Cheminformatics Scientist - REMOTE

Proclinical seeking a Cheminformatics Scientist for a leading biotech company located in Cambridge, MA. This role has the option of being remote or onsite.

Must be eligible to work in the US.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop, integrate, and apply cheminformatics/computational tools and workflows to improve existing infrastructure and acquire or create needed ones
• Provide informatics and cheminformatics support to the functions within Chemical Sciences, drug discovery projects and new target development initiatives.
• Build and maintain infrastructure/data workflows to facilitate mining and integrating data from internal and external databases
• Design and apply state-of-the-art machine learning and cheminformatics algorithms for molecule generation, scoring and selection
• Collaborate closely with the computational chemistry group and other cross-functional teams including Research IT, MedChem, BioChem, Compound Management, etc.
• Communicate scientific results internally and externally via presentations and publications

Skills and Requirements:

• A PhD with 1+ years OR Master's degree with 4+ years post-graduate experience (industry preferred) in cheminformatics, computational chemistry, computer/data science, or related fields. Pay rate commensurate with experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with one or more programming, scripting, or querying languages (e.g. Python, R, Java, SQL/NoSQL, etc) and cheminformatics toolkits (such as RDKit, ChemAxon, DeepChem, OEChem, etc)
• Technical expertise in developing cheminformatics protocols using workflow tools - experience with KNIME and Schrödinger eco-system of computational software preferred
• Working experience with machine learning and deep learning architectures such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-Learn is a plus
• A basic knowledge of drug discovery processes, medicinal chemistry, chemical biology and DMPK is encouraged

If you are having difficulty in applying or if you have any questions, please contact Bodin Forsen at +(1) 617-830-1769 or b.forsen@proclinical.com.

Proclinical is a specialist employment agency and recruitment business, providing job opportunities within major pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies.

Proclinical Staffing is an equal opportunity employer.

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