Principal Scientist Molecular Informatics & Computational Platforms

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About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments finding cures and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at are reimagining drug discovery through the lens of agentic AIturning scientific expertise into composable intelligent workflows that accelerate every stage of the DMTA cycle. We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Principal Scientist to help lead this transformation by developing agentic-AI capabilities and computational platforms for In Silico Discovery (ISD).

The successful candidate will design and help implement computational platforms that serve as the foundation for agentic workflows bridging end-user scientists and platform engineering teams. They will help define how scientists interact with AI-driven tools set best practices for agentic development and upskill scientists across the department. This role collaborates closely with project and platform engineering teams to turn ISDs scientific tools into a trusted agentic AI discovery engine.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a key agentic-AI enablement leader for ISD: define best practices and help shape the departments agentic strategy.

• Expose computational science capabilities as agent-callable services and help build specialized domain agents in partnership with platform engineering and portfolio teams.

• Lead design and development of scientific platforms and workflowsincluding virtual screening active-learning triage and ADMET-ML scoringas reusable agent-ready components for hit identification and compound optimization.

• Advance small molecule informatics across the DMTA cycle guiding bench scientists in analysis and decision-making.

• Upskill ISD scientists in agentic-AI tools prompt engineering and AI-augmented research practices.

Required Qualifications

• PhD in Cheminformatics Computational Chemistry Chemical Engineering or a related field.

• Minimum of 3 years of industry experience with a proven track record of delivering end-to-end solutions from conceptualization to implementation.

• Hands-on experience with LLM-based tools for scientific workflows (e.g. Claude Code) including skill/prompt engineering and MCP or RAG/knowledge-base integration.

• Deep expertise in cheminformatics software (e.g. KNIME OpenEye RDKit) and programming languages (e.g. Python R) including familiarity with scientific computing and ML libraries (e.g. pandas scikit-learn PyTorch).

• Experience with SQL/Snowflake and modeling chemistry data (structures assay and screening data). Comfort with cloud-native and containerized deployment environments.

• Experience working in cross-functional teams and translating ideas from bench scientists to informatics solutions with excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

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