Institute Research Investigator Cheminformatics

EDUCATION: 

Required: Bachelor's degree in chemistry, physics, computer science, biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, or related field.

Preferred: PhD in one of the natural sciences or related field or Medical degree.

EXPERIENCE: 

Required:  Six years of relevant research experience.  With Master's degree, four years of required experience.  With a PhD in a natural science or Medical degree, no experience required.

Preferred:  Experience in a pharma or biotech company, or a strong publication record demonstrating the application of cheminformatics to problems of pharmaceutical interest.  Programming proficiency in a low-level language (eg. C/C++, Java) and scripting competency (eg. Python).  Excellent communication, writing, and organizational skills.  Experience with any of the following:

• creation, management, and usage of a relational database management system (RDBMS) in the context of chemical information
• chemistry-aware data visualization and analysis tools (eg. SpotFire, Vortex, DataWarrior)
• scientific workflow tools (eg. Pipeline Pilot, KNIME)
• scientific and machine learning libraries (eg. Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• building applications using cheminformatics toolkits (eg. RDKit, OpenEye)
• commercial computational chemistry software packages (eg. MOE, Schrodinger)
• cloud management (eg. AWS, Azure) and web technologies