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Principal ML/AI Cheminformatics Scientist

United States - Connecticut - Groton💼 Full-time💰 $106,000–$106,000🗓 2026-06-12 → 2026-09-25

Core

Develop, deploy, and improve machine learning models for molecular property prediction to enable compound prioritization and ADME property prediction in small-molecule drug discovery.

Role type

Principal ML/AI Cheminformatics Scientist

Builds

Robust computational models, validated workflows, prioritized compound lists, and chemical libraries for hit-to-lead and lead optimization.

Domain

Pharmaceutical R&D, Cheminformatics, Drug Discovery

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

AI methods for medicinal chemistry, molecular representations, chemical fingerprints, generative models, transformer architectures, pretraining strategies, property prediction, virtual screening, ADMET modeling, Python, cheminformatics libraries (RDKit, OpenEye, DeepChem, InChI, SMILES/SMARTS)

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

RDKit, OpenEye, DeepChem, InChI, SMILES, SMARTS

Responsibilities

Develop and deliver robust AI-driven workflows and algorithms for drug discovery; Design and deploy innovative cheminformatics and AI workflows; Collaborate with medicinal chemists and biologists to integrate computational approaches; Monitor emerging advances in AI and cheminformatics; Develop novel algorithms tailored to proprietary datasets.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic adoption leadership

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