Research Scientist

2 weeks ago


Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom SLS Services Limited Full time

Job Title: Research Scientist - Drug Discovery

Company Overview: SLS Services Limited is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel medicines for underserved diseases.

Salary: £70,000 - £90,000 per annum

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced computational chemist to join our team. As a research scientist, you will be involved in multiple projects drawn from various therapeutic areas and at different stages from initial hit identification to lead optimisation.

You will provide computational chemistry expertise to cross-functional teams to support drug discovery projects, contribute to the development of computational chemistry technologies, and develop tools and workflows to extract, integrate, analyse and visualise chemical, biophysical and ADMET data.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

  • Industry experience or postdoctoral experience in computational chemistry
  • Practical knowledge of conducting and analysis of molecular dynamics simulations using standard software such as OpenMM, AMBER and/or GROMACS, etc
  • Experience in QSAR virtual screening, ideally with peptides
  • Experience in writing analysis scripts and pipelines in common scripting languages, such as python, in Jupyter notebooks or as standalone scripts.
  • Experience in amino acid and peptide modelling
  • Practical knowledge of Free Energy Perturbation (FEP) calculations
  • Use of HPC

Benefits:

This is an excellent opportunity to work with a collaborative environment and multiple teams within our drug discovery pipeline.

We offer a competitive salary, benefits package, and opportunities for professional growth and development.



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