Senior Principal Scientist, Agentic AI for Drug Discovery

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (US); United States; Hybrid; USD 168.000 - 252.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Annual bonus

Equity awards

Zusammenfassung

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc is seeking a Senior Principal Scientist to lead development and deployment of agentic AI for drug discovery, with emphasis on small molecules and cheminformatics. This Boston-based, hybrid role requires 3 days on-site weekly.

You will collaborate across computational scientists and software engineers to deliver production-grade AI workflows, apply CI/CD and DevOps practices, and drive AI-enabled decision-making across discovery programs.

Qualifikationen

• PhD in Computational Chemistry, Cheminformatics, or related field.
• 8+ years in scientific software development for drug discovery.
• Experience deploying AI-enabled scientific products, platforms, or applications.
• Demonstrated success translating scientific opportunities into scalable AI capabilities with measurable impact.
• Significant cross-disciplinary experience across discovery, computational sciences, data science, and engineering.

Aufgaben

• Translate scientific requirements into agentic AI solutions that autonomously reason, plan, and execute complex tasks.
• Build, test, and deploy AI-enabled solutions that support drug discovery across small molecules and proteins.
• Collaborate with computational scientists, software engineers, and cross-functional project teams to deliver scalable AI solutions.
• Apply software engineering, DevOps, and compliance best practices to deliver production-grade AI systems.
• Design and implement testing, evaluation, and validation strategies for agentic AI systems.
• Contribute to innovation efforts that realize value from Agentic AI and Generative AI technologies.
• Stay current with emerging agentic AI patterns and prototype new capabilities to evaluate their scientific impact.

Kenntnisse

Agentic AI

Python

CI/CD

DevOps

Cheminformatics

Small molecules

Machine learning

Communication

Team collaboration

Software development

Ausbildung

PhD in Computational Chemistry

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Jobbeschreibung

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc is seeking a Senior Principal Scientist to lead development and deployment of agentic AI for drug discovery, with emphasis on small molecules and cheminformatics. This Boston-based, hybrid role requires 3 days on-site weekly.

You will collaborate across computational scientists and software engineers to deliver production-grade AI workflows, apply CI/CD and DevOps practices, and drive AI-enabled decision-making across discovery programs.