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Perceptic
AI operating system for drug discovery and clinical development
Last verified August 15, 2026 · Updated daily
What Perceptic is building
Drug discovery today is a handoff problem. A research team surfaces a candidate. The insight dies at the interface with the next team. The clinical group starts over with partial information. Decisions worth billions get made on incomplete pictures because the systems involved were never designed to communicate. Perceptic is the connective tissue: a shared AI intelligence layer that follows the drug, not the department. The platform has three components. Scout handles asset scouting, rapidly triaging external licensing candidates and competitive programs against a company's strategic objectives, compressing weeks of due diligence into hours. PercepticOS is the internal intelligence layer: it connects a pharma company's proprietary tools and data, lets scientists test hypotheses, and builds a persistent institutional knowledge base that does not vanish when a project ends. Atlas is the clinical data foundation, consolidating internal and external trial data for deeper analysis, and has achieved a 50-fold increase in clinical data extraction speed at production deployments. Every output traces back to its source. No hallucinations. Every claim auditable. The architecture is model-agnostic: customers bring their own data, hardware, and AI tools. Perceptic provides the operating system underneath.
Why this matters
The AI in drug discovery market stood at $1.72 billion in 2024 and is projected to surpass $8.5 billion by 2030. But the market has been building instruments, not infrastructure. Isomorphic Labs, Recursion, Insilico Medicine: all of them operate inside a single stage of the pipeline. Molecule design. Protein structure. Patient recruitment. Each is a better instrument for a specific step. None of them fixes the handoff. That is the problem Perceptic is solving, and it is the one that every pharma executive feels viscerally. A drug approved today took over a decade to develop and cost upwards of $2 billion. A significant portion of that cost is friction, not science. Insights disappearing between teams. Institutional knowledge evaporating between projects. Promising paths unexplored because the researchers did not know someone else had already ruled out a variant. As Flock told Fortune: "Too many critical drug development decisions still happen without a complete view of the evidence." No AI-discovered drug has yet completed human clinical trials and been approved. The scepticism is real and warranted. Perceptic's bet is that the bottleneck is not molecular intelligence. It is the operating system that connects molecular intelligence to the decision-making chain. If they are right, they are building the category's foundation rather than competing inside it.
Open roles at Perceptic
7 positions we're tracking. Roles are re-checked daily and removed when filled.
Software Engineer (Full Stack)
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Lead DevOps Engineer
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Product Manager
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Platform Engineer
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Product Designer
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Account Strategist
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Forward Deployed Scientist
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Hiring outlook
Very High. Seven roles live on the careers page, posted the same day as the stealth exit. The Londoner Post reported the capital is earmarked "primarily for engineering expansion and growing Perceptic's customer base." That is two separate mandates activated simultaneously.
Working at Perceptic
Perceptic: AI operating system for drug discovery and clinical development. Founded , currently <50 employees. What this means for you: broad remit, direct access to founders, and equity that still means something if the company works out.
Most Perceptic jobs are based in London.
Frequently asked questions
How many jobs does Perceptic have open?
Perceptic currently has 7 open roles, last verified May 2026.
Does Perceptic hire remotely?
All current Perceptic roles are based in London.
What roles is Perceptic hiring for?
Perceptic is hiring across Engineering, Product, Design, Other, Data. The most recent opening is Software Engineer (Full Stack).
How do I apply for a job at Perceptic?
Apply directly through the links above, or read our guide on how to actually get hired at Perceptic.
Where is Perceptic based?
Perceptic is headquartered in London, US.
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