At Cadence, solve drug discovery problems in the pharmaceutical industry by leveraging OpenEye’s Orion platform and scientific code base
Requirements
- Expertise in python and C++
- Professional development skills
- Development toolchain knowledge
- Deep expertise in cheminformatics toolkit programming
- Experience developing in a professional software environment including source control, continuous integration and continuous testing
- Experience using OEChem and RDKit to implement mission-critical professional projects
- Experience using AI-based code generation tools to prototype new functionality
Responsibilities
- Implement new algorithms of priority to customers based on literature or internal technical descriptions involving scientific uncertainty, hypothesis-testing and performance analysis.
- Use technical and aesthetic skills to maintain and expand chemical depiction and scientific display libraries including responsibility for understanding and properly representing chemical matter to a modern scientific standard.
- Help maintain twenty-five years of legacy C++ scientific code base.
- Explore an array of descriptor types and modeling methods to identify those most useful in explaining generated results.
- Development of cheminformatics and modeling workflows and associated infrastructure to support production-level ML featurization and tools.
Other
- PhD in chemistry, cheminformatics or computational chemistry or similar (or equivalent experience)
- 15+ years in the pharmaceutical, biotech or related industries (or equivalent experience)
- Strong desire to find practical solutions to challenging scientific and programming problems
- Demonstrated ability to work at a high level both as part of a team and independently
- Proven track record of solving complex scientific problems with elegant technical solutions
