Application Scientist, Computational Chemistry

Your Role:

As a Senior Application and Discovery Scientist, you will join the product management team for our AI, Cheminformatics, and automation drug discovery products. You will play a crucial role in developing AI-enabled software and a robotics ecosystem for drug discovery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as a superuser of our AI/Cheminformatics software, providing expertise to medicinal chemists on drug design projects.
• Lead pre-sales activities, including product demonstrations, planning, training, and offering design guidance to engineering and external partners.
• Create scientific and marketing content to showcase our product's value to support sales and marketing efforts.
• Participate in customer onboarding, provide technical training, and ensure effective tool utilization post-implementation.
• Train internal stakeholders, including general sales and technical teams.
• Recommend product feature designs to the engineering team, address technical inquiries, and represent the product expertise.
• Engage in scientific projects with customers, using our software to drive drug discovery results, aiming for publications.
• Leverage networking opportunities to stay updated on industry trends, build trust in our technology, and identify potential sales opportunities.

Physical Attributes:

• Expect approximately 20­-30% travel domestically and/or internationally.

Who You Are:

Minimum Qualifications:

• PhD (or MS) in computational chemistry, medicinal chemistry, cheminformatics, or a related field.
• At least 1 year of experience using cheminformatics/computational modeling tools for drug discovery.
• At least 1 year of experience in a customer-facing role.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration and customer engagement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA is a plus.
• Experience with demos and training of cheminformatics tools or chemistry software solutions.
• In-depth understanding of small molecule drug discovery processes.
• Comfortable in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment.
• Self-driven, results-oriented leader with a collaborative working style.