Senior Automation/medicinal Chemist

Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Milton Park, United Kingdom
Base: £70,400 to £93,500; bonus/equity: eligible f...
On-site
Ai-enabled drug design
Automated synthesis
Medicinal chemistry expertise
This role, bridging AI-enabled design and cutting-edge automated synthesis, is central to our mission

Job Summary

  • This role, bridging AI-enabled design and cutting-edge automated synthesis, is central to our mission.
  • You will have a track record of leadership from the lab, and combine deep medicinal and synthetic chemistry expertise with a commitment to modernizing the drug discovery process.
  • You’ll join the Milton Park based Chemistry Automation group, a multidisciplinary team of chemists and automation specialists who partner closely with discovery and platform teams across Recursion.

Matching Summary

This role, bridging AI-enabled design and cutting-edge automated synthesis, is central to our mission.

Salary

Base: £70,400 to £93,500; Bonus/Equity: Eligible for annual bonus and equity compensation; Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • AI-enabled drug design
  • automated synthesis
  • medicinal chemistry expertise
  • synthetic route design
  • Chemistry Automation Platform
  • collaboration with computational chemists

Nice-to-have

  • leadership from the lab
  • modernizing drug discovery
  • self-starter
  • acting boldly with integrity
  • learning actively and adapting rapidly

Key Requirements

  • Ph.D. in Organic or Medicinal Chemistry or BSc/MSc with equivalent experience
  • Significant relevant industry experience
  • Proven ability to design, prioritize, and execute small molecule drug discovery
  • Experience in application of automation in synthesis
  • Fluency in modern medicinal and computational chemistry software tools

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