Lead Scientist: AI-Driven Reactivity & Discovery

Initial Therapeutics, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Lilly in South San Francisco seeks a scientific leader to own the Chemical Reactivity Landscape initiative, building a predictive map of reaction outcomes and generating differentiated reactivity data. This hands‑on leadership role sits at the intersection of quantum chemistry, machine learning, high‑throughput experimentation, and laboratory automation.

You will set the modeling strategy across mechanistic, quantum chemical, statistical, and learned approaches; direct the synthetic core; and

Job description

Lilly in South San Francisco seeks a scientific leader to own the Chemical Reactivity Landscape initiative, building a predictive map of reaction outcomes and generating differentiated reactivity data. This hands‑on leadership role sits at the intersection of quantum chemistry, machine learning, high‑throughput experimentation, and laboratory automation.

You will set the modeling strategy across mechanistic, quantum chemical, statistical, and learned approaches; direct the synthetic core; and