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🌽 Safeguarding the future of food<br><br>We’re on a mission to accelerate the development of more productive, sustainable, nutritious & climate-resilient food sources. 

How? By building the world’s first ML-driven target discovery platform for crop gene-editing. <br><br>🧬 From drug target discovery to crop target discovery<br><br>While gene-editing of crops is becoming ever more efficient, identifying which genes to edit and how remains a significant challenge. 

To overcome this bottleneck, we use cutting-edge deep learning to accurately and efficiently identify high value genetic targets for crop gene-editing. 

Our approach draws inspiration from recent advancements in the drug discovery space, incorporating LLMs, transformers and graph-based technologies to build a best-in-class discovery platform for plant sciences.<br><br>

About Us

Cecy studied Biological Sciences at Oxford University and has an MSc in ML from Imperial College London, specialising in graph-based biological modelling. At Biographica, Cecy leads strategy and business development, leveraging prior experience in drug manufacturing and supply chain at GSK as well as market access strategy consulting for gene-editing technologies.

Cecily Price

Dom has Masters degrees in Maths and Stem Cell Biology, as well as a PhD in Computational Genomics, from Cambridge. In his PhD, and later as an ML researcher at Relation Therapeutics, Dom applied graph ML to target discovery. He leads platform development at Biographica, drawing inspiration from drug discovery to design efficient target discovery methods for crop gene-editing.

Dominic Hall

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We’re driven by curiosity and clarity. That means asking real questions, challenging assumptions, and changing our minds when the evidence points somewhere new. We care more about learning than being right, and we share what we find along the way.

Seek the truth

Responsibility here is about showing up and making things happen. We take initiative, follow through, and we care about the outcome.

Own it&nbsp;

When something needs doing, we lean in, start small, and learn quickly. Speed matters, but only when it’s directed. We focus on what’s most important, make deliberate trade-offs, and move forward with clarity and purpose.

Act fast with intention

We work as a team, not a collection of individuals. That means helping each other succeed, communicating with honesty and respect, and making space for different voices to shape where we go, to get to the outcomes - for the company and for individuals.

Show up for each other

We’re here to solve real problems, not just ship features. We stay focused on work that makes a difference - ambitious, practical, and grounded in the impact it can have on the world.

Build what matters

Our Values

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<h2><span style="font-family: helvetica;">About us</span></h2>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">🌽 Safeguarding the future of food</span></h3>
<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Biographica is on a mission to accelerate the development of more productive, sustainable, nutritious &amp; climate-resilient food sources. To achieve this, we're building the world’s first ML-driven target discovery platform for crop gene-editing.</span></div>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">🧬 From drug target discovery to crop target discovery</span></h3>
<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">While gene-editing of crops is becoming ever more efficient, identifying which genes to edit and how remains a significant challenge. To overcome this bottleneck, we use cutting-edge deep learning to accurately and efficiently identify high value genetic targets for crop gene-editing. Our approach draws inspiration from recent advancements in the drug discovery space, incorporating transformers, graphs &amp; causal-ML to build a best-in-class discovery platform for plant sciences.</span></div>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">👥 Team</span></h3>
<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Led by co-founders Dom (CTO) and Cecy (CEO), we are now a team of 10, including 2 ML engineers, 2 data engineers, 3 bioinformaticians. We primarily work together in person from our office in Spitalfields, London, 4 days per week but this role would be based in our new labs in Rothamsted research, Harpenden.</span></div>
<h2><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What we're looking for</span></h2>
<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We are setting up lab capabilities to generate data for our ML foundation models and experimentally validate our gene ID platform. You will be one of our first experimental hires, helping run daily operations in the lab, establishing and validating required molecular assays and communicating with our computational scientists to design experiments. Your first priorities will be:</span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Designing (or assisting with design of) experiments for target validation in planta</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Supporting with establishment of relevant assays for multi-omic data collection &amp; protoplast reporter assays</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Working as part of a small team of highly capable scientist to study diverse questions in gene expression and gene to trait studies.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Core responsibilities</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experimental design and conducting of experiments to evaluate predicted trait improvements in planta</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Multi-omics data collection (WGS, RNA-seq, Fluorescent readouts) to train/fine-tune Biographica’s ML models</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Supporting with establishment and validation of protoplast gene expression quantification assays</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Clear communication with computational scientists about experimental validation and design</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Coordinate with Rothamsted’s horticultural service to ensure healthy plant material for experiments</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Additional responsibilities</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Day-to-day maintenance of lab equipment (we will use Rothamsted services as much as possible to free up time for scientific work)</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Core competencies</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">PhD in Plant Sciences and ideally ≥1 years of PostDoc or industry experience</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Expertise &amp; experience with collection of ≥1 -Omics modality</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experience in cloning</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experience in plant transformation protocols</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Appreciation for the importance of robust experimental design, rigorous data collection and documentation</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ability to communicate across disciplines. We are a machine learning-first company with a team of machine learning engineers, data engineers, computational biologist and bioinformaticians and we all have to find a common language to work on our shared goal of rapid and accurate gene discovery for agricultural traits</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experience working with A. thaliana and Maize (or another monocot)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Full professional proficiency in English</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Nice to have competencies</span></h3>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experience with ELNs</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experience with phenotyping</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experience with sequencing work (illumina, ONT, pacbio)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experience with lab licences (e.g. DEFRA), phytosanitary certification and MTAs</span></li>
</ul>
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Experimental Scientist (Open Application)

