
Ignota Labs is an AI-driven drug turnaround company focused on rescuing promising but failing drugs that were abandoned due to safety issues. Their proprietary AI model, SAFEPATH, uses deep learning,…

Ignota Labs is an AI-driven drug turnaround company focused on rescuing promising but failing drugs that were abandoned due to safety issues. Their proprietary AI model, SAFEPATH, uses deep learning,…
What they do: Use AI (SAFEPATH) to diagnose and mitigate safety issues in previously failed or abandoned drug candidates
Headquarters: Cambridge, UK
Founded: 2021
Latest funding: USD 6.9M seed (announced 2025-02-26)
Team size (approx.): 22 employees
Drug safety remediation and redevelopment of abandoned or failed drug candidates
2021
Biotechnology Research
6900000
Seed round co‑led by Montage Ventures and AIX Ventures; participation from Modi Ventures, Blue Wire Capital, Gaingels
“Has institutional venture backing including Montage Ventures and AIX Ventures; participation from multiple specialized life-science investors”
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Ignota Labs is a multi-award-winning drug turnaround company tackling one of the industry’s biggest bottlenecks: drug safety. Through cutting-edge explainable AI, we identify and resolve toxicity issues in promising drug candidates, unlocking their potential to become safe, effective therapies.
At Ignota Labs, you’ll work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI, real-world drug development and business innovation. Our mission is ambitious, and we’re building a team of equally ambitious, experienced and forward-thinking experts who are excited by the opportunities recent innovations in AI and technology can bring. This is not just relevant for drug development but also for running an organisation in a more efficient way, allowing experts to automate the small, repetitive tasks and become 10 times more productive.
Ignota Labs are venture capital backed and have recently closed a substantial seed round with leading Silicon Valley investors.
As a Senior AI Engineer at Ignota Labs, you will design and build the agentic systems, LLM-powered tools, and cloud infrastructure that will help our scientists identify failed drugs and bring them safely to patients. Your systems will augment and assist human experts at all stages of our business, from identifying high-potential drug programmes to helping to validate new chemistry.
Joining Ignota Labs at this stage will give you the ability to have an outsized impact on our efforts to automate some of the knowledge work that goes into drug discovery and development. With each successfully rescued drug, you will have made a direct contribution to bringing medicines to patients who otherwise would not have had access to them.
Applied: The tools you build will directly enable research that has a tangible path to patient impact.
Multi-disciplinary: You’ll work closely with scientists, ML researchers, and engineers, gaining insight into the end-to-end drug discovery and development process.
Dynamic: Ignota is a fast-paced, startup environment — every week will bring new challenges and opportunities to learn.
Innovative: You’ll work with state-of-the-art AI models and services, deploying them in creative ways to solve complex, real-world R&D problems.
Mission-oriented: You want your engineering work to accelerate life-changing scientific research.
Fast learner: You can quickly absorb new technologies, APIs, and scientific concepts.
Collaborative: You work effectively with interdisciplinary teams, adapting your communication for technical and non-technical audiences.
Curious & versatile: You enjoy working across domains and connecting ideas between them.
What You’ll Bring
A strong candidate will have most of the following attributes:
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