Senior Scientist, Structural Biology & Target Druggability

Schrödinger; New York (NY); On-site; USD 135,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Healthcare (dental/vision)

401k

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Flexible work schedule

Parental leave

Catered meals

Paid vacation

Job summary

Schrödinger seeks a Senior or Principal Scientist in Structural Biology (Target Druggability and Structure-Based Drug Design) to join us in our mission to transform the discovery of therapeutics and materials!

You’ll partner with multidisciplinary teams to define target tractability strategies, identify novel binding sites, and design experimental campaigns to solve structures that unlock challenging targets, bridging computation and experiment.

Qualifications

• PhD (or equivalent industrial experience) in Structural Biology, Biophysics, Computational Chemistry, or related discipline.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in structure-based drug design with practical experience in cryptic/transient binding site identification and pocket druggability assessment.
• Working fluency in modern computational structural biology methods such as AI-based structure prediction and MD-based sampling.
• Direct experience designing, executing, and interpreting cryo-EM and/or X-ray crystallography experiments.

Responsibilities

• Define druggability hypotheses for difficult-to-drug targets by integrating structural, computational, biophysical, and pharmacological evidence.
• Apply and advance computational methods, including AI/ML approaches, for structure prediction and refinement, pocket identification and conformational sampling.
• Translate insights into actionable hypotheses for medicinal chemistry and biology teams and propose experiments to test them.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging methods into practical workflows.
• Present tractability assessments to project teams and leadership with clear rationale.
• Lead experimental structural biology efforts and manage external CROs or internal labs to enable drug discovery.
• Contribute to Schrödinger's platform strategy by feeding tractability-driven requirements back to software development.

Skills

PhD in Structural Biology

Structure-based drug design

AI/ML for structure prediction

Cryo-EM / X-ray crystallography

Platform familiarity (Schrödinger)

Education

PhD in Structural Biology

Tools

Schrödinger platform (Glide, FEP+, BioLuminate, Prime)

Cryo-EM

X-ray crystallography

Job description

Schrödinger seeks a Senior or Principal Scientist in Structural Biology (Target Druggability and Structure-Based Drug Design) to join us in our mission to transform the discovery of therapeutics and materials!

You’ll partner with multidisciplinary teams to define target tractability strategies, identify novel binding sites, and design experimental campaigns to solve structures that unlock challenging targets, bridging computation and experiment.