Forward-Deployed Scientist

The role

You will act as an advisor to drug programs and an expert in partners' scientific and therapeutic problems. You will use the company technology to ensure partners deploy the platform to maximum effect and translate partner needs into internal research and engineering projects.

What you will do

• Act as an advisor to drug programs
• Become an expert in partners' scientific and therapeutic problems
• Operate as a power user of the company technology
• Ensure partners deploy the platform to maximum effect
• Translate partner asks into internal efforts
• Scope and drive projects to tackle novel challenges alongside research and engineering teams
• Guide the future of the product, models, and approach

Required qualifications

• Academic research experience
• Drug discovery industry experience in antibody engineering, protein design, and computational methods
• Ravenous curiosity
• Outlier aptitude
• Collaboration smarts
• Ability to operate with urgency
• Well-honed communication skills
• Low-ego
• High-EQ
• Performance under pressure

Benefits

• Opportunity to work at the vanguard of AI research and frontier biology
• Work with world-class people
• Culture of high velocity and ownership

About the company

Chai Discovery builds the computer-aided design suite for molecules. Partners including Eli Lilly, GSK, Pfizer, Bristol Myers Squibb, argenx and Novartis use Chai to power drug discovery programs.