Senior Computational Peptide Designer & MD Scientist

vVARDIS; Michigan; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

vVARDIS, a Swiss-based oral health company, operates a Michigan dental materials research laboratory and is building an in-house computational capability to accelerate peptide design. As a Computational Research Scientist, you will be a founding member guiding the molecular-simulation component of a closed-loop platform.

You will work at the interface of computation and bench, collaborating daily with experimental teams to design a tight design–simulate–synthesize–test loop and help lay the

Qualifications

• PhD in computational chemistry, biophysics, chemical engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on biomolecular molecular dynamics with peer-reviewed publications.
• Direct experience simulating peptide or protein self-assembly is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and run the molecular-simulation pipeline that proposes and ranks novel oligopeptide sequences.
• Develop force-field parameterizations and simulation protocols as needed.
• Curate and steward a structured dataset linking peptide sequence to measured properties; document successes and failures.
• Contribute to platform architecture and integration of ML approaches for multi-objective sequence optimization.
• Communicate methods and findings clearly to a multidisciplinary team and mentor junior scientists.

Job description

vVARDIS, a Swiss-based oral health company, operates a Michigan dental materials research laboratory and is building an in-house computational capability to accelerate peptide design. As a Computational Research Scientist, you will be a founding member guiding the molecular-simulation component of a closed-loop platform.

You will work at the interface of computation and bench, collaborating daily with experimental teams to design a tight design–simulate–synthesize–test loop and help lay the