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Principal Research Scientist I

AbbVie • Oxford, Oxfordshire

Salary

£56k – £56k

Posted

28 July 2026

Sponsor match

high

Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist WorkerWorker (A rating)

Role overview

AbbVie is hiring a Principal Research Scientist I in Oxford, a scientific & qa role. The advertised salary is £56k – £56k. AbbVie holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.

Job Description Role Focus: Novel Therapeutics Discovery – Functional Reprograming Team Lead Location: Oxford, UK At DJS-AbbVie, we are committed to advancing new therapeutics and translating novel immunological science into innovative R&D programmes. As a UK-based R&D hub within AbbVie Immunology, we combine the agility, scientific focus and entrepreneurial spirit of a specialist discovery team with the scale, resources and ambition of a global pharmaceutical company. Having already advanced a…

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Employer: AbbVie — confirmed licensed sponsor
Visa route: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker
Advertised salary: £56k – £56k
How this salary compares: about 38% above the £40,494 median across 994 scientific & qa roles with published salaries on FindSponsorJobs
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire
Similar roles nearby: 20 other live scientific & qa roles in Oxford — browse them
Posted: 28 July 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.