Senior Cheminformatics Scientist | Hybrid Work & Impact

Placements24; Noord-Kaap; Híbrido; ZAR 900.000 - 1.500.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Hybrid work model

Health and dental insurance

Professional development opportunities

Access to computational tools

Descripción de la vacante

Placements24 invites applications for a Senior Cheminformatics Scientist in Kimberley, Northern Cape. The role focuses on applying computational methods to drug discovery, building pipelines, and managing large chemical datasets with RDKit and Open Babel.

The candidate will collaborate with medicinal chemists and biologists, applying ML techniques and data analytics to predict properties and accelerate candidate optimization in a hybrid research setting.

Formación

• Master's or Ph.D. in Cheminformatics, Computational Chemistry, Computer Science, or related quantitative field.
• Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in cheminformatics, with a focus on drug discovery.
• Strong programming skills in Python, with experience in cheminformatics libraries (e.g., RDKit).
• Proficiency in data analysis, statistical methods, and machine learning techniques relevant to chemical data.
• Experience with chemical databases and data management principles.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and apply cheminformatics methods for virtual screening, library design, and property prediction.
• Analyze large chemical datasets to identify SAR and SPR.
• Design, build, and maintain databases and workflows for chemical and experimental data.
• Collaborate with medicinal chemists, biologists, and computational chemists on drug discovery projects.
• Implement and utilize cheminformatics toolkits (e.g., RDKit, Open Babel) and visualization software.
• Stay current with advancements in cheminformatics and drug discovery.
• Present findings to project teams and stakeholders.
• Contribute to strategic development of cheminformatics capabilities.

Conocimientos

Python programming

Data analysis

Machine learning

Educación

Master's or Ph.D. in Cheminformatics/Computational Chemistry/CS

Herramientas

RDKit

Open Babel

Descripción del empleo

Placements24 invites applications for a Senior Cheminformatics Scientist in Kimberley, Northern Cape. The role focuses on applying computational methods to drug discovery, building pipelines, and managing large chemical datasets with RDKit and Open Babel.

The candidate will collaborate with medicinal chemists and biologists, applying ML techniques and data analytics to predict properties and accelerate candidate optimization in a hybrid research setting.