Scientist, Chemistry

Job description

COMPANY: Octant is pioneering a new generation of precision medicines by combining synthetic biology, chemistry, and AI/ML to tackle complex cellular mechanisms driving human disease. We are a small molecule therapeutics company scaling drug discovery to unlock therapies for genetically defined and historically intractable diseases. JOB DESCRIPTION: Octant is seeking a driven and curious Scientist to join the OpenADMET team. OpenADMET’s mission is to build open predictive models of safety and toxicity for small molecules to improve humanity’s ability to more reliably, cheaply, and effectively treat disease. At a high level, you’ll play a hands-on role in leveraging Octant’s Navigator platform to synthesize and analyze novel small molecules that modulate disease-relevant cellular mechanisms. Specifically, you will support the OpenADMET initiative at Octant by building libraries targeting the “avoidome” to generate high quality data to fuel machine learning model development. You will also expand our platform chemistry capabilities by pioneering novel synthetic and analytical methods. Finally, you will leverage your platform expertise to further Octant’s drug discovery efforts. This...