Adiabatic Materials | Somerville, MA Reinvent chemistry. Decarbonize industry. Electrify the future. Today, most chemicals are still made using heat from burning fossil fuels in energy-intensive, polluting processes. Backed by Voyager Ventures.
About the role
We're looking for a Senior Computational Chemist who provides well-founded data and new ideas for our product strategy decisions, and builds out our ability to access new routes efficiently. A big part of the job is code for retrosynthetic analysis and Bayesian optimization: adapting open-source tools such as ASKCOS, extending them with our own reactions, and developing new proprietary code, together with the data and parameters behind it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Strong programming skills in Python and efficient use of AI coding tools, with a track record of code that others use, e.g. a tool, a package, a public repository or a publication with code
- Hands-on cheminformatics and machine learning for chemistry: RDKit or similar toolkits, molecular and reaction representations, and reaction and molecular databases
- At least an undergraduate-level understanding of organic chemistry, enough to judge whether a proposed route is plausible and what a reaction template represents
More about this role
The Role
We're looking for a Senior Computational Chemist who provides well-founded data and new ideas for our product strategy decisions, and builds out our ability to access new routes efficiently. A big part of the job is code for retrosynthetic analysis and Bayesian optimization: adapting open-source tools such as ASKCOS, extending them with our own reactions, and developing new proprietary code, together with the data and parameters behind it. The goal is route planning and process optimization that is commercially useful, e.g. which targets benefit most from our reactions and what a product would cost along a proposed route at different scales.
You're a cheminformatics and machine learning expert with a strong interest in chemistry. You enjoy a balance of chemistry discussions and time with your tools and code, and you understand enough chemistry to judge the output of your tools and to answer simple chemistry questions on your own.
What You'll Do
Synthesis Planning: Review the available open-source tools, incl. ASKCOS and RetroAgent, recommend the best fit for our use cases and set it up. Then adapt its code, data and parameters so it proposes the new routes our reactions...
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