Hybrid

About the role:

This vital Computer-Aided Drug Discovery (CADD) role, located at our Emeryville, CA site, will join our talented and innovative drug discovery team. At Novartis, we value your ideas, personal growth and career aspirations. You will have opportunities to explore the power of cutting-edge science and technology in an environment that truly values multidisciplinary collaborations.

Your key responsibilities:
• Leverage your CADD expertise to engage and influence multidisciplinary project teams for effective decision-making from target identification through candidate nomination
• Drive compound optimization cycles by participation in rational drug design and synthesis prioritization efforts via advanced scoring methods (active learning and ML model development, free-energy perturbation or alternate scoring method), in multi-objective fashion
• Develop, improve and implement efficient computational workflows that can be distributed to our global CADD team
• Initiate drug discovery efforts by proposing novel targets / modalities, evaluating target druggability and executing in silico hit generation, triage and expansion methodologies
• Keep abreast of scientific developments and interact with internal and external scientists to integrate novel insights into computational approaches for drug discovery