including onsite allotments, couch to 5k campaigns, bee keeping, yoga and more!Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. Joining us, you can shape your career as you shape the future of healthcare.With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.World Leader in Blood Glucose Monitoring, Abbott's Diabetes Care business designs, develops and manufactures glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and hospital settings. We have a Centre of Excellence in Witney for the manufacture of electrodes and biosensors used by patients and healthcare professionals for the day-to-day management of diabetes. The Operations group is the largest team in the Witney facility, producing high volumes of test strips and biosensors each year to the stringent quality standards demanded by European and US authorities and our internal quality systems. xrnqpay The base pay for this position is N/AIn specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.JOB FAMILY:EngineeringDIVISION:ADC Diabetes CareLOCATION:United Kingdom > Witney : Production FacilityADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:WORK SHIFT:StandardTRAVEL:Yes, 5 % of the TimeMEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:Not ApplicableSIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Not Applicable

Join us at EIT: At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. Welcome to the Plant Biology Institute: The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world-class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting-edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. Areas of exploration include: • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside., • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant-based production platforms for food and medicines., • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state-of-the-art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long-term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. Your Role: EIT is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Scientist or Senior Scientist in Plant Metabolic Engineering to join its pioneering Plant Biology Institute. The successful candidate will lead the development of innovative metabolic engineering and synthetic biology approaches to manipulate plant cellular conditions. Specifically, the candidate will design, implement and characterise engineering strategies to optimise plant respiratory activity, energy status, and redox balance. These engineering approaches will be first evaluated and optimised in plant cell cultures guided by iterative design–build–test–learn cycles before being translated into whole plants for improving productivity. The scientist will be expected to contribute to IP generation and play an active role in translating research into real-world and commercial solutions aligned with EIT’s mission of humane technological advancement. This role offers a unique opportunity to conduct high-impact research at the forefront of plant science while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation from lab to global impact. Your Responsibilities: • Design, implement and characterise engineering strategies to manipulate plant respiratory activity, energy status, and redox balance, • Develop and apply methods to quantify cellular respiratory activity, energy status, redox balance and other relevant metabolic responses in plant cells and tissues, • Lead experiments in plant cell cultures and whole plants, ensuring that findings are effectively translated between the two experimental systems, • Lead phenotyping of engineered cell cultures and plant lines using physiological, biochemical, imaging and multi-omics approaches (e.g., transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomics), • Apply iterative design–build–test–learn cycles to develop and refine engineering strategies, • Advance promising engineering strategies into whole plants for functional validation, • Drive rigorous experimental design, execution, and data interpretations, ensuring robust and reproducible scientific outcomes, • Deliver research progress through stage gated milestones, • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to incorporate cutting edge research techniques into experiments, • Present scientific work at seminars within EIT and at external meetings, including contributing to discussions on developments within the field, • Assist in mentoring other members of the research group where appropriate, • Assist in the translation of scientific results into commercial opportunities consistent with the EIT humane endeavours, • Recognise and act on opportunities for the creation of IP and cooperating in patent protection and in impact delivery, • Conduct research ethically, in compliance with EIT policy, regulatory guidance, and best scientific practice Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience: • PhD in Plant Biology, Synthetic Biology, Metabolic Engineering, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology or a related discipline, • Strong research background with expertise in one or more areas relevant to the role. Indicative examples include: o Demonstrated experience in plant metabolic engineering and synthetic biology o Demonstrated experience in the targeted manipulation of cellular processes o Demonstrated experience developing or applying methods to measure respiration, energy status, redox balance and/or other related metabolic parameters o Demonstrated experience of transient and stable genetic engineering in plant cell cultures, tissues and/or whole plants Desirable Skills, Qualifications & Experience: • Experience with advanced microscopy analysis and imaging of plant cells or tissues using light, fluorescence, and confocal microscopy techniques, • Experience with plant gas-exchange, • Experience generating and preparing biological samples for transcriptomic, metabolomic and proteomic analyses., • Experience with laboratory automation, robotics and high-throughput experimental workflows, • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services #J-18808-Ljbffr

