• Job Description

  Req#: 4888340

  ROLE SUMMARY

  Pfizer Medicine Design focuses on small molecule drug discovery efforts in multiple disease areas. Our location in Cambridge, MA is at the center of biomedical innovation and facilitates interaction and collaboration with local universities and biotech companies. We are seeking a highly motivated computational chemist with experience in drug discovery to join our drug discovery research group. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and applying computational methods and workflows to support all aspects of small molecule drug discovery ranging from lead identification to candidate selection. You will work closely with computational and medicinal chemists and other scientists on project teams to discover medicines for Inflammation and Immunology and Anti-Infectives. You will also utilize your computational chemistry and scientific programming experience to address challenging drug discovery problems, thereby benefitting all Pfizer research areas. The candidate should have good communication and organizational skills and can work in a flexible, dynamic team environment. As an independent researcher and integral member of project teams, you will have opportunities to make numerous direct contributions to Pfizer's drug discovery efforts.

  ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

  The primary responsibilities of suitable candidates will be the support of drug discovery projects by developing and delivering timely, high-quality computational solutions and impacting project teams through understanding target-ligand binding, structure-based and ligand-based lead optimization, virtual screening, library design, and ADME in-silico modeling.

  • Participate on multiple interdisciplinary project teams and play a key role in compound design

  • Apply molecular modeling and dynamics, conformational analysis, homology modeling, and pharmacophore hypothesis generation to compound design

  • Design compound libraries and apply virtual screening to identify new lead matter

  • Use new and established AI/ML models to support and complement project team drug-design activities

  • Analyze potential drug targets to assess their druggability and determine the most promising approaches for finding small molecule hits

  BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  The position requires a Ph.D. in computational chemistry or a related discipline and 1+ years of experience related to computer-aided drug design. Advanced knowledge of computational chemistry principles and knowledge of how to apply these techniques to pharmaceutical research projects is desired. The candidate should have experience with a wide variety of commercial software, experience in computer scripting and programming, and significant experience using Linux/UNIX. The candidate should demonstrate the ability to work in a collaborative environment as exemplified by a strong publication record.

  PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  Preferred candidates will have expertise in one or more of these areas and be familiar with the other concepts:

  • Computational chemistry concepts and techniques (such as structure-based and ligand-based drug design; protein-ligand interactions, docking, and scoring; virtual screening; cheminformatics; QSAR and predictive modeling; homology modeling; molecular dynamics simulations; free energy perturbation methodologies; machine learning and generative chemistry for drug design; and application of quantum chemical calculations to drug discovery).

  • Standard computational chemistry software (such as the Schrodinger suite; CCG MOE; Pipeline Pilot; Gaussian; and AMBER)

  • Data science and machine learning algorithms and tools (e.g. Random Forest, Deep Neural Networks, Generative Chemistry)

  • Programming skills (e.g. Python and C/C++); familiarity with debugging and profiling tools; experience with using scientific, numeric, and chemistry libraries

  • Drug design, medicinal chemistry, and/or biochemistry.

  ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

  • Will report to the Head of Computational Chemistry, within the department responsible for Inflammation and Immunology and Anti-Infectives Medicinal Chemistry.

  • The candidate will be an integral part of project teams and work closely with medicinal chemistry designers, synthetic chemists, pharmacologists, in vivo biologists, structural biologists, and drug metabolism scientists.

  • The candidate will also have many opportunities to work with computational chemists working on other disease areas, machine learning experts, computational biologists, and scientific computing specialists.

  Other Job Details:

  • Eligiblefor Relocation Package: yes

  • Eligible for Employee Referral Bonus: yes

  Relocation support available

  
  

  PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

  Ability to perform mathematical calculations and ability to perform complex data analysis.

  
  
  
  

  
  

  Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

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