Senior Data Scientist — Cellular Imaging & Generative ML

Relation Therapeutics; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Relation Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to advance generative and predictive models of cellular behaviour, focusing on high-content imaging. You will curate imaging datasets, design evaluation strategies, and interpret model outputs to guide experimental decisions in a cutting-edge TechBio setting.

You will work with multi-omic data, deepen interoperability with wet-lab teams, and contribute to model development and evaluation using modern ML tooling and scalable pipelines.

Qualifications

• PhD (or equivalent industry experience) in computational biology, bioinformatics, computer vision, biomedical engineering.
• Strong experience with high-content imaging modalities and data artefact recognition.
• Deep learning approaches to imaging and evaluation design.
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks for ML models, especially imaging data.
• Proficiency with Python data-science stack.

Responsibilities

• Curate training-ready imaging datasets across cell painting and brightfield assays.
• Drive evaluation design for imaging modalities in close partnership with ML and data scientists.
• Surface what models learn about cellular morphology, identify failure modes, and feed findings back into modelling decisions.
• Partner with wet lab assay teams from plate design through to data delivery, ensuring imaging assays remain analytically tractable and yield valuable data.
• Contribute to multi‑modal evaluation: link imaging readouts to single‑cell and perturbation data.
• Communicate methodology and findings clearly and rigorously across the computational team.
• Track developments in foundation models for biological imaging, and bring relevant advances into our work.

Skills

Deep learning for imaging

Python data-science

Imaging data analysis

ML model evaluation

Biology domain knowledge

Education

PhD in computational biology / bioinformatics / CV / biomedical engineering

Tools

PyTorch

scikit-learn

CellProfiler

scikit-image

Job description

Relation Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to advance generative and predictive models of cellular behaviour, focusing on high-content imaging. You will curate imaging datasets, design evaluation strategies, and interpret model outputs to guide experimental decisions in a cutting-edge TechBio setting.

You will work with multi-omic data, deepen interoperability with wet-lab teams, and contribute to model development and evaluation using modern ML tooling and scalable pipelines.