What is the Role?
We're looking for a medicinal chemist to drive our drug discovery projects, who is also excited about partnering with machine learning scientists and software developers to advance our computational platforms that accelerate compound design and synthesis.
Required
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At least 3-5 years industry experience on medicinal chemistry projects.
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A passion for solving complex design and synthesis problems in small molecule drug discovery.
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Past experience in the lab doing synthetic chemistry, ideally as applied to drug discovery.
Desired
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Knowledge of chemoinformatics and computational chemistry.
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Knowledge of computational tools used for library design and structure-based methods such as docking or FEP.
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Some experience with programming and Unix. Most importantly, we seek applicants who desire to improve their computational skills and combine them with an in depth knowledge of Chemistry.
About PostEra
PostEra is building a modern biopharma, using machine learning to accelerate medicinal chemistry. We have raised over $26M from top investors, established two strategic partnerships with Pfizer, secured a multi-year partnership with the NIH to prevent pandemics, and are in the process of building our internal pipeline. We also launched and help lead the world's largest open-science initiative to find a COVID antiviral; COVID Moonshot.