what makes the cut
An employer is Pinned or Active if it is EU-native or EU-relocatable and hiring into software/infra seats (not wet-lab, not pure research). Nobody filters on Rust — it is the edge you bring to the infra / data-plane / pipeline-engine seat, not a checkbox. Traffic-light key: 🟢 strong EU fit, actively hiring · 🟡 real but situational (narrow, early, or stack-drift) · 🔴 US-only, turnaround, or stale — lives in the archive.
Companies half of the catalogue. For
live openings at $160k+ with direct apply links (US + London frontier labs), see
Live Openings →. For the
roles these employers hire — archetypes, salary bands, application strategy — see
the Positions Catalogue →. To meet them in person:
Conferences →.
★ Pinned — hot right now (6)
Strong EU fit, actively hiring, on-target seats, re-verified 2026-07-25. Where you point first.
★ Seqera (Nextflow) · 🇪🇸 Barcelona + remote Spain
★ Isomorphic Labs · 🇬🇧 London (hybrid 3d)
🟢 Best-capitalized name anywhere —
$2.1B Series B (May 2026, Thrive/Alphabet), 8+ London SWE/infra/data/bioinformatics reqs, first clinical trials end-2026. Promoted from Active. Live:
SWE, Data Services →
★ BioNTech · 🇩🇪 Mainz (Blue Card)
🟢 On-target data/bioinformatics-SWE JDs, capital redirected to oncology (data-heavy). Note: May-2026 cuts (~1,860) hit
Covid manufacturing, not R&D data. Live:
Data Engineer, Mainz →
★ AstraZeneca · 🇬🇧 Cambridge (Skilled Worker)
★ Genomics England · 🇬🇧 London / Cambridge / Leeds (public)
🟢 National-scale genomic data platform; live Data/Platform Engineer reqs, £175m gov boost (2025).
🟡 UK right-to-work required (public/NHS, not remote-EU). Live:
Data Engineer →
★ Cradle · 🇳🇱 Amsterdam / 🇨🇭 Zurich
Active — keep set (8)
Real EU doors but situational — narrow, early, in a turnaround, or a stack that drifts off systems. Re-verified 2026-07-25; check the live req before banking on it.
Oxford Nanopore · 🇬🇧 Oxford / Cambridge
🟡 Demoted from Pinned — real-time nanopore stack (Dorado/MinKNOW/EPI2ME) still rewards a systems brain, but two 2026 restructurings, ~60 layoffs (~5%), trimmed guidance, CEO stepping down end-2026. Selective hiring.
DNAnexus · 🇨🇿 Prague hub
🟡 Demoted from Pinned — well-capitalized ($666M), real Prague EU hub, but every SWE/bioinformatics req reads "expired" as of July 2026; only non-eng Prague roles open. Watch for the reqs to reopen.
Genedata (Danaher) · 🇨🇭 Basel / 🇩🇪 Munich
🟢 Safest employer here (Danaher-owned = lowest funding risk); deep EU eng on R&D data platforms.
🟡 Java monoculture — least Rust-adjacent. Live:
Java Full-Stack, Munich →
Novartis data42 · 🇨🇭 Basel
🟢 Cleanest EU-native pharma data platform; live FDE (CHF 129.5k–240.5k), insulated from Novartis's US-corporate reorg.
🟡 Palantir Foundry pipelines, not low-level systems. Live:
Forward Deployed Engineer, Basel →
InstaDeep · 🇬🇧 London / 🇫🇷 Paris
Genomics plc · 🇬🇧 Oxford / London / Cambridge
🟢 Actively hiring UK-hybrid infra/security + genetics-analysis eng (R/Python/Nextflow); ~$142M raised, Vertex collab through 2026. Live:
Cybersecurity Engineer →
Lifebit · REM 🇪🇺 (London / Lisbon, remote UK/GR/PT)
🟡 The thinnest lane — shipping in 2026 (Airlock v2, Security Tower) but no live EU SWE req confirmable and no funding since the 2021 $60M Series B. Verify momentum before banking on it.
New this cycle (2026-07-26)
Genestack · REM 🇪🇺 (Spain-remote / Belgrade)
🟢 Cleanest EU-remote data-plane fit. Petabytes of genomics/proteomics on ClickHouse + Solr + K8s;
Staff Backend Engineer live, Spain-remote confirmed. Live:
Staff Backend Eng →
SeqOne Genomics · Montpellier, FR (hybrid)
🟢 Production NGS pipelines FASTQ→VCF, distributed job scheduling; $23M Series B, merged Congenica Sep'25 (expect UK+remote wave). Live:
Backend Bioinformatics Eng →
SOPHiA GENETICS · Rolle CH / Bidart FR (hybrid)
🟢 EU-native clinical-genomics platform, NYSE-listed scale; backend on Azure/AKS/Terraform (Java/Micronaut — systems depth transfers). Live:
backend roles →
Our Future Health · London (onsite, relocation)
🟢 Population-scale health + genetic data ingest/transform, Snowflake pipelines (UK's largest health-research programme). Live:
data eng →
Open Targets / Wellcome Sanger · Hinxton, UK (onsite, relocation)
🟢 Ingestion/curation of genetics + genomics data in the EMBL-EBI ecosystem. Also EMBL-EBI Workday (Bioinformatics Data Engineer, Hinxton hybrid). Live:
jobs →
Sano Genetics · Cambridge, UK (relocation)
🟡 Genomics + EMR + clinical pipelines; VP Data & Eng just posted → pipeline build underway, early-engineer window. Live:
careers →
MiLaboratories / Platforma.bio · REM 🇪🇺
🟡 TB-scale immune-repertoire genomics, HPC+cloud hybrid, small greenfield team. Cold-approach.
platforma.bio →
Fresh spinouts to cold-approach (founding-eng): CubaseBio (Stockholm, 3D spatial), Zetta Genomics (Cambridge, distributed genomic DB), Biomodal (Cambridge, $98M), Resolve Biosciences (Monheim DE), Quotient Therapeutics (Cambridge, Flagship), Base Genomics (Oxford). See the founding-engineer tier →.
Moved to archive this cycle: Benchling 🔴 — still hiring SWE/infra/AI, but every engineering req is now
San Francisco onsite/hybrid; the Zurich office lists only a non-eng Technical Account Manager. No EU-friendly SWE path in July 2026 — see the
archive →.