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# Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Basecamp Research

- **Company:** Basecamp Research
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/basecamp-research/7bed741d-4bf3-4cb2-9e5b-6f4e3b72e664

## Job description

## About Us

Basecamp Research is dedicated to solving major challenges in the life sciences by exploring Beyond Known Biology. Our teams build frontier AI models using BaseData, the world's largest ethically-sourced and globally representative biological dataset. Our Global Research Team collects and curates our own biological data through partnerships with more than 152 organisations in 28 countries, giving its AI access to genetic diversity that doesn't exist for models trained on public database sources. This enables Basecamp Research to design novel protein sequences and biological systems that can accelerate therapeutic research and development. In October 2024 we closed Series B and in January 2026 finalised pre-Series C investment from NVIDIA. With hubs both in London, UK as well as Boston, Massachusetts, USA and partners with biopharma companies and academic institutions worldwide, our work has been recognised with honours including Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Biotech and the FT-backed Sifted AI100 list of Europe's leading AI startups. At Basecamp Research, we pride ourselves on being a diverse, exciting, fun, and flexible place to work. Our team of biologists, engineers, ML scientists, field explorers, and operations specialists are united by a sense of adventure and the belief that nature has already designed the solutions to our planet's greatest challenges - we just need to go out and discover them! If you feel passionate about the power of biology, data, and AI to build a better world, we'd love to hear from you.

## The Role

Our EDEN models, trained on the world's largest ethically-sourced biological dataset, have already designed novel antibiotics validated against priority pathogens in the lab, and prioritised vaccine targets faster than comparable genomic foundation models. We are looking for a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist to join our Genomics team in London, working closely with our deep-learning modelling, engineering, and translational teams. You will focus on defining what data our models require, what “good data”means and validating through evidence the success of our foundational models. You will be a first principles thinker capable of reasoning backwards: defining what data would train a capability, how to structure, and what evaluations would show the model is doing what we intend. You can read more about [EDEN's move into antibiotic and vaccine design](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/basecamp-research-brings-edens-antibiotic-and-vaccine-design-models-to-claude-science-302814440.html).

## What you'll do

- Start from a modelling goal and work out the data behind it: what to assemble or curate, how to define ground truth and label quality, and how to build biologically sound splits homology- and structure-aware, not naive random so that what a model learns holds up.
- Design the evaluations that prove it: the metrics, baselines, and failure analysis that show a model is genuinely capable rather than exploiting leakage or a shortcut in the data.
- Fine-tune and rigorously evaluate genomic or protein models, or work hand in hand with those who do, so that your dataset decisions are grounded in how they actually move model performance.
- Reason about biological meaning from foundational, evolutionary-scale data through to human therapeutic context: target validation evidence, indication mapping, peptide-level questions.
- Run and develop the genomic and protein analyses that depend on sequence analysis, alignment, annotation, comparative and evolutionary approaches with the scepticism to spot when a result is an artefact of the method rather than the biology.
- Work reproducibly, so your datasets and analyses are something the team can rerun and build on rather than a result that only ran once on your machine using whatever tooling fits, from workflow managers to containers, without needing to be a platform engineer.
- Hold the line on data integrity, treating provenance and lineage as first-class parts of the dataset because a model is only as trustworthy as the consented, traceable data underneath it.

## About You

You have demonstrated experience curating data specifically for life-science AI, so you understand what separates a dataset that trains a good model from one that quietly poisons it. That comes from having been close to the models themselves. You've trained, fine-tuned, or run inference on them enough to know what a dataset looks like from the other side. Your foundations are strong. You have core bioinformatics, sequence informatics and the standard genomic and protein toolchain, along with the judgment to know where those tools quietly break down, backed by sound software practice in reproducibility, version control, and pipelines. You have direct experience in human research, functional genomics, or clinically relevant work, the kind where the biology connects to human health rather than sitting at arm's length. You'll likely have a PhD in a relevant field, an MSc with 1-3 years of relevant experience, or a BSc with 3 or more years. Low ego, collaborative instincts, and a startup mentality. You're comfortable with ambiguity and happy to wear multiple hats in a team where everyone contributes towards the company's success.

## What we offer in return

Impactful Mission: This is a rare chance to do work that genuinely matters. You'll join a talented, fast-moving team, access unique biological datasets at scale, and see your contributions shape real breakthroughs in AI and curative therapeutics. Collaborative Culture: You'll be surrounded by world-class engineers, scientists, and researchers who care deeply about their work and about each other. With offices in London and Boston, we've built a flexible, cross-functional environment where personal development and real ownership aren't just talking points. High Growth: We truly believe in investing in our people. We make coaching available to team members during steep growth journeys and we have twice-yearly promotion opportunities. People who are really successful here own it and go directly to solve problems at pace, and we ensure reward increases with impact. Comprehensive Benefits: We've built a benefits package people value. That means competitive salary, equity, and private healthcare with no medical history exclusions - so strong that most employees' family members opt into our plan over their own. We also offer Carrot Fertility with IVF stipend, salary sacrifice pension, bike-to-work scheme, life insurance, and more. We are committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of ethnic or national origin, race, religion, sex, age, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, gender identity or any other basis. If you have a disability or additional need that needs accommodating do let us know.

