Senior Scientist, Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) - In Silico Discovery

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:
Data Analytics & Computational Sciences
Job Sub Function:
Data Science
Job Category:
Scientific/Technology
All Job Posting Locations:
San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Job Description:

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (JJIM) is recruiting for a Senior Scientist, Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) - In Silico Discovery to join our Therapeutics Discovery team located in either San Diego, CA (La Jolla area) or Spring House, PA (Philadelphia area).

The Therapeutics Discovery organization within JJIM is continuing to build scientific expertise in modeling, screening, pharmacology and chemistry to partner closely with therapeutic area scientists to develop groundbreaking new medicines in the areas of Immunology, Neuroscience and Oncology. The In Silico Discovery (ISD) group in Therapeutics Discovery is seeking two excellent scientists to bring their expertise to exciting and novel areas of computational drug design.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Design therapeutic molecules and calculate their properties using state-of-the-art methodologies integrating chemical, biological and structural data, cheminformatics, and artificial intelligence/machine learning techniques
• Serve as a scientific expert and to contribute in multi-disciplinary discovery project teams that include synthetic chemists, structural biologists, and other discovery scientists, by providing key computational expertise to advance drug discovery projects
• Collaborate within Janssen and with external academic and industrial partners to develop new computational technologies to address key questions in drug discovery
• Publish results in peer reviewed journals and present at scientific meetings
• Mentor junior scientists and/ or interns fostering their development as expert computational drug hunters
• Contribute to efforts to evaluate and assess novel protein targets of interest for their ligandability and tractability against various modalities (small molecule, degraders, peptide, glues, etc.)

Qualifications:

• A PhD in computational chemistry, organic chemistry or a related field, with at least 1-5 years of experience applying computational modeling in a pharmaceutical industry drug design setting is required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a publication record is required
• Experience with multiple therapeutic modalities (e.g. small molecules, biologics, peptides, targeted protein degraders) is preferred
• Experience with one or more of: working in a cross-functional environment, mentoring scientists, influencing decisions and resolving conflicts is strongly preferred
• Familiarity with at least one standard computational drug discovery package (examples may include Maestro/Schrodinger, MOE/Chemical Computing Group, and/or OpenEye tools) is required
• Experience scripting computational workflows in Pipeline Pilot, KNIME, Python or Jupyter notebooks is preferred

This is a Hybrid role available in Spring House, PA, or San Diego, CA within the US (no fully remote option). Travel up to approximately 10% may be required, domestic and international.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants' needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers or internal employees may contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $105,000 to $169,050. The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation's performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company's discretion on an individual basis. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company's consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation - up to 120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays - up to 13 days per calendar year of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Additional information can be found through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.

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