Senior Python Engineer: Cheminformatics & Drug Discovery

EPAM Systems; Turkey; On-site; TRY 4,373,000 - 6,803,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continuous upskilling

Extra leave days

Referral bonuses

Competitive USD salary

Private health insurance

IT equipment

Job summary

EPAM Systems in Turkey seeks a Senior Python Engineer with Cheminformatics and Computational Chemistry expertise to advance drug discovery software. You will join our Life Sciences practice and build scalable tools that empower researchers worldwide.

Responsibilities include designing software for chemical data analysis, pipelines for molecular data, QSAR/SAR modeling, and integration with ChEMBL/PubChem. Proficiency in Python and RDKit is required; knowledge of ML in scientific contexts

Qualifications

• Strong Python development experience.
• Proven experience in Cheminformatics, Computational Chemistry, or Drug Discovery.
• Experience with QSAR/SAR models, virtual screening, or molecular modeling.
• Understanding of chemical structure representation and similarity search.
• Experience with chemical databases (e.g., ChEMBL, PubChem).
• Solid knowledge of data analysis and statistical modeling.
• Experience applying Machine Learning techniques in scientific contexts.
• Familiarity with cheminformatics tools such as RDKit.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software solutions for drug discovery and chemical data analysis.
• Build and maintain computational pipelines for processing molecular and experimental data.
• Implement algorithms for virtual screening, QSAR/SAR modeling, and molecular descriptor calculation.
• Work with chemical structure representations (SMILES, molecular graphs, fingerprints).
• Integrate and analyze data from chemical databases such as ChEMBL and PubChem.
• Apply machine learning techniques to chemical and biological datasets.
• Collaborate with scientists, researchers, and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Ensure code quality, scalability, and reproducibility of computational workflows.

Skills

Python development

Cheminformatics

Computational chemistry

Drug discovery

QSAR/SAR modeling

Machine learning in science

Data analysis

RDKit

Tools

RDKit

Job description

EPAM Systems in Turkey seeks a Senior Python Engineer with Cheminformatics and Computational Chemistry expertise to advance drug discovery software. You will join our Life Sciences practice and build scalable tools that empower researchers worldwide.

Responsibilities include designing software for chemical data analysis, pipelines for molecular data, QSAR/SAR modeling, and integration with ChEMBL/PubChem. Proficiency in Python and RDKit is required; knowledge of ML in scientific contexts