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Senior Scientific Analyst - Cheminformatics AI/MLWuXi AppTec
Senior Scientific Analyst - Cheminformatics AI/ML
United StatesRemote
AI Summary
Builds and maintains scalable search and analytics over large chemical databases and develops agentic AI workflows for drug and pipeline analytics. Applies cheminformatics and machine learning to pharmaceutical and CRDMO market analysis.
About this role
Overview
Senior Scientific Analyst - Cheminformatics AI/ML
Position Purpose: We are recruiting a skilled cheminformatics professional who can integrate chemistry, cheminformatics, pharmaceutics, and machine learning to enable in-depth analysis of synthetic chemistry, pharmaceutics, and related markets. This is a domain expert role that requires strong scientific background and is able to conduct in-depth cheminformatics-related analysis and data management.
Responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Build, maintain, and enable efficient search and analytics across large chemical databases and datasets, including data ingestion, indexing, similarity analysis and high-performance search.
- Develop and apply agentic AI solutions for drug and pipeline analytics, including autonomous or human-in-the-loop workflows that integrate scientific literatures, data analysis, and computational tools.
- Stay updated with emerging trends in computational chemistry and machine learning as applied to pharmaceutical drug development and market analytics.
- Communicate and work effectively with technical leaders on complex, expert-level technical projects and matters
Qualifications
- Master’s degree is required, preferably a Ph.D. in chemistry, computational chemistry, cheminformatics, or related scientific or technical field, with 2+ years of experience in pharmaceutical or biotech setting preferred.
- Strong expertise in cheminformatics toolkits. Demonstrated experience managing and searching large chemical databases and datasets using scalable data engineering and high-performance search technologies.
- Experience applying machine learning and developing agentic AI systems in drug and pharmaceutical analysis.
- Adequate knowledge of the pharmaceutical and CRDMO (Contract Research Development and Manufacturing Organization) industry.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to work effectively with interdisciplinary groups.
Skills
Agentic AICheminformatics ToolkitsComputational ChemistryCRDMO Industry KnowledgeData EngineeringData IngestionHigh-performance SearchIndexingLarge Chemical DatabasesMachine LearningPharmaceutical Drug DevelopmentScientific Literature AnalysisSimilarity Analysis
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