Bio ML Software Engineer: Scale Biological Data & Models

Helical Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

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Job summary

Helical Ltd. is seeking a Software Developer with a strong background in computational biology to join our core product development team. You will bridge biological data science and software engineering to bring bio foundation models into production and optimize workflows for large-scale data processing.

The role involves collaborating with ML scientists, backend engineers, and biologists to design scalable pipelines and robust services that power next-generation drug discovery tools.

Qualifications

• MSc/PhD in biology or related life sciences.
• 2+ years of professional software development experience with production code.
• Proficiency in Python and scalable data processing.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable biological data processing pipelines.
• Integrate Bio Foundation Models for production use with ML researchers.
• Develop tools for data visualization, annotation, and QC of biological datasets.
• Collaborate with AI infra and software engineers to improve workflow reliability.
• Contribute to backend services and APIs supporting biological workflows.

Skills

Python

Single-cell analysis

Biological reasoning

Data fluency

Git workflows

Software development

Education

MSc or PhD in Biology, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics

Tools

Docker

AnnData/scanpy

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Job description

Helical Ltd. is seeking a Software Developer with a strong background in computational biology to join our core product development team. You will bridge biological data science and software engineering to bring bio foundation models into production and optimize workflows for large-scale data processing.

The role involves collaborating with ML scientists, backend engineers, and biologists to design scalable pipelines and robust services that power next-generation drug discovery tools.