Life Sciences Research & Python Specialist (MSc/PhD)

About the role

Gramian Consultancy, a boutique consultancy for IT professional services and engineering talent solutions, is looking for life sciences researchers with strong, hands-on Python skills to contribute to projects evaluating and improving advanced AI systems. The role combines scientific research expertise with practical software skills to create, solve and review challenging problems across biology and related fields. It is remote, about 15 hours per week, with flexible hours and days.

Key responsibilities

• Create and solve scientifically rigorous problems in your area of specialization
• Develop reproducible Python-based analyses, models, simulations and data-processing workflows
• Analyse and interpret biological or biomedical datasets
• Review scientific solutions and Python code for accuracy, clarity, completeness and reproducibility
• Identify errors in scientific reasoning, methods, assumptions and code
• Validate research findings with statistical and computational techniques
• Document methods, assumptions and solutions clearly

Required profile

• Master's or PhD in a life sciences discipline such as Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Bioinformatics, Neuroscience, Genetics, Computational Biology or a related field
• Substantial research experience shown through publications, thesis work, computational projects or industry research
• Ability to write, understand, debug and validate Python code independently
• Experience with scientific or biological datasets and interpreting computational results
• Excellent written English

Required skills

• Strong practical Python programming, especially for scientific computing, data analysis, modelling or simulation
• Statistical and computational techniques for validating research

Paid by output, with payment per completed task; minimum submission requirements apply.