Senior Principal Scientist - BioAI in City of Westminster

Hybrid Working – 3 days on site, London – 6 month rolling project, Inside IR35. emagine is a high‑end professional services consultancy specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector. We power progress, solve challenges, and deliver real results through tailored high‑end consulting services and solutions.

As a Senior Principal Scientist you will play a pivotal role in driving drug target discovery for cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) by leveraging cutting‑edge computational biology, systems biology, and AI approaches. Your work will directly influence early pipeline projects and shape the future of data‑driven drug discovery within a globally distributed BioAI organisation.

• Lead high‑value AI‑driven and data analysis projects supporting drug target discovery.
• Translate ultra‑high throughput in‑vitro screening results into viable drug target candidates.
• Apply systems biology approaches to analyse high‑dimensional datasets, including cell painting and omics data.
• Stay at the forefront of emerging AI methodologies and continuously enhance internal evaluation frameworks.
• Build and maintain strong strategic relationships with scientific and business stakeholders to ensure alignment with drug discovery strategies.
• Contribute to the systems biology strategy, including its design, execution, and long‑term evolution.

• Master's degree in cellular biology, molecular biology, computational biology, or a related field.
• Extensive experience within a pharmaceutical, biotech, or tech‑bio environment.
• Proven scientific leadership experience, particularly in drug target identification and discovery.
• Strong expertise in AI and systems biology applied to biological data analysis.
• Proficiency in Python and/or R for data curation, analysis, and interpretation.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to present complex findings clearly to diverse audiences.
• PhD in a relevant scientific discipline (preferred).
• Hands‑on experience in cardiometabolic disease‑relevant cellular or molecular biology.

The ideal consultants share our values – Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine – and are aligned with our ways of working. As your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation, building a broad base of experience for an outstanding career.

We pride ourselves on offering a supportive culture rooted in our values and driven by our purpose, promoting inclusion, collaboration, well‑being, and learning & development. Our hybrid working model provides increased agility and flexibility, while we invest in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development. Autonomy to take ownership of projects, transparent performance and career management experiences are all part of the package.

Our consultants deliver successful engagements, tackling sophisticated business, change and technology challenges with meticulous analysis and decision‑making. They build and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C‑suite while partnering across our practices to bring the best of emagine to clients through opportunity identification, qualification and solution development.

Interested? At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team. If you are ready to embrace the challenge and explore your full potential, contact our internal recruitment team.

emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin.