Build the operating system for clinical research.
We're a small, deliberate team based in the UK building software for the regulated world. If you've worked in clinical research and wished the tooling were better, or you've shipped serious infrastructure and want to point that craft at a problem that actually matters — we want to talk.
What you can expect from working here.
We hire for taste and craft
Not for resume keywords. Show us the weirdest production system you debugged at 3 AM, the cleanest schema you've designed, the documentation you wish more codebases had.
Domain expertise pays a premium
If you've actually run a clinical trial, written a CSP or sat through an inspection — your input shapes the product roadmap. Not just bug reports.
We pay competitively in cash
Not in promises. Top-of-market UK / EU compensation, real equity, and a flat band structure we publish to every offer.
Async by default, deliberate in person
Remote-first across the UK and EU with quarterly in-person weeks. Long-form writing over Slack pings. Real focus blocks on calendars.
We ship to people who will notice
Our customers are sponsors, CROs and inspectors who will absolutely notice if the audit trail is off by a millisecond. The bar is high. So is the satisfaction.
Small team, no layers
Engineers talk to clinical leads who talk to participants who talk to GTM. No PM-engineering tickets game. No proxy decision-makers.
Currently hiring 6 roles.
We close roles when they fill rather than running long pipelines. If you see something below, apply now.
- ApplyEngineeringRemote (UK / EU)Full-time
Senior software engineer — runtime
Own significant chunks of SteadOS — the runtime that executes the canonical study model. You'll work on EDC ingestion, query workflows, and the agentic operators that triage at the speed of data.
- ApplyEngineeringRemote (UK / EU)Full-time
Senior software engineer — protocol modelling
Help shape SteadFlow's protocol authoring experience — forms, branching logic, amendment impact, and the canonical-spine APIs the rest of the platform depends on.
- ApplyEngineeringLondon / Remote UKFull-time
Staff platform engineer
Run the production platform for a clinical research system. Multi-region residency, observability, security telemetry and the operating discipline regulated environments expect.
- ApplyClinicalLondon / Remote UKFull-time
Clinical operations lead
You've run multi-country trials and you know exactly where today's tooling falls over. Join us to translate that into product priorities — and to onboard early partners onto Clinstead.
- ApplyDesignRemote (UK / EU)Full-time
Product designer — participant-facing
Lead design on SteadReach — eConsent, eCOA, eDiaries, televisits. We want SteadReach to feel like the best consumer health app participants have used, not a research afterthought.
- ApplyGo-to-marketLondon / HybridFull-time
Founding GTM lead
Build the early commercial motion: sponsor and CRO discovery, evidence packs, demo programmes. Equity-heavy founding role for someone who has sold serious software into clinical research.
Don't see a fit? Speculative applications go to jobs@clinstead.com. Especially keen to hear from clinical-operations leads, data managers, and biostatisticians who want to help shape product.
The package, in plain English.
We publish a level-band sheet to every offer so there's no ambiguity. The list below applies to UK full-time roles; EU equivalents are mapped at offer stage.
- Top-of-market salary, published band per level
- Real equity — we share the upside
- Private health insurance (UK / EU equivalent)
- Home-office stipend & top-spec hardware
- £3,000/yr learning budget
- Generous parental leave
- 30+ days holiday plus public
- Quarterly team weeks in London
Send the application you wish more places asked for.
We read short cover notes carefully. Tell us what you've shipped, what you'd want to ship at Clinstead, and what you'd need to do your best work.