VidaVinci, Inc. ยท 2 weeks ago
Senior Scientist/Principal Scientist, Cheminformatics on Experimental Screening
Watertown, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
4+ years expVidaVinci, Inc. is an innovative drug discovery company focused on developing next-generation therapeutics. They are seeking an experienced cheminformatics scientist to lead the computational aspects of experimental screening and support the drug discovery process.
Biotechnology
Hiring Manager
Gisella Soderberg, PHR
Responsibilities
Build, maintain, and improve data processing pipelines for phage display (NGS readouts) and APMS screening (mass spectrometry readouts) and other screening technologies as we add them
Design and apply analysis methods on screening results, collaborating with medicinal chemistry colleagues for follow up compound selection
Design new combinatorial libraries, in collaboration with medicinal and analytical chemists, to further enhance our hit-finding capabilities
Build and apply tools for the analysis of our drug discovery data, including supporting SAR exploration and synthesizing experimental data and computational predictions to support decision making
Qualification
Required
B.S. in Computational Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Materials Science, or Computer Science (with a cheminformatic focus) or a related field with 6+ years of Industrial experience, or Ph.D. (in the same fields) with 4+ years of Industrial experience
Experience with developing and applying analysis of experimental library screening with either next gen sequencing or mass spectrometry readouts
Expertise in at least one cheminformatics platforms (e.g., RDKit, OpenEye) to run analyses such as clustering, chemical space diversity, featurization, and simple model building
Excellent Python skills
Proven ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment, communicate effectively, and translate computational insights into actionable hypotheses
Passion for solving complex problems and contributing to cutting-edge drug discovery
Preferred
Experience with cloud-based computational infrastructure, particularly Google Cloud
Company
VidaVinci, Inc.
VidaVinci, Inc is a venture-backed, privately held biotech company on a mission to pioneer "a new modality to end all modalities".
11-50 employees
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