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 online by mid-2027. Our customers range from foundation model labs to global pharma.

We are hiring an AI engineering lead as the first engineering hire on the intelligence software product. Substrate runs two AI products on top of operational data today, with more to come. You will write much of the first production code, help shape the architecture, and influence how the team that comes after you is built.

About Substrate

Substrate is spinning out of Automata, the UK lab automation company that has built the workcell platform our labs run on. Our four co-founders are Mostafa ElSayed (CEO and founde...