Associate Scientist, Postdoctoral Fellow – AI/ML and Agentic AI for Drug Discovery
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Modeling & Informatics
Position Overview
Responsibilities include but are not limited to
- Design, execute, and interpret research that benchmarks standard AI/ML methods across internal and external drug discovery datasets.
- Develop and drive an independent research project to design and evaluate AI agent frameworks for drug discovery modeling.
- Refine agentic AI workflows to improve transparency, robustness, and decision-making.
- Analyze complex drug discovery datasets using appropriate statistical and machine learning tools.
- Present research findings at internal scientific forums, external conferences, and in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Education Minimum Requirement
- Must currently hold a PhD
OR
- Receive a Ph.D. no later than spring 2027
- Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Computational Chemistry, Cheminformatics, Chemical or Biomedical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related discipline.
Required Experience and Skills
- Demonstrated expertise in machine learning, cheminformatics, or computational chemistry.
- Strong record of scientific achievement, as evidenced by peer-reviewed publications and presentations.
- Hands-on experience building, training, and rigorously evaluating machine learning models in Python.
- Experience designing, conducting, and interpreting computational experiments, including model benchmarking.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including statistical analysis and data interpretation.
- Ability to work independently while also thriving in a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Preferred Experience and Skills
- Experience with large language models and agentic AI (e.g., LangGraph, LangChain).
- Proficiency with modern ML frameworks and experiment-tracking tools (e.g., PyTorch, MLflow).
- Experience applying graph neural networks, chemical foundation models, or other modern deep learning approaches to molecular or drug discovery data.
- Experience with predictive modeling in drug discovery.
- Experience with cheminformatics tools (e.g., RDKit).
- Experience developing or improving agentic AI systems through feedback, adaptation, or alignment techniques.
- Demonstrated creativity and scientific independence in developing and executing research projects.
The salary range for this role is: $82,000-$92,000
This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.
The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days.
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