Medicinal Chemist

PostEra is building a modern biopharma, using machine learning to accelerate medicinal chemistry, to develop cures for diseases, faster. We've raised $26M from top investors, secured a $68M NIH partnership to prevent pandemics, and established a $260M partnership with Pfizer. We also launched and help lead the world's largest open-science initiative to find a COVID antiviral; COVID Moonshot.

About the role

• We're looking for a medicinal chemist to drive our internal and partnered drug discovery projects
• We're also hoping you're excited about partnering with machine learning scientists and software developers to advance our computational platform for medicinal chemistry

Desired skills and experience

• 10 - 15 years of industry experience on medicinal chemistry projects
• A passion for solving complex design and synthesis problems in small molecule drug discovery
• Past experience in the lab doing synthetic chemistry, ideally as applied to drug discovery, or experience advancing medicinal chemistry projects with computational tools

Bonus

• Knowledge of computational tools used for library design and structure-based methods such as docking or FEP.
• Experience with programming in languages like Python. However, what's more important is a desire to improve your computational skills and combine them with an in-depth knowledge of chemistry.

Salary : 200k - 250k

Equity: 0.1% - 0.2%

Visa Sponsorship : Not at this time

Hiring Manager : Alpha Lee

Visit us at postera.ai