About the positionDescriptionJoin us at EIT:At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas: Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture Climate Change & Managing CO2 Artificial Intelligence & RoboticsThis is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org .Your Role:EIT is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer with demonstrable experience to design, build and operate a secure, scalable and highly available Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform supporting enterprise applications, scientific research and AI workloads. Working closely with Infrastructure, Cyber Security and Software Engineering teams, you will deliver modern cloud services using Infrastructure as Code, automation and cloud-native best practices.Your Responsibilities: Design, build, automate and operate secure, scalable, highly available OCI platform services and workloads. Manage OCI networking, compute, storage, identity, DNS, load balancing, object storage, monitoring and logging. Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with Git-based CI/CD. Implement cloud security controls, IAM roles and policies, network segmentation, secrets management, vulnerability remediation and audit requirements. Establish platform monitoring, alerting, logging, capacity management, backup, disaster recovery and incident-response procedures. Manage patching, upgrades, lifecycle management and service reliability for cloud workloads. Support application, research and AI teams with reusable cloud patterns, self-service capabilities and technical guidance. Optimise OCI consumption, performance and cost, working with stakeholders on forecasting and governance. Maintain architecture documentation, standards, runbooks and operational procedures.RequirementsEssential Skills, Qualifications & Experience: Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or another major public cloud platform. Experience designing and supporting secure, scalable cloud infrastructure. Experience using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code. Knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, security, monitoring and backup. Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines. Linux administration experience. Scripting skills in Bash, PowerShell or Python. Strong troubleshooting, documentation and communication skills.Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience: OCI certifications, such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate or Professional. Experience with Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), Docker and Kubernetes. Experience supporting AI, data, research or high-performance computing workloads. Experience with cloud security, vulnerability management and compliance controls. Knowledge of VMware, hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure integration.BenefitsWe offer the following benefits: Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July. Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5% Life Assurance. Income Protection Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan Employee discounts Electric car scheme Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme Cycle to Work Scheme Family Planning Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments Coaching & Therapy servicesWorking Together - What It Involves: You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate). During peak periods, some longer hours may be required and some working across multiple time zones due to the global nature of the programme. #J-18808-Ljbffr

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas: Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture Climate Change & Managing CO₂ Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org . EIT are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement and support secure, reliable and scalable IT infrastructure across on-premises, hybrid-cloud and cloud environments. Working closely with Network Infrastructure, Cyber Security and Software Engineering teams, you will maintain core server, storage, virtualisation, backup and cloud services supporting enterprise applications, scientific research and AI workloads. • Design, implement and maintain server, storage, virtualisation and cloud infrastructure., • Administer Windows Server, Linux and Microsoft Azure services, including identity and access-management components., • Manage VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter environments., • Support core infrastructure services including DNS, DHCP, backup, disaster recovery and monitoring., • Manage server patching, upgrades, lifecycle replacement and capacity planning., • Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure incidents, problems and service requests., • Maintain secure infrastructure configurations in line with cyber-security and audit requirements., • Support hybrid-cloud connectivity and integration with OCI, Azure and other cloud services where required., • Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks and operational procedures., • Identify and deliver infrastructure automation, resilience and service-improvement opportunities., • Experience administering Microsoft infrastructure, including Windows Server and Azure resources., • Deploying and managing virtualised environments using VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter., • Knowledge of server and storage hardware technologies., • Strong understanding of core networking services, including DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, firewalls and VPN connectivity., • Proven experience supporting enterprise IT infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking and cloud services., • Experience with backup, disaster recovery, patching and infrastructure lifecycle management., • Experience with enterprise storage, SAN/NAS and backup solutions., • Experience using scripting and automation tools, such as PowerShell, Bash or Python., • Knowledge of infrastructure monitoring, alerting and incident resolution., • Strong troubleshooting, documentation and communication skills., • Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS or other public-cloud platforms., • Experience using Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools., • Knowledge of Git and CI/CD pipelines., • Knowledge of cyber security controls, vulnerability remediation and privileged access management., • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or container platforms., • Experience supporting hybrid-cloud environments and cloud migration projects., • Relevant technical certifications, such as Microsoft, VMware, Cisco or Oracle Cloud., • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus., • Enhanced holiday., • Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year., • You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%., • Life Assurance., • Income Protection., • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan., • Employee discounts., • Electric car scheme., • Nursery., • Salary Sacrifice scheme., • Cycle to Work Scheme., • Family Planning., • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments., • Coaching & Therapy services. You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate). During peak periods, some longer hours may be required and some working across multiple time zones due to the global nature of the programme. