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About the Role
Edison Scientific seeks a Computational Chemist for its Forward Deployed team, embedded with pharma and biotech partners. The role focuses on ensuring AI-generated chemistry is credible, synthesizable, and valuable for drug discovery teams by building benchmarks, evaluating outputs, and collaborating with medicinal chemists.
Responsibilities
- Improve AI agent performance for hit-to-lead chemistry tasks, including SAR analysis, structure-based design, and synthetic feasibility analysis.
- Design benchmarks and acceptance criteria for chemistry-focused agent workflows.
- Partner with medicinal chemists at client organizations to integrate AI agents into their discovery workflows.
- Serve as the chemistry expert on AI-generated outputs, assessing structural soundness, flagging failure modes, and determining actionable insights.
- Collaborate daily with Forward Deployed Engineers and Computational Biologists on each account.
- Support engagement scoping, success metrics, and technical evaluation with go-to-market team members.
Requirements
- Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, or a related field.
- 5+ years of industry experience, ideally within a pharma or biotech sponsor organization.
- Track record in lead optimization campaigns from hit identification through candidate nomination.
- Deep knowledge of cheminformatics tools such as RDKit, Schrödinger, or MOE.
- Experience integrating ADMET and DMPK data into design decisions.
- Ability to travel domestically 20-40% of the time.
Skills
- Python
- Cheminformatics tools (RDKit, Schrödinger, MOE)
- ADMET and DMPK data integration
- Lead optimization
- Structure-based design
- Synthetic feasibility analysis
- SAR analysis
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of industry experience
Education Level
- Ph.D.
Salary/Compensations
- $180K – $250K
- Offers Equity
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Full healthcare coverage (100% premium paid for employee and dependents)
- Yearly new parent stipend
- Fertility coverage through Carrot
- Mental health support through Rula
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Yearly employer-funded pet care stipend
- Commuter benefits (pre-tax transit and parking)
- 401(k) company matching
- $300 health and wellness benefit quarterly
- Daily lunch provided in office
- Dinner provided when working late
- Regular team off-sites and company events
About the Company
- Edison Scientific builds and deploys AI scientist agents to accelerate science and the development of new medicines.
- Ambitious team run by scientists and engineers from leading institutions across biology, physics, chemistry, and AI.
Equal Opportunity
- Edison Scientific is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.