Senior ML Scientist — Generative Cellular Modelling

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

Job summary

Relation, a TechBio company in London, is hiring a Machine Learning Scientist to push generative and predictive models of cellular behaviour. You will work across biology, computation, and engineering in a matrixed environment to translate insights into therapeutic strategies.

You will join a team with access to multiomic datasets and advanced computational infrastructure, contributing to experiments that test hypotheses and accelerate discovery. A PhD and deep ML expertise are required.

Qualifications

• PhD in ML, statistics, computer science, or related quantitative field.
• Deep expertise in generative modelling.
• Strong foundations in probabilistic modelling, representation learning, or neural network architectures for structured or sequential data.
• Excellence in Python and familiarity with scalable ML tooling and high-performance computing.
• A disciplined approach to model evaluation with experiments beyond standard benchmarks.
• Willingness to engage deeply with biological data; single-cell or perturbational datasets are a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement generative modelling approaches that learn intervention effects from diverse biological data, including single-cell perturbation experiments.
• Develop models that go beyond correlation, focusing on generalisation, counterfactual prediction, and experimental design.
• Collaborate with experimental teams to design and validate computational hypotheses via iterative strategies that identify the highest-signal next experiment.
• Evaluate models not just for fit, but for causal coherence, mechanistic fidelity, and utility in guiding real-world interventions.
• Communicate findings clearly to colleagues and stakeholders from different disciplines.

Skills

Generative modelling

Probabilistic modelling

Representation learning

Neural networks

Python

ML tooling

High-performance computing

Model evaluation

Single-cell data

Education

PhD in ML, statistics, computer science, or related quantitative field

Tools

Python

High-performance computing

Job description

Relation, a TechBio company in London, is hiring a Machine Learning Scientist to push generative and predictive models of cellular behaviour. You will work across biology, computation, and engineering in a matrixed environment to translate insights into therapeutic strategies.

You will join a team with access to multiomic datasets and advanced computational infrastructure, contributing to experiments that test hypotheses and accelerate discovery. A PhD and deep ML expertise are required.