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Join us at EIT: At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas: • Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, • Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, • Climate Change & Managing CO₂, • Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org. The Plant Biology Institute, headed by Professor Steve Kelly, is a key part of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. The institute aims to develop impactful and commercially sustainable solutions for improving global food production and planetary health through pioneering plant science research. The Plant Biology Institute will unite world-class researchers who are focused on expanding the frontiers of plant science. Our research is focused on enhancing our ability to feed the planet while simultaneously improving the climate and ecosystem outcomes of food production. By embedding cutting-edge plant science research within an organisation that is focused on solving global challenges at scale, we aim to accelerate the timeline from discovery to global impact. Areas of exploration include: • Improved plant productivity, both indoors and outside, • Reduced reliance on inputs including water, fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides., • Novel decarbonised plant-based production platforms for food and medicines, • Advanced technologies that speed up discovery and deployment in plants. Researchers will have access to state-of-the-art laboratory and plant growth facilities and have opportunities to collaborate with experts at the forefront of research on AI, automation, and generative biology across the EIT ecosystem. They will also work with global leaders in market development, commercialisation, and impact creation. The Plant Biology Institute has long‑term substantial funding to support the unique scale and ambition of its vision. EIT is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Scientist or Senior Scientist in Plant Cell Screening and Photosynthesis Engineering to join its pioneering Plant Biology Institute. The successful candidate will lead the development of an innovative plant cell‑based screening platform for evaluating carbon fixation. Once established, the platform will be used to identify improved variants of photosynthesis enzymes and assess engineered metabolic pathways designed to enhance photosynthesis. The most promising enzyme variants and pathway designs will be advanced into whole plants to support the development of high‑performance crop varieties with enhanced photosynthetic capacity. The scientist will be expected to contribute to IP generation and play an active role in translating research into real‑world and commercial solutions aligned with EIT's mission of humane technological advancement. This role offers a unique opportunity to conduct high‑impact research at the forefront of plant science while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation from lab to global impact. • Lead the development of a plant cell‑based screening platform to assess carbon fixation and other physiological responses in suspension cultures, • Develop and apply quantitative methods to measure carbon fixation rates in plant cell suspensions, • Use the plant cell‑based screening platform to Identify improved variants of photosynthesis enzymes, • Use the plant cell‑based screening platform to assess engineered metabolic pathways designed to enhance photosynthesis, • Lead genetic engineering experiments in plant cell cultures, including targeted gene knockouts, gene insertions, and CRISPR‑based genome editing, • Apply iterative design‑build‑test‑learn cycles to develop and refine engineering strategies, • Advance promising enzyme variants and pathway designs into whole plants for functional validation, • Drive rigorous experimental design, execution, and data interpretations, ensuring robust and reproducible scientific outcomes, • Deliver research progress through stage gated milestones, • Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to incorporate cutting edge research techniques into experiments, • Present scientific work at seminars within EIT and at external meetings, including contributing to discussions on developments within the field, • Assist in mentoring other members of the research group where appropriate, • Assist in the translation of scientific results into commercial opportunities consistent with the EIT humane endeavours, • Recognise and act on opportunities for the creation of IP and cooperating in patent protection and in impact delivery, • Conduct research ethically, in compliance with EIT policy, regulatory guidance, and best scientific practice, • PhD in Plant Biology, Plant Physiology, Photosynthesis, Synthetic Biology, Metabolic Engineering, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry or a related discipline, • Strong research background with expertise in one or more areas relevant to the role. Indicative examples include:, • Demonstrated experience developing or applying cell‑based methods to measure carbon fixation, photosynthetic activity and/or metabolic performance, • Demonstrated experience in engineering photosynthesis or carbon fixation, • Demonstrated experience in plant metabolic engineering, enzyme engineering or synthetic biology, • Demonstrated experience designing, generating or screening enzyme variant libraries, • Demonstrated experience with transient and stable genetic engineering in plant cell cultures, including targeted gene knockout, gene insertion, and CRISPR‑based genome editing, • Experience using bioreactor and microculture platforms for plant cell cultivation, physiological monitoring and experimental workflows, • Experience with plant gas‑exchange analysis and chlorophyll fluorescence measurements in plant cells or tissues, • Knowledge of enzyme biochemistry, assembly and regulation, • Experience generating and preparing biological samples for transcriptomic, metabolomic and proteomic analyses, • Experience with laboratory automation, robotics and high‑throughput experimental workflows, • Salary dependent on experience + travel allowance + bonus, • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July., • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%, • Life Assurance., • Income Protection, • Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan, • Employee discounts, • Electric car scheme, • Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Family Planning, • Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments, • Coaching & Therapy services #J-18808-Ljbffr