<html><head></head><body><h2><span style="font-family: helvetica;">About us</span></h2>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">🌽 Safeguarding the future of food</span></h3>
<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Biographica is on a mission to accelerate the development of more productive, sustainable, nutritious &amp; climate-resilient food sources. To achieve this, we're building the world’s first ML-driven gene target discovery platform for crop gene-editing.</span></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We use cutting-edge deep learning to pinpoint novel genetics that improve critical crop traits. Our approach draws inspiration from recent advancements in the drug discovery space to deliver a best-in-class discovery platform for plant sciences.</span></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We’re backed by world-class investors and guided by deep scientific and technical expertise. We’ve assembled a team of passionate PhDs, engineers, and product thinkers working at the interface of life sciences and technology.</span></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>This is where you come in.&nbsp;</strong></span></div>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We’re looking for an operations generalist to join our small, high-trust team. You’ll work closely with the Head of Ops (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethbroderick/">Liz</a>) and our founders (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecy-price-0aa21a10a/">Cecy</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dh486/">Dom</a>), across functions, to build scalable systems that support key decision-making and shape how we work. You’ll be solving problems and accelerating progress, helping the team operate at its best. This is a great fit for someone who’s excited to learn across functions and make an immediate impact in a fast-moving biotech company.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Responsibilities&nbsp;</span></h2>
<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this role you’ll get exposure to projects across people ops, finance and legal, to culture, comms, logistics, strategy, and beyond. This is a generalist role at an early stage company, with flexibility to tailor based on your interests and strengths as we grow. Key responsibilities:&nbsp;</span></div>
<ul>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Optimise how we work</span></strong>
<ul>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Create the conditions for high-performance, ensuring the team has the tools, tech, and environments (physical and digital) they need to thrive. Help coordinate OKRs, All Hands, offsites, meetings, and internal comms.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Deliver continuous optimisation of key business infrastructure, building out thoughtful, automated processes and systems to help the team collaborate effectively. Evaluate tooling, simplify workflows, and document best practices</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Support and amplify leadership</span></strong>
<ul>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Prepare briefing docs, surface key insights, and draft follow-ups for high-stakes conversations with investors, advisors, and customers.</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Streamline legal and compliance workflows</span></strong>
<ul>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Assist with contract management, regulatory tracking, and correspondence for employees, contractors, suppliers, and external agencies to keep us aligned and covered.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Build and steward structured systems for critical company information, including financial information, legal contracts, IP, governance documentation, and investor reports.</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Support People &amp; HR operations</span></strong>
<ul>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Help coordinate hiring processes, onboarding, reviews, and culture initiatives, working with leadership and advisors to implement thoughtful, scalable people practices.</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Help shape the voice of Biographica</span></strong>
<ul>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Contribute to internal updates, culture narratives, and external communications (eg. newsletters, grant materials, and investor messaging) that tell a clear, compelling story about what we’re building and why it matters.</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Special projects</span></strong>
<ul>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Take ownership of ad hoc high-impact initiatives that sit between ops, product, science, engineering, and commercial.</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Competencies</span></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Operational excellence with a builder’s mindset</strong>: You know how to design, improve, and scale systems. You balance structure and flexibility in order to move fast.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Strong communicator</strong>: You’re comfortable writing and speaking to different audiences, with clarity. You know how to tailor messages across technical and non-technical audiences.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Proactive, curious, and action-oriented</strong>: You don’t wait to be told what to do. You spot what needs doing, ask sharp questions, and move fast.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>High judgment and low ego</strong>: You handle sensitive information discreetly, navigate ambiguity with thoughtfulness, and lean into feedback and collaboration.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Biotech fluency</strong>: You have a strong academic or professional background in life sciences, enabling you to meaningfully engage with scientists and technical teams, and the broader market.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Why join us?&nbsp;</span></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Join a biotech startup backed by top investors</strong>, building transformative tools at the edge of science and technology, at the exciting early stage.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Do meaningful, high-impact work</strong> with real ownership, ambitious goals, and a mission that matters.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Accelerate your career </strong>in a fast-moving environment with hands-on exposure to operations, strategy, and company-building, and grow into opportunities as we scale.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Work with a curious, collaborative team of experts</strong> and have fun doing it.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Enjoy strong benefits</strong> including a competitive salary, meaningful early-stage share options, private health insurance, and a dedicated learning &amp; development budget.</span></li>
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Operations Manager

