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Chemistry Principal Scientist

Substrate Bio • London, UK

Salary

£67k – £67k

Posted

9 August 2026

Work mode

Full-time

Sponsor match

high

Skilled WorkerWorker (A rating)

Role overview

Substrate Bio is hiring a Chemistry Principal Scientist in London, a full-time scientific & qa role. The advertised salary is £67k – £67k. Substrate Bio holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the Skilled Worker route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.

The opportunity Substrate is building a network of fully autonomous wet labs, cloud-based data production facilities for AI biology, integrated with foundation models to become the critical infrastructure layer for AI-driven biological discovery. Our first node opens in King’s Cross, London, with several integrated workcells and two scientific verticals, protein science and functional genomics, online by mid-2027. Our customers range from foundation model labs to global pharma. We are hiring a …

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Visa sponsorship snapshot

Employer: Substrate Bio — confirmed licensed sponsor
Visa route: Skilled Worker
Advertised salary: £67k – £67k
How this salary compares: about 67% above the £40,000 median across 1,023 scientific & qa roles with published salaries on FindSponsorJobs
Location: London, UK · Full-time
Similar roles nearby: 64 other live scientific & qa roles in London — browse them
Posted: 9 August 2026
How we verify sponsors: employers are matched against the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors — read our methodology.

About this sector

Scientific and quality assurance roles span pharmaceutical, biotech, clinical research, and laboratory sectors. The UK life sciences industry actively recruits internationally for research scientists, QA managers, regulatory affairs specialists, and clinical trial coordinators, with many employers maintaining well-established sponsor licence operations.