AI Formulation Scientist – Skin Health & Drug Delivery

Panther Life Sciences Corporation; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 33,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-person company events

Fully stocked kitchen

In-office lunch twice a week

Job summary

Panther Life Sciences Corporation in Pittsburgh invites an AI and machine learning researcher with a strong chemistry foundation for a 6-month co-op starting January 2027. You will work directly with the R&D team to build models that predict how formulations, active ingredients and patches behave, with real ownership of scope and results.

This hands-on role emphasizes model development, problem scoping, tool selection, and presenting findings to leadership, with opportunities to influence a

Qualifications

• Advanced degree or BS with 2+ years of equivalent industry experience.
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Responsibilities

• Build ML models predicting formulation properties like stability and dissolution.
• Apply physics-based and generative models of transport in skin.
• Work with small datasets and use synthetic data to augment real lab data.
• Benchmark open-source models and tools for R&D use.
• Collaborate with formulation and lab teams in Pittsburgh to turn data into experiments.

Skills

Chemistry foundation

Machine learning experience

Python

Molecular dynamics

Generative models

Data-scarce problems

Education

Advanced degree in chemical engineering, materials science, pharmaceutical sciences or computational chemistry

Tools

Molecular dynamics tools

Cheminformatics tools

Molecular modeling tools

Python scientific stack

Job description

Panther Life Sciences Corporation in Pittsburgh invites an AI and machine learning researcher with a strong chemistry foundation for a 6-month co-op starting January 2027. You will work directly with the R&D team to build models that predict how formulations, active ingredients and patches behave, with real ownership of scope and results.

This hands-on role emphasizes model development, problem scoping, tool selection, and presenting findings to leadership, with opportunities to influence a