Senior Principal Scientist, CADD
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Job Summary
At Johnson & Johnsonwe believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented treated and curedwhere treatments are smarter and less invasive andsolutions are our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow and profoundly impact health for more at
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Data Analytics & Computational SciencesJob Sub Function:
Data ScienceJob Category:
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Beerse Antwerp BelgiumJob Description:
Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.
Join us in developing treatments finding cures and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.
The Therapeutics Discovery organization within J&J IM is continuing to build scientific expertise in modeling screening pharmacology and chemistry to partner closely with therapeutic area scientists to develop groundbreaking new medicines in the areas of Immunology Neuroscience and Oncology. The In Silico Discovery (ISD) department in Therapeutics Discovery is seeking a highly experienced scientist to bring their expertise to exciting and novel areas of computational drug design.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the design and optimization of synthetic therapeutic molecules by integrating structural data simulations ML/generative models and assay results to help pose hypotheses and address project challenges and timelines.
Apply and develop predictive models to gain SAR insights on- and off-target activity physicochemical properties PK/PD and synthetic feasibility to impact compound progression.
Collaborate with medicinal chemists biologists and DMPK scientists to ensure computational outputs directly inform experimental plans and progression decisions.
Collaborate with computational technology development and platform teams to help prioritize validate and improve emerging computational technologies and novel workflows to ultimately impact molecular design and efficiencies in discovery portfolio programs.
Represent ISD in internal governance forums and external collaborations; evaluate and effectively communicate the impact of computational work on their own project to other team members as well as senior leadership.
Qualifications:
A Ph.D. and postdoctoral training in computational chemistry or a related field followed by at least 6-12 years of experience applying computational modeling in a pharmaceutical/biotech industrial setting with a track record of key contributions to compound progression and invention in discovery projects is required.
Strong understanding of drug discovery process is required. Broad understanding & critical real-world views into a broad arsenal of in silico approaches & tools including physics-based and AI/ML for drug discovery project applications is strongly preferred.
Experience with emerging therapeutic modalities such as synthetic peptides & targeted protein degraders/induced proximity modalities (PROTACs RIPTACs and molecular glues) is strongly preferred.
Experience with CADD applications in multiple therapeutic areas and target classes is strongly preferred.
A strong background in structure-based drug design (SBDD) is required. Expertise in one or several of the following areas is strongly preferred: free energy/ MD approaches (e.g. FEP) cheminformatics toolbox applications data science and ML frameworks (e.g. scikit-learn pytorch) scientific programming etc.
Experience working in a cross-functional environment mentoring scientists influencing decisions integrating multiple disciplines and resolving conflicts is required. Experience working with global teams is strongly preferred.
Familiarity with multiple commercial computational drug discovery packages (examples include Maestro/Schrodinger MOE/Chemical Computing Group and/or OpenEye tools) is required
Experience scripting computational workflows for project specific problems in KNIME and Python notebooks is preferred. Experience using LiveDesign & Spotfire for design and analysis or related platforms is strongly preferred.
Strong record of creative scientific contributions including peer reviewed publications patent applications and presentations at major conferences is preferred.
Located in Beerse Belgium and requires up to 10% travel internationally. Hybrid role.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Computer Aided Drug DesignRequired Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Machine Learning
- Python
- Data Science
- AI
- R
- Research Experience
- Sensors
- Drug Discovery
- Research & Development
- Natural Language Processing
- Data Analysis Skills
- Toxicology Experience
About Company
About Johnson & Johnson A t Johnson & Johnson, we believe good health is the foundation of vibrant lives, thriving communities and forward progress. That’s why for more than 130 years, we have aimed to keep people well at every age and every stage of life. Today, as the world’s larges ... View more
