Sr. Scientist, Custom Automation and Data Science in Discovery Chemistry High-Throughput Experimentation

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Scientist to join our High-Throughput Experimentation organization within Rahway Discovery Chemistry (RYDC), located in Rahway, NJ.

Our research laboratories are focused on the discovery and development of world-changing therapeutics. Co-located with the corporate headquarters, our multi-disciplinary research site offers cutting edge technology and resources to explore the most promising science combined with our company’s world-class R&D expertise for inventing medicines. Our state-of-the-art facility drives all aspects of drug discovery, development, manufacture, and commercialization of small molecules, biologics, and vaccines. 

At our company, we are inspired by the belief that a research-driven enterprise dedicated to scientific excellence can create medicines and vaccines that save and improve lives. Every employee is building on our proud legacy of scientific breakthrough to impact the lives of patients, which relies on the integrity, creativity, humility, and scientific acumen of our team. We are creating a diverse organization that is inspired by invention and founded on a culture of respect and collaboration. At our research laboratories, you will have the opportunity to expand your knowledge and skills through collaboration with talented and dedicated colleagues while advancing your career.

Job Description:

Our Company is currently seeking an exceptional Chemist for a Senior Scientist position within the High-Throughput Experimentation (HTE) group in the Rahway Discovery Chemistry Department located in Rahway, New Jersey. The successful candidate will join a highly collaborative cross-functional team of scientists whose mission is to fundamentally change the way new technologies and the data impact how medicines are invented. Our High-Throughput Experimentation organization is responsible for the invention of new technologies utilizing cutting edge robotics and data science to advance synthetic capabilities across multiple modalities including macrocyclic peptides, target protein degraders and small molecules. The successful candidate will join collaborative, multidisciplinary discovery teams across our company’s sites to invent novel workflows to accelerate the discovery of medicines by merging the frontiers of data science, machine learning, synthetic chemistry, HTE and automation.

In this Senior Scientist role, the chosen candidate will leverage robotically enabled high-throughput experimentation capabilities to help advance our modality agnostic pipeline. This includes designing new robotic work processes, utilizing data science to accelerate and optimally design experiments, and leveraging data in real time to drive decision-making. As such, the chosen candidate should have a robust background in high-throughput experimentation, automation, cheminformatics, and data science, with an emphasis on utilizing data to (semi)-autonomously drive decisions.

Responsibilities include …