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Senior Principal Scientist, Applied AI & Agentic Systems for Small-Molecule Drug Discovery

Boston, MA💼 Full-time💰 $168,000–$168,000🗓 2026-08-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Scientific leader driving the strategic application of AI and agentic systems to accelerate small-molecule drug discovery and extend capabilities to protein therapeutics.

Role type

Senior Principal Scientist, Applied AI & Agentic Systems

Builds

AI co-scientists and AI-enabled scientific workflows for compound design, knowledge synthesis, and decision-making

Domain

Biotechnology / Computational Drug Design / AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

computational chemistry, cheminformatics, small-molecule drug discovery, machine learning, large language models, agentic systems, scientific evaluation frameworks, AI governance

Preferred skills

protein therapeutics, biologics, emerging therapeutic modalities

Technologies

large language models, agentic systems, retrieval-augmented workflows

Responsibilities

Drive strategic application of AI across the DMTA cycle; define scientific evaluation frameworks and validation strategies; establish operational guardrails for model usage and data access; translate scientific needs into scalable AI capabilities; lead adoption of AI-enabled workflows across discovery research

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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