A career with MilliporeSigma is an ongoing journey of discovery: our 60,300 people are shaping how the world lives, works and plays through next generation advancements in Healthcare, Life Science and Electronics. For more than 350 years and across the world we have passionately pursued our curiosity to find novel and vibrant ways of enhancing the lives of others. MilliporeSigma is a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

By unlocking the power of data AI for drug discovery (AIDD) has the potential to enable personalized medicine and change patient lives. An M-Ventures funded biotech start-up is poised to seize the opportunity at the intersection between the Healthcare and Life Science Divisions of Merck, KGaA Darmstadt, Germany. Our mandate is to think big and reach across teams to leverage the full capabilities of the organization. For more than 350 years and across the world we have passionately pursued our curiosity to find novel and vibrant ways of enhancing the lives of others.

Role and Responsibilities include:

Senior Research and Data Scientist in AI and ChemInformatics Solutions will be a key role in shaping up the AI-enabled Drug Discovery (AIDD) project that aims at the total drug discovery solution from design to delivery.

You will work closely with the reaction synthesis automation team to support the link between drug design and drug delivery. You will also work with other scientists to support them in building the key analysis and prediction modules used in SaaS-based drug design solutions employing artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) techniques as well as other algorithmic approaches.

You will be responsible for:

• Working with reaction and reaction procedure data to build reaction synthesis automation and optimization solutions
• Curating large chemical reaction datasets and building predictive synthesis models from them
• Building the computational chemistry engine for drug discovery purposed based on ML/AL and other procedural algorithms
• Stay up to date on the development in machine-driven drug discovery in publications to improve the existing products based on them
• Documenting data, data curation, and machine learning model-building processes
• Working closely with the product team to identify, capture, and supplement their needs in underlying ChemInformatics calculations
• Analyzing complex problems in AIDD and articulating solution ideas based on ChemInformatics and AI/ML approaches
• Following an agile development approach to build proofs-of-concept for testing out ideas and core modules, and communicate ideas with the solution team
  

Location: Remote; Greater Boston Area Preferred

Who You Are:

Minimum Qualifications:

• MS in chemistry, cheminformatics, Computer/Data Science or related area
• Minimum 3 years of direct work experience
• Practical programming experience in Python, Java, JavaScript, C++, etc.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Good understanding in organic synthesis, reaction mechanism, reaction core extraction, automated retro- and forward-synthesis, high-throughput experimentation, reaction optimization, and other advanced chemistry concepts
• Excellent working knowledge in ChemInformatics, computational chemistry, and drug-discovery process
• Familiarity with tools for data science, such as data analysis, data processing, statistics, AI/ML, etc., and be able to use those tools to create working PoC for demonstration purposes, which implies practical and in-depth programming skills in Python, Java, JavaScript, C++, etc.
• Experience building AI/ML models for SAR endpoints starting from raw data
• Familiar with the agile development process
• Be curious and innovative witha strong desire to revolutionize the drug-discovery process
• Be an excellent verbal and written communicator
• Work collaboratively cross functional global teams
  

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Job Requisition ID: 255927

Location: Burlington

Career Level: D - Professional (4-9 years)

Working time model: full-time

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