Bioinformatics AI Engineer — LLM Workflows for Discovery

Bactobio; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

The chance to be part of a diverse, hi

Mentors and leaders access

Modern Central London labs with office

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Paid maternity/paternity leave

Up to 2 months paid sick leave

Flexible start times

4 weeks sabbatical after 5 years

Udemy training allowance

Bike2Work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Bactobio in London is seeking a Bioinformatics Applied AI Engineer to design and build AI-powered workflows that drive insights in bioinformatics and metabolomic chemistry. You will turn complex scientific questions into actionable recommendations for researchers, working in Python with frontier models and proprietary data.

The role sits in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team of about fifty, focused on delivering scalable AI solutions that support antimicrobial discovery and platform

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in a quantitative field with ML/AI focus, or 2+ years of ML/AI industry experience.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, tool use, evaluation, knowledge graphs, and multimodal data.
• Proficiency in Python and modern ML and data science tooling; experience with biological data.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate daily with wet-lab scientists to turn ambiguous scientific decisions into well-specified tasks with clear success criteria.
• Design and build multi-step LLM workflows that query biological data and knowledge graphs and produce recommendations with traceable reasoning.
• Build benchmarking infrastructure and curate evaluation datasets.
• Keep up with frontier model capabilities, and iterate on models, prompts, tool design, and orchestration.
• Contribute to our software platform, especially data architecture, pipelines, and model/workflow deployment.

Skills

Python programming

ML/AI experience

LLMs & tool use

Biological data handling

Research experience

Education

Master's or PhD in quantitative field

Tools

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Bactobio in London is seeking a Bioinformatics Applied AI Engineer to design and build AI-powered workflows that drive insights in bioinformatics and metabolomic chemistry. You will turn complex scientific questions into actionable recommendations for researchers, working in Python with frontier models and proprietary data.

The role sits in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team of about fifty, focused on delivering scalable AI solutions that support antimicrobial discovery and platform