Schrödinger, a technology leader specializing in computational methods for drug discovery and development, is looking for a senior computational chemist to join our Drug Discovery Applications Group. The successful candidate will become part of a multidisciplinary drug discovery team working on both collaborative projects with pharmaceutical/biotechnology partners and in-house efforts to improve and apply drug discovery computational methods.

Schrödinger was founded on a technological breakthrough, and scientific excellence and innovation remain the company's main drivers. We are a company of scientists that works closely with clients and collaborators from industry and academia to create relevant, cutting-edge tools to solve real-world research problems.

Job Description:
- Actively participate in Drug Discovery Applications Group projects
- Share computational chemistry expertise with other members of the Group
- Work closely with the Software Development Team to improve Schrödinger’s Drug Discovery technologies

Essential Qualifications and Experience:

- Ph.D. in computational chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry or biochemistry

- At least 2 years of relevant post-Ph.D. experience in computationally-driven lead discovery and optimization

- Extensive experience in structure-based drug design

Schrödinger is an equal opportunity employer.

- Experience in at least 2 of the following molecular modeling areas: virtual ligand screening, computationally driven lead optimization, ligand-based drug design, molecular dynamics, homology modeling, quantum mechanics, cheminformatics or ADMETox/QSPR
- Excellent communication and presentation skills

- Ability to apply computational expertise to multiple collaborative projects

- Ability to work effectively in a geographically distributed team

Desirable Skills:

- Exposure to one or more other disciplines of relevance to drug discovery, such as synthetic organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, biochemistry, physical chemistry or analytical chemistry
- Scripting: python, Perl or shell

- Experience with chemically aware databases including querying (SQL, Javascript, PHP, etc.)

Schrödinger is an equal opportunity employer.