Overview
In this role you lead a high‑impact, interdisciplinary programme aimed at accelerating personalised cancer vaccines through agentic AI, supercomputing and automated labs. You’ll shape scientific direction, drive AI-enabled science, and manage research teams within the UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing Project. You collaborate across AI, cancer biology, and lab automation to deliver strategic research outputs. This is a mission‑driven opportunity to scale frontier AI and autonomous lab technologies for NHS patients.
Pay / Benefits
- funded by ARIA
- salary £56,623 - £65,336, potential up to £73,296 p.a. (pro rata)
- pensionable Oxford weighting
- full‑time fixed term through 30 September 2030
- online application process
- opportunity to contribute to national programme
Responsibilities
- Lead an interdisciplinary research project and set scientific direction
- Provide specialist leadership across AI, agentic AI, computational biology and scientific software
- Oversee integration of AI Scientist with sovereign supercomputing and autonomous laboratory tech
- Manage research staff, resources, and funding applications
- Produce significant research outputs and foster cross‑institution collaborations
Key requirements
- PhD/DPhil with substantial post‑qualification research experience
- Recognised national reputation in AI, computational biology or AI‑enabled science
- Strong publication or technical research record
- Experience leading complex interdisciplinary projects and managing staff
- Demonstrable experience designing/building agentic AI systems or AI‑enabled scientific software
- Practical experience with frontier AI systems, open‑source models and research computing
- Knowledge or research experience in cancer biology, genomics or immunology
- leadership
- communication
- cross‑functional collaboration
- agentic AI systems
- frontier AI
- open‑source foundation models
Senior Researcher in Agentic AI for Cancer Vaccine Development employer: University of Oxford
The Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford is an exceptional employer, offering a collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment where finance professionals can thrive. With a commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, along with generous benefits such as 38 days of annual leave and a robust family leave scheme, employees are supported in both their professional and personal lives. This role not only provides the opportunity to influence strategic financial decisions within a world-renowned department but also fosters continuous growth and development in a vibrant academic community.
