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Principal Scientist, Applied Computational Chemistry

Employer
Recursion
Location
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Start date
Mar 19, 2023

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Discipline
Science/R&D, Biotechnology, Chemistry
Required Education
Doctorate/PHD/MD
Position Type
Full time

Job Details

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

Building a map of human biology is uncharted territory. Come help us pave the way.

Nine years ago, we were staining plates by hand. Today, we've created a library of more than one billion cellular images on the basis of a radically different approach to biotech. This is a bold approach that we believe will reinvent drug discovery and development. 

If you draw a line from nine years ago to today, you’ll see our trajectory and understand that Recursion is a very different kind of company. You cannot make these kinds of leaps simply by adding incubators, fluorescent microscopes, and robots to automate processes at scale. Our drug discovery strategies are map and data-driven rather than target-driven, revealing destinations you might never have considered. As a Principal Scientist at Recursion, you’ll be in a position to directly accelerate the timeline of getting drugs into the hands of patients who need them.

The Impact You’ll Make

You will engage in early drug discovery projects from launch to preclinical development and help our efforts in advancing new therapeutics to patients. You will be at the forefront of developing new approaches that reimagine small molecule drug discovery leveraging Recursion’s extensive data capabilities. As a Principal Scientist, you will:

  • Build - In partnership with medicinal chemists, biologists, data scientists, and others, you will build projects across therapeutic models designed to translate phenotypic screening hits to preclinical assets with quality and speed
  • Lead - You will lead cross-functional computational and medicinal chemistry efforts, as part of a nimble, highly efficient chemistry team
  • Collaborate - Work in a cross-functional matrix organization with biologists, chemists, data scientists, and engineers with a passion for drug discovery
  • Communicate - Independently prepare impactful presentations for senior leaders and partners to allow for informed data-based decision-making
  • Achieve - Understand the critical path and provide high-quality results

The Team You’ll Join 

Reporting to our Director of Applied Chemistry, you will be a leader within our discovery organization, partnering with others to build and advance the portfolio of preclinical small molecule NCE and repurposed assets. You will use your depth and breadth of understanding of computational and medicinal chemistry to lead molecular modeling efforts that inform programs and find synergistic opportunities to capitalize on Recursion’s AI-enabled high throughput phenotypic screening platform. You will work in a highly matrixed organization to advance molecules from hit identification to lead series and ultimately to candidate status. Your skills will be of high value as you work cross-functionally internally, with external stakeholders and contract chemistry FTEs.

The Experience You’ll Need

  • Ph.D. in computational chemistry, biophysics, medicinal chemistry, engineering, or equivalent
  • 5+ years as a computational chemistry program lead in drug discovery/development within a  biotech or pharma setting
  • Strong record of delivery as demonstrated by publications, presentations, patents, or other evidence of creative application of computational approaches to problems of pharmaceutical interest
  • Proficiency in general molecular modeling techniques (docking, molecular simulation, homology modeling, quantum mechanics, pharmacophore and shape screening, ligand- and structure-based design)
  • Experience providing project teams with computational strategies to inform, influence, and prioritize designs for potency/selectivity and improve ADME/Tox endpoints
  • Experience in contributing to the identification, development, validation, and implementation of innovative computational approaches that improve research productivity and success

Preferred Experience and Skills:

  • Experience with Linux and HPC environments.
  • Proficiency with modeling software packages (e.g. Maestro, LiveDesign, MOE, OpenEye, Rosetta, etc.).
  • Proficiency in scientific scripting and programming languages (e.g. Bash, Python).

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The Values That We Hope You Share:

  • We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
  • We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
  • We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover. 
  • Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
  • We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.

Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here.

More About Recursion 

Central to our mission is the Recursion Operating System, or Recursion OS, that combines an advanced infrastructure layer to generate what we believe is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing proprietary biological and chemical datasets and the Recursion Map, a suite of custom software, algorithms, and machine learning tools that we use to explore foundational biology unconstrained by human bias and navigate to new biological insights which may accelerate our programs. We are a biotechnology company scaling more like a technology company. Recursion is proudly headquartered in Salt Lake City. 

Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, local, or provincial human rights legislation. 

Company

Recursion is a clinical-stage biotechnology company decoding biology by integrating technological innovations across biology, chemistry, automation, data science and engineering to radically improve the lives of patients and industrialize drug discovery. Our team is working to solve some of the hardest, most meaningful problems facing human health today.

Recursion is proudly headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah with offices in Toronto, Montreal and Milpitas, California. We're working to solve some of the most meaningful problems facing human health today. Come do the most impactful work of your career at a company that prioritizes belonging, collaboration and career development.

Company info
Website
Phone
801-587-1629
Location
41 S. Rio Grande Street
Salt Lake City
Utah
84101
United States

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