Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) Scientist

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Work Location: Long Island, NY

Position Summary

As a computational chemist, you will be proactively involved in projects by exhibiting excellent communication and problem-solving skills to demonstrate support to the client's projects. In addition, you will interact closely with team members, applying CADD methods to the hit-to-lead and lead optimization projects, presenting the modeling results to the client and communicating with the client on the design idea and strategies. You will also be responsible for the application of computational chemistry methods to identify, optimize and develop drug candidates.

Education & Experience

• PhD/MS in computer-aided drug design (CADD) or computational chemistry or closely related discipline
• Expertise in computational methods: molecular docking, homology modeling, structure- and ligand-based design, conformational analysis, molecular dynamics, QSAR, binding free energy calculations
• Excellent oral communication and written skills
• Proficient with two or more of the modeling and cheminformatics software such as Schrodinger, MOE, Discovery Studio, Pipeline Pilot, Rosetta
• Familiarity with at least one programming language (Python, R, C, C++ …)
• Experience in AI technologies in drug discovery is a plus
• Team oriented with demonstrated collaborative behavior
• Ability to multi-task and project prioritization

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