About The Position
Join the small-molecule team within AI for Drug Discovery (AI4DD), formerly Prescient Design, at Roche and Genentech’s Computational Sciences Center of Excellence as a Machine Learning Scientist / Senior Machine Learning Scientist in Small Molecule Drug Design. You will develop and apply ML methods and models to accelerate small-molecule drug design with a focus on structure-driven approaches, working hand in hand with world-class computational and medicinal chemists and structural biologists.
Requirements
- Deep machine-learning expertise with a strong foundation in linear algebra, probability and optimization.
- Hands-on experience designing & implementing machine learning approaches such as graph neural networks, sequence models, and reinforcement learning.
- Structure-driven modelling experience with co-folding methods, binding-affinity prediction, and structural-biology datasets.
- Fluent in Python and cheminformatics with toolkits such as RDKit and OpenEye, and modern ML frameworks like PyTorch or JAX.
- A PhD or equivalent research depth in machine learning, computational chemistry, chemical engineering or a related quantitative field such as physics or statistics.
- A record of scientific excellence evidenced by journal and conference publications or a public portfolio of relevant projects (e.g. hosted on GitHub/GitLab).
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on experience building structure-prediction foundation models.
- Experience collaborating directly with medicinal chemists and structural biologists.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and apply cutting-edge ML models for small-molecule drug design, focused on protein–ligand interactions, binding affinity and key molecular properties.
- Train and fine-tune foundation models for structure prediction, using internally developed and open-source models on internal datasets.
- Validate and refine ML-generated hypotheses alongside world-class computational and medicinal chemists and structural biologists.
- Drive scientific impact through publications, open-source releases, and conference talks.
- Collaborate widely with computational and experimental researchers at Roche and with academic partners.
Benefits
- Pay transparency details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Basel. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
