Cheminformatics Senior Research Scientist

Cheminformatics Senior Research Scientist

Requirements

• Ph.D. (or equivalent degree) in engineering, science or math and 2-5 years of productive, relevant post-doctoral employment experience, or
• Master’s Degree (or equivalent degree) in similar fields and 5+ years of productive, relevant employment experience, or
• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent degree) in similar fields and 8+ years of productive, relevant employment experience
• Typically requires 5 years experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience
• Very strong expertise in cheminformatics including clustering, chemical fingerprints, SMARTS, chemical reactions, etc.
• Very strong programming skills, ideally in Python, with demonstrated 1+ years of experience and/or active contributions to open-source projects
• Proficiency with at least one cheminformatics framework (OEToolkit and/or RDKit preferred)
• Experience with relational databases and SQL
• Proficiency in Linux environment and experience with version control practices and tools
• Experience in the use of machine learning methods and toolkits (such as scikit-learn) as applied to chemical or biological data
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• A team-oriented growth mindset that welcomes feedback from others and supports other team members; a positive attitude that enthusiastically tackles and overcomes challenges

Responsibilities

• Enhance and maintain our virtual screening platform and associated screening databases
• Actively contribute to the development of our core cheminformatics tools and libraries
• Develop and apply cheminformatics techniques to improve hit identification and hit-to-lead processes
• Contribute to small molecule predictive modelling activities across programs
• Identify, evaluate and adopt new cheminformatics and AI/ML technology and software from various sources

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.