Senior Expert Data Science (Make-on-Demand Cheminformatics & AI)
Date de publication :
29 avril 2025Taux d'activité :
100%- Lieu de travail :Basel (City)
Résumé de l'emploi
Novartis réinvente la médecine en repoussant les limites de la découverte de médicaments. Rejoignez une équipe dynamique qui collabore pour répondre à des besoins médicaux urgents.
Tâches
- Développer des stratégies informatiques pour accélérer la découverte.
- Contribuer à la création de bibliothèques de composés pour optimiser le processus.
- Collaborer avec des équipes interdisciplinaires pour des projets innovants.
Compétences
- Doctorat en chimoinformatique ou domaine connexe avec expérience.
- Expertise en chimie computationnelle et science des données.
- Excellentes compétences en communication scientifique et collaboration.
Est-ce utile ?
Summary
To extend our impact, we’re seeking a creative, passionate, and tenacious scientist to join the data science team in Discovery Sciences (DSc) at Novartis Biomedical Research (BR). If you want to make a difference in the field of early drug discovery and want to join our dynamic and collaborative team, we encourage you to apply today.
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Champion Make-on-Demand (MoD) workflows and apply and develop computational strategies and workflows that accelerate hit finding activities
- Develop synthon based search strategies to allow teams to leverage ever increasing virtual spaces without having to rely on brute force searches of fully enumerated spaces
- Contribute to the design of internal Low Molecular Weight (LMW) and DNA Encoded libraries in order to fully harness the potential of MoD during hit finding.
- Leverage core expertise in cheminformatics, computational chemistry, and data science, to generate and navigate virtual chemical spaces, build predictive models, collaborate with project teams to accelerate early drug discovery projects.
Minimum Requirements:
- PhD with a cheminformatics, computational chemistry, or physics focus; or alternatively, a degree in a related subject (e.g. chemistry, chemical biology, computer science, or data science) in combination with the equivalent experience applying computational tools in life science / drug discovery setting.
- Hands on experience with cheminformatic workflows, and familiarity with descriptors and machine learning (ML) in the context of cheminformatics.
- Excellent scientific communication, including the ability to present complex data science concepts in digestible terms to diverse scientific audiences while leveraging innovative data visualization.
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team (i.e., biologists, chemists, data scientists), with proactive and results-oriented communication skills. Dedication to promoting mutual respect, empathy, and positivity in diverse professional settings.
- Expertise working in Linux high performance computing and cloud environments.
- Expertise in Python scientific stacks, familiarity with best practices in computational reproducible research (version control, testing, documentation).
Nice to have:
- Familiarity with structure-based and ligand-based approaches
- Experience with some of the following: ligand protein docking, generative chemistry, deep learning, ligand protein cofolding
- Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Experience or familiarity with organic synthesis
- Experience designing libraries of small molecules
- Experience using synthons and transformations to generate virtual spaces, or to interrogate virtual spaces
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