Senior Computational Research Scientist
Core
Lead computational research projects to discover novel small molecule modulators of targets relevant to pediatric disease using computer-aided drug design and virtual screens.
Role type
Senior IC computational research scientist (drug discovery)
Builds
Novel small molecule modulators for pediatric disease targets
Domain
Chemical biology and therapeutics / pediatric disease
Deliverable
production ML models | research
Required skills
molecular dynamics simulations, molecular docking, pharmacophore modeling, quantitative structure activity relationship modeling, chemical informatics, high performance computing, database mining, R, Python, Knime, RDKit, ChemProp
Preferred skills
open-source programming tools
Technologies
R, Python, Knime, RDKit, ChemProp
Responsibilities
Lead computationally focused scientific research projects with minimal supervision, Develop new computational methods, Identify, process, organize, interpret, review, and report relevant data, Direct data collection, Present research to colleagues and draft complex manuscripts, Train and oversee the work of others in computational research
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship