Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.
Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
Oxford Nanopore’s sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere!
We are looking for a highly motivated Development scientist with good lab-based skills to join our Translational Development – Infection Team within Sample Tech. This role will be based at our labs in Norwich.

• Demonstrate high standards of experimental work, analytical skill, systematic problem-solving ability and a strong work ethic.
• Development and optimisation of preparation workflows.
• Development of biochemical and biophysical assays.
• Testing / optimising new components prior to release.
• Operation of our Nanopore range of sequencing devices and associated software.Data analysis (from basic data manipulation to more complex bioinformatic pipelines)