Senior Scientist, Cheminformatics

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Job Function:
Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:
Data Science

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

We are seeking a passionate and dedicated Senior Scientist, Cheminformatics to join our cutting-edge in silico discovery team.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to build and advance state-of-the-art informatics capabilities, working closely with medicinal chemists and multidisciplinary project teams.

If you have a strong foundation in cheminformatics, a passion for coding, and a keen interest in drug discovery, we want to hear from you!

Caring for the world, one person at a time has inspired and united the people of Johnson & Johnson for over 125 years.

We embrace research and science -- bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people.

Employees of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world!

Thriving on a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our employees and committed to inclusion.

Proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.

And our culture is interconnected by the shared values of Our Credo.

It’s a culture that celebrates diversity and diverse perspectives.

It helps employees achieve an effective mix between work and home life and supports their efforts to have a positive impact on their communities.

Key Responsibilities


* Advance drug discovery projects by implementing industry-leading cheminformatics, data science, and machine learning approaches, thereby strengthening data-driven decision-making


* Design, build and optimize informatics workflows working closely together with our IT team to go all the way from ideation to production


* Build user-friendly GUIs and dashboards to facilitate data exploration and presentation


* Integrate and mine internal and external heterogenous data sources in the support of pre-portfolio projects


* Keep up with ever growing on-demand chemical spaces by implementing and/or applying algorithms for virtual screening and chemical space comparisons


* Implement ML models for property prediction, clustering, and data analys...