Drug Discovery Scientist & Engineer

Mirror Physics•New York City, NY

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Mirror is an NYC-based startup building the AI stack for modern drug discovery. We develop agents that give scientists the leverage to explore, test, and advance new medicines faster and at lower cost. Our platform focuses on bridging the gap between frontier model capabilities and the practical challenges faced by biologists and chemists across the preclinical pipeline to dramatically accelerate scientists’ daily work, without sacrificing transparency, control, or data security. By compounding advancements in agent performance, efficiency, and reliability, we’re paving the way to transforming therapeutics development and unlocking a new era of human health.

Requirements

Multiple years of hands-on preclinical development experience in biotechnology or pharmaceuticals.
Deep expertise in one or more areas of drug discovery, together with a strong working understanding of the broader therapeutics development pipeline and how cross-functional programs are planned, evaluated, and advanced.
An engineering mindset and foundational computational and software development skills, with familiarity with modern AI systems.
A record of learning unfamiliar scientific and technical domains quickly and turning new knowledge into practical decisions.
The ability to explain complex ideas clearly to scientific, technical, and commercial audiences.
Comfort working directly with customers and participating in product and commercial conversations.
Curiosity, intellectual honesty, strong ownership, and the ability to move quickly without compromising rigor.

Responsibilities

Translate real preclinical workflows and scientific judgment into requirements for agent behavior, product features, tool integrations, and evaluations.
Work hands-on with engineering to prototype, test, diagnose, and improve agents across drug discovery tasks.
Design and run benchmarks, evaluations, and internal validation efforts that measure scientific quality, reliability, and usefulness.
Explore unfamiliar drug discovery domains; synthesize new methods, tools, and developments; and explain their implications to the team.
Work directly with current and prospective customers through discovery, education, product feedback, and commercial conversations.
Help set scientific product priorities and serve as a trusted domain expert across the company.
Help grow Mirror’s drug discovery team.