Application Scientist, Bioengineering & Lab Automation (Sheffield)

Unicorn Biotech; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension with SIPP options

Weekly pastries

Monthly all-hands lunches

Conference attendance

Professional development support

Autonomy and responsibility

Sheffield location near Peak District

Job summary

Unicorn Biotechnologies in Sheffield, UK, is seeking an experienced application scientist to act as the scientist's voice within an engineering development group, helping onboard and support clients implementing our platform.

You will design experiments, run pilot studies, deliver demonstrations, train customers and troubleshoot, with high autonomy and an opportunity to influence product direction in a scale-up environment.

Qualifications

• Prior customer-facing roles in a commercial setting.
• Experience designing experiments to support product development or client objectives.
• Ability to explain complex results to both scientists and customers.
• Willingness to travel nationally and internationally to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute experimental workflows testing devices and subsystems, and feedback to engineering.
• Manage customer projects: pilot studies, lab feasibility, onboarding protocols.
• Deliver demonstrations and technical evaluations for prospects at site or client premises.
• Onboard and train customers, create SOPs and troubleshooting guides with installed systems.
• Act as scientific escalation point for deployed systems and drive issue resolution.

Skills

Customer-facing experience

Experiment design

Scientific communication

Travel willingness

Autonomy and ownership

Education

PhD (preferred)

Tools

AI tooling (Claude/LLMs)

Job description

Unicorn Biotechnologies in Sheffield, UK, is seeking an experienced application scientist to act as the scientist's voice within an engineering development group, helping onboard and support clients implementing our platform.

You will design experiments, run pilot studies, deliver demonstrations, train customers and troubleshoot, with high autonomy and an opportunity to influence product direction in a scale-up environment.