Computational Chemist, Senior Scientist II / Principal Scientist I

Job description

We’re seeking a Computational Chemist to join us in our mission to improve human health and quality of life through the development, distribution, and application of advanced computational methods! Our drug discovery group of over 60 scientists includes designers, modelers, computational chemists, medicinal chemists, crystallographers, biochemists, and biologists with experience working on all common target classes and therapeutic areas. The group is supported by more than 100 software developers and engineers, as well as a large scale computer infrastructure. Four of the programs we’ve worked on in the past seven years have progressed into the clinic; two are still progressing through trials and two have been approved by the FDA. Who will love this job: - A structure-based drug designer who has experience in two of the following molecular modeling areas: virtual ligand screening, computationally-driven lead optimization, machine learning, molecular dynamics, quantum mechanics, cheminformatics, ADMET/QSPR - An excellent communicator who’s been exposed to one or more other disciplines of relevance to drug discovery, such as synthetic organic chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, form...