Principal Scientist, Agentic Cheminformatics & Workflows

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Turnhout; On-site; EUR 104,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is seeking a Principal Scientist to lead agent-enabled discovery workflows, prototype scientific workflows, and enable adoption across discovery programs. This role focuses on translating complex scientific questions into actionable workflows and fostering collaboration across chemistry, biology, data science, and platform engineering.

The position may be located in Spring House, PA; Cambridge, MA; or Beerse, Belgium, with some travel.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent substantial experience in cheminformatics, computational chemistry, medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, or related discipline.
• Deep understanding of compound design, predictive models, and discovery decision-making across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the identification, design, prototyping, and validation of agent-enabled workflows across use cases or discovery areas.
• Establish the evidence, adoption model, and partnerships to advance concepts into reusable capabilities.
• Provide scientific and technical leadership across a portfolio of agentic prototypes.

Skills

Python programming

Workflow orchestration

AI-assisted development

Scientific leadership

Mentoring

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Travel up to 10%

Education

PhD in cheminformatics or related

Tools

Git version control

CI/CD

Bioactivity databases

Job description

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is seeking a Principal Scientist to lead agent-enabled discovery workflows, prototype scientific workflows, and enable adoption across discovery programs. This role focuses on translating complex scientific questions into actionable workflows and fostering collaboration across chemistry, biology, data science, and platform engineering.

The position may be located in Spring House, PA; Cambridge, MA; or Beerse, Belgium, with some travel.