Senior Computational Drug Designer
Senior Computational Drug Designer
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Job Description
Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Impact Youll Make
Recursion is seeking a (Senior) Computational Drug Designer to join our Computational Drug Design Group in either Oxford (UK) London (UK) Toronto (CA) or Salt Lake City (USA).As an integral member of a multidisciplinary design team you will collaborate closely with medicinal chemists biologists ADME and engineers to drive drug discovery using Recursions cuttingedge Design Platform. Leveraging AI/ML computational chemistry and drug design tools you will help invent new medicines with unprecedented productivity.
Beyond handson project work youll have opportunities to present your findings to external partners attend industryleading conferences and play a role in shaping the future of computational drug discovery. We provide a supportive coachingdriven environment to help you grow learn and make a lasting impact.
In this role you will:
- Design potential drug molecules using cuttingedge AI/ML molecular dynamics synthesisaware generative design and active learning.
- Build and execute generative workflows collaborating with medicinal chemists and biologists to refine and prioritize designs.
- Advance Recursions technology platform by sharing insights and innovations with researchers and engineers.
- Lead technical discussions on molecular designs with external collaborators.
- Present your work to peers senior stakeholders and external partners.
- Stay at the forefront of computational drug design by engaging with the latest scientific advances.
The Team Youll Join
You will become part of a worldclass team of scientists dedicated to revolutionizing drug discovery through Recursions industryleading small molecule design platform. Our team works at the cutting edge of innovation tackling structurally enabled targets nonstructurally enabled targets and phenomicsderived projects across a diverse range of therapeutic areas. By integrating our proprietary AIdriven technology with advanced computational biophysics we accelerate the identification and optimization of lead series with unprecedented speed efficiency and precision. Join us in shaping the future of medicine and bringing transformative therapies to patients faster than ever before.
The Experience Youll Need
Essential skills:
- PhD or equivalent professional expertise in cheminformatics computational chemistry computational biophysics bioinformatics or a related field at the intersection of computing and drug discovery.
- Deep understanding of medicinal chemistry principles and their application in drug discovery.
- Handson experience in computational chemistry and molecular modeling to explore structureactivity relationships.
- Practical data science skills for analyzing large datasets and applying multiparameter optimization techniques.
- Passion for continuous learning and expanding your computational drug discovery knowledge.
- Excellent interpersonal verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively engage both internal teams and external stakeholders.
Desirable skills:
- Strong interest in AI/ML and its application to drug discovery.
- Knowledge of pharmacokinetics and ADME data interpretation.
- Experience applying machine learning techniques for predictive modeling and generative molecule design.
- Proficiency in Python OpenEye toolkits RDKit and other relevant computational chemistry tools.
Working Location:
This position is based at our office located in either Oxford (UK) London (UK) Toronto (CA) or Salt Lake City (USA). Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50 of their time in the office.
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The Values We Hope You Share:
- We act boldly with integrity. We are unconstrained in our thinking take calculated risks and push boundaries but never at the expense of ethics science or trust.
- We care deeply and engage directly. Caring means holding a deep sense of responsibility and respect showing up speaking honestly and taking action.
- We learn actively and adapt rapidly. Progress comes from doing. We experiment test and refine embracing iteration over perfection.
- We move with urgency because patients are waiting. Speed isnt about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
- We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability we enable trust and autonomyleaders take accountability for decisive action and teams own outcomes together.
- We are One Recursion. True crossfunctional collaboration is about trust clarity humility and impact. Through sharing we can be greater than the sum of our individual capabilities.
Our values underpin the employee experience at Recursion. They are the character and personality of the company demonstrated through how we communicate support one another spend our time make decisions and celebrate collectively.
More About Recursion
Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the worlds largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machinelearning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly and massive computational scale owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world Recursion is uniting technology biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.
Recursion is headquartered inSalt Lake City where it is a founding member ofBioHive the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London Toronto Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more atwww.Recursion or connect onX(formerly Twitter) andLinkedIn.
Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability veteran status or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal state local or provincial human rights legislation.
Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursions internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.
Employment Type
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