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Our ambition is to understand human biology in unprecedented ways, discovering therapies to treat some of life’s most devastating diseases. We leverage single-cell multi-omics from patient tissue, functional assays, and machine learning to drive disease understanding, from cause to cure.\nWe are scaling rapidly and building a team of exceptional individuals to push the boundaries of drug discovery. You will work in highly interdisciplinary teams where biology, computation, and engineering come together to solve complex problems that have not been solved before. Our state-of-the-art wet and dry labs in the heart of London are designed to accelerate this integration and translate insight into impact.\nWe are committed to building diverse and inclusive teams. Relation is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.\nBy joining Relation, you will help define how medicines are discovered and deliver meaningful impact for patients.\nThe opportunity\nRelation is offering an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Data Scientist to help build the next generation of generative and predictive models of cellular behaviour, with a focus on single cell multi-omics. 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You will contribute advanced data analysis and domain expertise to challenge ML models that aim to predict and explain cellular decision-making in disease.\nDay to day, you will\nProcess and QC paired single-cell RNA-seq and scATAC-seq at scale from thousands of perturbations across diverse cell types and biological contexts.\n\nDevelop and maintain Nextflow pipelines compatible with custom combinatorial indexing chemistries and including methods such as STARsolo, Alevin-fry, Chromap, and SnapATAC2.\n\nIntegrate scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq with extracellular proteomics and high-content imaging to build multimodal training datasets.\n\nManage data in memory-efficient formats (e.g. Zarr) for GPU-accelerated processing and model training at scale.\n\nPartner closely with wet lab scientists from screen and cohort design through to interpretation, so experiments are analytically tractable and pipelines maximise data value.\n\nContribute to the evaluation framework that determines whether ML models capture meaningful biology: design metrics, held-out benchmarks, and biological sanity checks.\n\nCollaborate closely with ML modellers to develop model architectures.\n\nPresent findings and methodologies to internal stakeholders and contribute to publications.\n\nProfessionally, you will have\nA PhD (or equivalent industry experience) in computational biology, bioinformatics, or a related quantitative field.\n\nDeep hands-on experience processing and analysing large-scale single-cell multiomics data, ideally including paired RNA + ATAC (10x Multiome or equivalent).\n\nProficiency with single-cell analysis toolkits (e.g. scverse ecosystem) and workflow management frameworks (Nextflow, Snakemake).\n\nExperience with arrayed CRISPR perturbation screen data, including well-level perturbation assignment via sample hashing, perturbation-specific QC (e.g. MOI estimation), and single-cell effect quantification.\n\nProficiency in Python and familiarity with high-performance computing environments.\n\nStrong communication skills to bridge experimental and ML teams across a fast-moving programme\nBonus Experience:\n\nExperience integrating multiple data modalities (transcriptomics, chromatin accessibility, imaging and proteomics) for joint analysis.\n\nExposure to foundation model development or perturbation prediction models.\n\nA background in statistical modelling and algorithm development.\n\nExperience working in interdisciplinary teams.\n\nPersonally, you\nAre comfortable working in a matrixed environment, balancing multiple stakeholders and contributing effectively across teams.\n\nTake ownership of your work, proactively seek opportunities to contribute, and enable others to do their best work.\n\nCommunicate openly and directly, give and receive feedback constructively, and handle challenging conversations with respect.\n\nActively seek out diverse perspectives, build strong working relationships, and contribute to shared goals across teams.\n\nEmbrace challenges with openness and resilience, set high standards for yourself, and strive to deliver meaningful outcomes.\n\nWorking Style & Culture at Relation\nAt Relation, we operate in a matrixed, interdisciplinary environment, where impact is driven through collaboration across scientific, technical, and operational domains. 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