Medicinal Chemist — Onsite AI-Driven Drug Design

Edison Scientific, Inc.; United States; Sur place; USD 150 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary and equity

Full healthcare coverage

Parental leave stipend

Mental health support

401(k) company matching

Wellness benefit

Lunch and dinner provided

Team off-sites

Résumé du poste

Edison Scientific, Inc. is seeking a Medicinal Chemist to join the Forward Deployed team, embedded with pharma partners to ensure AI-designed chemistry is credible, synthesizable, and actionable within drug discovery cycles.

You will design benchmarks, evaluate agent outputs, collaborate with client chemists, and help translate chemistry thinking into agent behavior, while working onsite with engineers and computational biologists.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in a relevant chemistry field and 5+ years of pharma/biotech experience.
• Lead optimization campaigns from hit identification through candidate nomination.
• Experience integrating ADMET and DMPK data into design decisions.
• Ability to travel domestically 20–40% of the time.

Responsabilités

• Improve AI agent performance to hit-to-lead chemistry tasks including SAR analysis, structure-based design, and synthetic feasibility analysis.
• Design benchmarks and acceptance criteria for chemistry focused agent workflows.
• Partner with medicinal chemists at client organizations to integrate AI agents into their discovery workflows.
• Serve as the chemistry expert on AI generated outputs, assessing structural soundness, flagging failure modes, and determining what’s actionable.
• Collaborate daily with Forward Deployed Engineers and Computational Biologists on each account.
• Support engagement scoping, success metrics, and technical evaluation with our go-to-market team members.

Formation

Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, or related field

Outils

RDKit

Schrödinger

MOE

Python

Description du poste

Edison Scientific, Inc. is seeking a Medicinal Chemist to join the Forward Deployed team, embedded with pharma partners to ensure AI-designed chemistry is credible, synthesizable, and actionable within drug discovery cycles.

You will design benchmarks, evaluate agent outputs, collaborate with client chemists, and help translate chemistry thinking into agent behavior, while working onsite with engineers and computational biologists.