Senior Scientific Analyst - Cheminformatics AI/ML
Position Purpose: We are recruiting a skilled cheminformatics professional who can integrate chemistry, cheminformatics, pharmaceutics, and machine learning to enable in-depth analysis of synthetic chemistry, pharmaceutics, and related markets. This is a domain expert role that requires strong scientific background and is able to conduct in-depth cheminformatics-related analysis and data management.
ResponsibilitiesDuties and Responsibilities:
- Build, maintain, and enable efficient search and analytics across large chemical databases and datasets, including data ingestion, indexing, similarity analysis and high-performance search.
- Develop and apply agentic AI solutions for drug and pipeline analytics, including autonomous or human-in-the-loop workflows that integrate scientific literatures, data analysis, and computational tools.
- Stay updated with emerging trends in computational chemistry and machine learning as applied to pharmaceutical drug development and market analytics.
- Communicate and work effectively with technical leaders on complex, expert-level technical projects and matters
- Master’s degree is required, preferably a Ph.D. in chemistry, computational chemistry, cheminformatics, or related scientific or technical field, with 2+ years of experience in pharmaceutical or biotech setting preferred.
- Strong expertise in cheminformatics toolkits. Demonstrated experience managing and searching large chemical databases and datasets using scalable data engineering and high-performance search technologies.
- Experience applying machine learning and developing agentic AI systems in drug and pharmaceutical analysis.
- Adequate knowledge of the pharmaceutical and CRDMO (Contract Research Development and Manufacturing Organization) industry.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to work effectively with interdisciplinary groups.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in chemistry, computational chemistry, cheminformatics, or a related scientific or technical field
- Strong expertise in cheminformatics toolkits
- Experience managing and searching large chemical databases and datasets
- Experience with scalable data engineering and high-performance search technologies
- Experience applying machine learning to drug and pharmaceutical analysis
- Experience developing agentic AI systems
- Knowledge of the pharmaceutical and CRDMO industry
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively with interdisciplinary groups
- Ph.D. in chemistry, computational chemistry, cheminformatics, or a related scientific or technical field
- Two or more years of experience in a pharmaceutical or biotech setting
What We Do
WuXi Chemistry, a business division of WuXi AppTec, provides contract services for new drug development from discovery to commercial. Our unique CRDMO model offers an integrated solution combining traditional CRO (contract research organization), CDMO (contract development and manufacturing organization) and CMO (contract manufacturing organization) services under one roof. As a world leading chemistry service organization, WuXi Chemistry have over 24,000+ employees from our 16 research, development or manufacturing sites worldwide, serving over 2,000+ clients from top pharma to virtual biotech companies. Our services cover all categories for all synthetic molecular modalities, meeting any material requirement at any scale. Visit STA, CRDMO for small molecule drugs: https://stapharma.com Visit WuXi TIDES, CRDMO for oligonucleotide, peptide, and conjugates: https://tides.wuxiapptec.com/