## About Basecamp Research

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Basecamp Research is building general biological intelligence by discovering and designing proteins using AI trained on the world's largest proprietary dataset of novel biological sequences.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Glen Gowers, PhD and Oliver Vince, PhD

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Drug Discovery & Therapeutic Design
- Target customers (B2B, B2C, Enterprise, SMB, etc.): B2B, targeting global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as partners in food and industrial applications.
- Mission or purpose statement: To build biological intelligence by moving beyond known biology, designing programmable therapeutics and solutions for thousands of incurable diseases [basecamp-research.com](https://basecamp-research.com/).

## Products & Services
- **BaseData**: The world’s largest proprietary metagenomic dataset, featuring over 10 billion novel genes from more than 1 million previously unrecorded species, sourced through 200+ global biodiversity partnerships. Purpose-built to train large biological foundation models [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/basecamp-research).
- **EDEN Foundation Models**: A family of GPT-4-scale biology models (including EDEN-28B) trained on 9.7 trillion nucleotide tokens and 10 billion novel genes. These models can design therapeutics across multiple modalities—including protein engineering and genome editing—with greater novelty, precision, and control [basecamp-research.com](https://basecamp-research.com/).
- **Trillion Gene Atlas**: An ambitious scaling initiative to expand the proprietary dataset 1,000x beyond public data, enabling discovery of therapies for thousands of incurable diseases [basecamp-research.com](https://basecamp-research.com/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding: $79.9M across two rounds [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/basecamp-research).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by leaders including Andy Conrad (former CEO of Google's Verily), André Hoffmann (Vice-Chairman of Roche), Feike Sijbesma (Chair of Royal Philips, former CEO of DSM), Paul Polman (former CEO of Unilever), Singular (led Series B), and Systemiq capital (led Series A) [basecamp-research.com](https://basecamp-research.com/). Co-produced a film with Microsoft and NVIDIA about their biodiscovery programme [basecamp-research.com](https://basecamp-research.com/).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 42% YoY to 57 employees. Active job postings increased 300% monthly. The company launched the EDEN preprint and announced the Trillion Gene Atlas in 2026 [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/basecamp-research).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Data Moat**: BaseData is 10x larger than comparable public databases and grows faster than any other dataset, capturing evolutionary and environmental context from 6 continents that public databases lack.
- **Global Biodiversity Supply Chain**: 200+ Access and Benefit Sharing partnerships across 31 countries, creating a defensible, legally-compliant source of novel biological sequences.
- **EDEN Foundation Models at GPT-4 Scale**: Trained on unique, proprietary data, EDEN can design programmable therapeutics across multiple modalities (gene editing, antimicrobials, etc.) from a single model, moving beyond the one-by-one optimisation of traditional directed evolution.
- **World-Class Team**: Alumni from NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, the British Antarctic Survey, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the University of Washington Institute for Protein Design [basecamp-research.com](https://basecamp-research.com/).

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Trillion Gene Atlas**: Expand the proprietary dataset by 1,000x to design therapies for thousands of incurable diseases.
- **Programmable Therapeutics**: Move from protein engineering to a generalisable model of design, enabling "programmable medicines built on the underlying logic of life" [basecamp-research.com](https://basecamp-research.com/).
- **Commercialisation & Partnerships**: Expand business development and licensing with global pharma and biotech companies, as highlighted by the recent hires of a Chief Business Officer from Biogen and a Chief Scientific Officer from Intellia Therapeutics & Tome Biosciences.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Directly contribute to solving humanity's greatest challenges, including incurable diseases, sustainable food supplies, and revolutionary manufacturing—all by exploring biodiversity.
- **High-Calibre, Interdisciplinary Team**: Work alongside explorers (Antarctic ice-divers, marine scientists), graph AI scientists, and biotech veterans from DeepMind, Synthesia, Biogen, and Intellia. The culture is built on "explorers, scientists and policy experts" [basecamp-research.com](https://basecamp-research.com/).
- **Rapid Growth & Impact**: 42% headcount growth YoY and a 300% increase in job postings signal that new hires will shape a fast-scaling company.
- **Global Presence**: HQ in London with offices in the United States, France, and Malta, offering opportunities for international collaboration. The team is split across the UK (45%) and US (31%) [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/basecamp-research).
- **Culture & Perks**: The team values data-driven strategy with a human-first approach, focusing on high-performing, mission-led environments. The VP of People previously scaled teams at Google DeepMind and Synthesia [basecamp-research.com](https://basecamp-research.com/). Remote/hybrid policy is not publicly specified.

## Sources
1. [basecamp-research.com](https://basecamp-research.com/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/basecamp-research)
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/basecamp-research)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/basecamp-research)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/basecamp-research)

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