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Start Date: Negotiable

Salary: Competitive compensation package including share options, subject to experience

Location: We champion remote working and can accept applications from candidates residing anywhere we can legally employ them including: the UK, Spain, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands and Ireland. Candidates outside of the UK must be able to commit to occasional travel to UK London/Cambridge.


There are 10,000 known rare diseases that affect 300 million people across the globe, and 95% of them have no approved treatment.  We’re on a mission to change that. 

We are pioneering the next generation of drug discovery by applying frontier AI technology to accelerate the pace, increase the scale and improve the chance of success of rare disease treatment development in order to meet this huge unmet need and have unprecedented patient impact. 

Diversity and inclusion sits at the heart of our mission to help people with rare diseases, and we believe that attracting and empowering a diverse team is critical to achieving this goal. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and walks of life.

Below we have included the qualities that we feel are required for you to excel in this role; however we appreciate that people can apply transferable skills from all walks of life and experience. If you think you have what it takes, love our mission and resonate with our values but are worried you don't tick every box - we still want to hear from you and encourage you to apply!


Care for Rare - Rare disease patients are at the heart of what we do
Grow as individuals - We are learners always seeking to enhance our expertise
Win as a team - We strive to remain inclusive and diverse and we celebrate successes and lessons together
Innovate and deliver - our mission requires rapid innovation and calculated risks that won’t compromise our high standards 

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Can’t quite see the role you’re looking for? We’d still love to hear from you! 
Here at Healx we’re keen to offer the opportunity for people to share their details with us, with the view for us get in touch back when a relevant position comes up in the future! 
We’re always looking to grow our Product and Engineering team, and appreciate that new roles pop up at any time! We’ll keep your profile on our system and contact you if we think your experience could be suited to any future opportunity that might arise.
We anticipate we’ll be hiring across specialisms in the near future, including product management, user experience research & design, frontend, full-stack, backend, data and ops engineering, as well as machine learning & natural language processing scientists/engineers.
Please note, this is only for speculative approaches and regrettably, we cannot feedback on each application personally. 
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Healx’s Team 

Working at Healx
Healx works from a modern accessible office in the centre of Cambridge within easy reach of the train station. We offer a flexible, diverse and inclusive working environment that considers your individual needs and believes in maintaining a sustainable work-life balance. You will be welcomed by a team of colleagues with decades of accumulated experience in their areas of expertise, happy to help you develop your own skills in a highly collaborative environment and who are keen to provide guidance and support in your personal and career development plans.

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Thanks for showing an interest in Healx! Just to make you aware that Healx has a PSL in place which we review on an annual basis -  we don’t accept any speculative CVs from agencies, if you were to submit any candidates speculatively, it’ll be viewed as a gift.



Financial  - Competitive salary, stock options, generous employer pension contributions, life insurance, 
Personal Development and Growth - Personal learning and development budgets, regular PDP conversations and career support
Health and Wellbeing - Private medical insurance, 25 days holiday + bank holidays, mental health support, yoga and meditation 
Family Friendly - Flexible and remote working practices, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, enhanced shared parental leave, miscarriage and fertility leave
Working remotely - Access to Cambridge HQ or co-working hubs in Bristol, London and across the UK, home office set-up allowance, quarterly team days, bi-annual in-person team days

For more information about Healx and how we use your data please go to https://healx.io/privacy/

Start making a difference

Our mission is to achieve unprecedented rare disease impact by pioneering the next generation of drug discovery.

There are over 7,000 known rare diseases that affect 400 million people across the globe, but only 5% of those conditions have an approved treatment. By joining us you are helping build new treatments to tackle this huge unmet need.

 

Our people and culture

Our team is a diverse mix of expertise, experience and perspectives, but what unites us is our drive to make a positive difference to rare disease patients and their families.

We’re proud of our inclusive culture where individuals are encouraged to collaborate, lead and grow.

Our benefits

Remote and flexible working
Stock
options
Private medical insurance
Life
insurance
Generous pension contributions
Wellbeing
support
Enhanced
parental leave
Regular team socials

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