Senior Scientist In Silico Discovery

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Job Function:
Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:
Chemical Research

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Toledo, Spain

Job Description:

We have two entry-level positions for talented computational Senior Scientists, Computer Aided Drug Design joining our cutting edge In Silico Discovery department within Therapeutics Discovery at J&J.

The positions require using computational methods in areas such as structure-based drug design, physics-based modeling, machine learning, co-folding and more, to identify hits, design molecules and drive our early drug discovery projects.

A particular focus for these positions is to contribute to virtual screening (VS), physics-based methods (e.g.

FEP) especially for VS, co-folding structure prediction and the increased overlap and use of these methods.

We are looking for people with teamwork and communication skills to engage in a matrix environment and across multi-disciplinary portfolio and technology teams.

Responsibilities of the Senior Scientists will include:



* Explore and develop workflows that lead to improvements for virtual screening and early hit-finding efforts.

Assess and recommend best practices on for instance the use of free energy methods or co-folding for VS


* Work with others to explore and develop best practices for the use of co-folding in many different computational workflows


* In the long term, and with the support of colleagues, identify emerging technologies and methods in structure-based, physics-based, or 3D AIML fields and test and introduce them into In Silico Discovery at J&J


* Work with the broader VS team to contribute to the databases, evaluating methods, best practice workflows, VS informatics platform and improving success rates


* Impact drug discovery projects by developing and executing clear computational strategies and workflows to design complex molecules and predict their properties using structure-based and machine learning methodologies


* Contribute your recommendations to drug discovery project teams consisting of medicinal chemists, disease biologists, structural biologists, etc.


* Play an important role in external collaborations and consortia in the key areas mentioned: physics-based, VS, co-folding etc.

Integrate collaboration deliverables internally


* In general, work positively and collaboratively across In...