Senior Scientist, R&D

ABOUT US Basecamp Research is building frontier AI for therapeutic design. We believe the future of medicine lies in reprogramming the body to repair itself, and we design the models and the medicines to teach it how. Our EDEN models are trained on BaseData, the world's largest proprietary genomic dataset, with over 10B genes collected through partnerships in more than 30 countries across all seven continents. This gives our AI models access to genetic diversity that doesn't exist in public databases, and enables EDEN to design cell and gene therapies, enzymes, and peptides directly from information about a disease. Our pipeline of EDEN-designed therapeutics, beginning with in vivo cell therapy, is advancing towards clinical development. In September 2026 we closed an oversubscribed $140M Series C led by S32, with participation from NVIDIA, Anthropic's Anthology Fund, Catalio, European Tech Collective, Firebrand River Capital, King Philanthropies, NATO Innovation Fund, NVentures (NVIDIA's venture arm), Redalpine, Rockefeller Foundation, Singular, Sovereign AI and True Ventures. We have offices and labs in London and Boston, we partner with biopharma companies and academic institutions worldwide, and our work has been recognised by Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Biotech, the FT-backed Sifted AI100 list of Europe's leading AI startups as well as Barclays Eagle Labs Ones to watch, AI100. At Basecamp Research, we pride ourselves on being a lean collaborative and global team with extremely specialist and unique skills. Our biologists, engineers, ML scientists and field explorers are united by a sense of adventure and the belief that AI, biology and data, will result in new medicines for patients who have few options today. THE ROLE As we continue to unlock our planet's biodiversity, we are looking for ambitious people with a passion for the development of extraction and sequencing workflows to continuously improve our data generation. You will have the opportunity to help further build out our DNA / RNA pipelines to build the most diverse database in the world, with a particular focus on metagenomic recovery from challenging and varied sample types - water, soil, sediments, faeces, biofilms and beyond. You'll be comfortable with sequencing workflows from end to end, from extraction through to library preparation, and have experience with both short and long read technologies, including high molecular weight (HMW) extraction methods. You'll bring real depth in metagenomic extraction methodologies and the ability to recover usable nucleic acids from difficult, low-biomass or inhibitor-rich matrices. Virology experience in both extraction and sequencing would also be beneficial to this role. You'll understand when good is good enough and can support handover for testing and implementation in production. Your work will contribute directly to Basecamp Research’s Trillion Gene Atlas Project, helping transform diverse global samples into high-quality biological data that can reveal new genes, proteins, pathways, and functions from nature. The role is laboratory based but you will have ownership over your projects, with the opportunity to work closely with our Collaborations team who coordinate sample collection globally, and to have input into the methods for collection or extraction and the molecular biology methods that are applied to a global network of collaborators, seeing your work make an impact in real-time. The role will suit someone with experience who enjoys the technically focused aspects of development, from rapid prototyping to delivery. You'll also have the opportunity to work with the Data teams, who may have specific requirements for particular targeted methods, all with the aim of increasi