About the role

• We’re looking for an experienced medicinal chemist with a passion for solving complex design and synthesis problems in small molecule drug discovery, who is also excited about applying machine learning tools to accelerate compound design and synthesis.
• Contribute to and lead drug discovery project teams from hit ID through drug candidate nomination.
• Manage a team of CRO synthetic chemists.
• Work closely with machine learning scientists and software engineers to advance our computational platforms.
• Be willing to travel up to 10% annually.

Desired skills and experience

• PhD in organic or medicinal chemistry with at least 5 years medicinal chemistry industry experience; or corresponding B.Sc. or M.Sc. with at least 10 years industry experience.
• A track record of creative problem solving, leading to impactful contributions on drug discovery projects.
• Experience applying computational tools for singleton and library design.
• Experience interpreting and applying in vitro and in vivo biology, ADME/PK, and safety data to advance medicinal chemistry programs.
• Adept at navigating and influencing a multi-disciplinary matrix environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, oral and written.
• Past experience in the lab doing synthetic chemistry, ideally as applied to drug discovery.
• Experience working with CRO partners.

Bonus

• Experience leading multi-disciplinary drug discovery project teams.
• Experience with programming and Unix. Most importantly, we seek applicants who desire to improve their computational skills and combine them with an in depth knowledge of chemistry.