<html><head></head><body><h2><span style="font-family: helvetica;">About us</span></h2>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">🌽 Safeguarding the future of food</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Biographica is on a mission to accelerate the development of more productive, sustainable, nutritious &amp; climate-resilient food sources. To achieve this, we're building the world’s first ML-driven target discovery platform for crop gene-editing.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">🧬 From drug target discovery to crop target discovery</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">While gene-editing of crops is becoming ever more efficient, identifying which genes to edit and how remains a significant challenge. To overcome this bottleneck, we use cutting-edge deep learning to accurately and efficiently identify high value genetic targets for crop gene-editing. Our approach draws inspiration from recent advancements in the drug discovery space, incorporating transformers, graphs &amp; causal-ML to build a best-in-class discovery platform for plant sciences.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">👥 Team</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Led by co-founders Dom (CTO) and Cecy (CEO), we are now a team of 10, including 2 ML engineers, 2 data engineers, 3 bioinformaticians. We primarily work together in person from our office in Spitalfields, London, 4 days per week but this role would be based in our new labs in Rothamsted research, Harpenden.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What we're looking for</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We are setting up lab capabilities to generate data for our ML foundation models and experimentally validate our gene ID platform. You will be our first experimental hire, in charge of running daily operations in the lab, establishing and validating required molecular assays and communicating with our computational scientists to design experiments. Your first priorities will be:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">establishing protoplast reporter assays to validate and train our ML models</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">designing experiments for target validation in planta</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Core responsibilities</span></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Establish and validate protoplast gene expression quantification assay</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experimental design of medium-throughput protoplast reporter assays to validate predictions by Biographica’s ML models</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experimental design and supervision of experiments to evaluate predicted trait improvements in planta</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Data collection to train/fine-tune Biographica’s ML models</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Clear communication with computational scientists about experimental validation and design</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mentoring, guidance and training of more junior lab scientists</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Coordinate with Rothamsted’s horticultural service to ensure healthy plant material for experiments</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Additional responsibilities</span></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Day-to-day maintenance of lab equipment (we will use Rothamsted services as much as possible to free up time for scientific work)</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Core competencies</span></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">PhD in Plant Sciences and ≥2 years of PostDoc or industry experience</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Expertise in establishing, validating and troubleshooting protoplast reporter assays</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Expertise in cloning</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Appreciation for the importance of robust experimental design, rigorous data collection and documentation</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ability to communicate across disciplines. We are a machine learning-first company with a team of machine learning engineers, data engineers, computational biologist and bioinformaticians and we all have to find a common language to work on our shared goal of rapid and accurate gene discovery for agricultural traits</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experience working with A. thaliana and Maize (or another monocot)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experience mentoring more junior lab scientists</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Full professional proficiency in English</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Nice to have competencies</span></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experience with ELNs</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experience with phenotyping</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experience with collection of large omics data sets (WGS, RNAseq)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experience with sequencing work (illumina, ONT, pacbio)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Experience with lab licences (e.g. DEFRA), phytosanitary certification and MTAs</span></li>
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Senior Experimental Scientist

<html><head></head><body><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">​At Biographica, we're always on the lookout for passionate and talented individuals who resonate with our mission and values. While we may not have a specific role that matches your profile at this moment, we welcome you to submit a speculative application. By joining our talent pool, you'll be among the first to be considered when new opportunities arise that align with your skills and aspirations.​</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>How it works&nbsp;</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Submit your CV and a note detailing your areas of interest and expertise. Our team will review your application and keep it on file. As soon as a relevant position becomes available, we'll reach out to you to discuss potential opportunities.​</span></div></body></html>

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