Drug Discovery Scientist & Engineer
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Translate real preclinical workflows and scientific judgment into requirements for agent behavior, product features, and evaluations. Work hands-on with engineering to prototype, test, diagnose, and improve agents across drug discovery tasks. Design benchmarks and internal validation efforts to measure scientific quality and reliability. Explore unfamiliar domains, synthesize new methods, and explain implications to the team. Collaborate with engineers, customers, and domain experts to shape the platform and establish high scientific standards. Set product priorities and grow the drug discovery team while applying deep specialization to make expert workflows repeatable and scalable.
Required Qualifications
- Multiple years of hands-on preclinical development experience in biotechnology or pharmaceuticals
- Deep expertise in one or more areas of drug discovery
- A strong working understanding of the broader therapeutics development pipeline
- An engineering mindset
- Foundational computational and software development skills
- Familiarity with modern AI systems
- 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
- The ability to move quickly without compromising rigor
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