Senior Medicinal Chemist, Drug Discovery

About SandboxAQ

SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors.

We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders. 

At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact. 

About the Role

SandboxAQ’s AI Simulation team develops new drugs and materials using a spectrum of AI and physics-based computational solutions. Our AQBioSim group is looking for a senior medicinal chemist to join our Drug Discovery team. This person's responsibility will be to drive innovation by applying organic and medicinal chemistry expertise to drug discovery projects and address unmet medical needs. These skills will be leveraged within a seasoned, agile, and multi-disciplinary group, including drug hunters with an excellent track record in drug discovery, computational chemists, physicists, AI experts, and software engineers.

What You’ll Do

• Apply organic and medicinal chemistry strategies to address unmet drug discovery needs
• Apply your knowledge and track record of modern synthetic organic chemistry and medicinal chemistry principles to provide strategic input and technical direction
• Translate insights from drug discovery projects and work closely with the AI Sim computational chemistry and development teams to improve SandboxAQ's unique technology and Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) to deliver deep impact at scale
• Drive and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver scientific expertise and strategic direction in drug design problems. 
• Work in close collaboration with computational chemists, AI/ML experts, and cross-functional teams to prototype and scale cutting-edge, impactful drug design solutions.
• Responsible for chemistry strategic alignment and effective resource allocation, leading and managing several contract research organizations (CRO) and external chemistry partners to deliver high-quality data in a timely manner
• Lead and collaborate in the preparation of scientific proposals, patents, reports and scientific publications supporting new and existing programs
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