Agentic Cheminformatics Scientist — Scientific Workflows

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Beerse; Sur place; EUR 73 000 - 115 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Annual bonus

Vacation days

Parental leave

Résumé du poste

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine in Belgium is seeking a Senior Scientist to design, prototype, and validate agent-enabled discovery workflows in Cheminformatics. You will lead cross-functional teams across ISD/CADD, biology, and data science to deliver robust workflows and reusable capabilities for drug discovery.

The role emphasizes scientific ownership, collaboration with platform engineers, and delivering measurable value while maintaining global collaboration and international travel

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent substantial experience in cheminformatics, computational chemistry, medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of compound design and predictive models with the ability to connect scientific needs across disciplines within project or capability teams.
• Strong Python programming skills and experience developing automated workflows, pipelines, or scientific applications to explore scientific questions and create practical proof-of-concept solutions.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development approaches to build reliable scientific software or automated workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently in an emerging area, translate scientific needs into practical solutions, and collaborate effectively across scientific, data science, and technology teams.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 10% of the time.

Responsabilités

• Design scientifically meaningful use cases, reference datasets, and success criteria that enable rigorous evaluation.
• Translate complex scientific questions into well-defined workflows that make evidence, assumptions, decisions, and points requiring expert judgment explicit, and contribute reusable approaches where appropriate.
• Evaluate agent behavior and outputs for scientific validity, reproducibility, uncertainty, appropriate tool use, robustness across scenarios, and relevance to discovery decisions.
• Capture the scientific insights gained from early applications and use them to define which approaches merit further development and broader adoption.
• Develop and test agentic prototypes in realistic discovery settings, combining scientific expertise with relevant data, predictive models, computational or laboratory methods, and tools that agents can select and coordinate to address a scientific objective.
• Lead the scientific design, prototyping, and validation of assigned agent-enabled discovery workflows, and collaborate with data science and platform engineering teams from an early stage by contributing scientific requirements, evidence, and user feedback for production implementation, security, and sustained operation.

Connaissances

Python programming

AI-assisted development

Drug discovery knowledge

Independent work

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Formation

PhD in cheminformatics / computational chemistry / medicinal chemistry

Outils

Python

Airflow

Git

CI/CD

Description du poste

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine in Belgium is seeking a Senior Scientist to design, prototype, and validate agent-enabled discovery workflows in Cheminformatics. You will lead cross-functional teams across ISD/CADD, biology, and data science to deliver robust workflows and reusable capabilities for drug discovery.

The role emphasizes scientific ownership, collaboration with platform engineers, and delivering measurable value while maintaining global collaboration and international travel