Product Development Scientist, Biotech Lab & Stability Testing

Portal Biotech Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Portal Biotech Limited is seeking a Product Development Scientist to join the DevOps‑led Product Development team at our White City HQ in London. You will help shape biological components into defined products, including formulation, packaging, storage and launch readiness.

This hands‑on lab role focuses on planned stability studies, lot‑to‑lot comparisons and performance runs on our nanopore platform, supported by electrophysiology and large‑dataset analysis.

Qualifications

• BSc or MSc (or equivalent) in a life sciences discipline.
• Hands-on experience developing, optimising or testing biological/enzymatic products or workflows.
• Experience running structured, repeat studies with careful record-keeping.
• Experience analysing larger datasets using Python, R or similar, with a grounding in statistics.

Responsibilities

• Plan, run and report stability and shelf-life studies, including real-time, accelerated and in-use studies.
• Shape product formulations, component formats, kit configurations, specifications and performance metrics.
• Run repeated, well-controlled performance testing on the platform using electrophysiology and data analysis.
• Analyse and trend large experimental datasets using Python or similar, applying statistics to support product decisions.
• Troubleshoot and improve performance, robustness and reproducibility.
• Define what each product will need to launch, including specifications and documentation.
• Write protocols, reports and SOPs, and support method transfer to Biologics production.
• Collaborate with Biologics, platform, engineering, data science and R&D teams.

Skills

Biochemistry

Biophysics

Molecular biology

Proteomics

Bioengineering

Data analysis

Education

BSc / MSc or equivalent in biochemistry, biophysics, molecular biology, proteomics, bioengineering or related discipline

Tools

Python

R

Job description

Portal Biotech Limited is seeking a Product Development Scientist to join the DevOps‑led Product Development team at our White City HQ in London. You will help shape biological components into defined products, including formulation, packaging, storage and launch readiness.

This hands‑on lab role focuses on planned stability studies, lot‑to‑lot comparisons and performance runs on our nanopore platform, supported by electrophysiology and large‑dataset analysis.