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About the role
We are hiring a Senior Engineer I, Cheminformatics to develop and operate the cheminformatics workflows behind Ginkgo’s makeable chemical space and reaction-prediction capabilities.
What they're looking for
- Strong practical experience in cheminformatics and reaction prediction, including experience with retrosynthesis, reaction-condition prediction, synthetic accessibility, or related workflows
- Experience working with reaction SMARTS, functional-group classification, molecular representations, and chemical structure data
- Experience working with large chemical or vendor building-block catalogs and understanding the trade-offs involved in coverage, scale, and data quality
- Strong Python skills and experience writing code that others can run and maintain
- Familiarity with service-oriented software, Docker, environment-based configuration, and data pipelines
- Working knowledge of common medicinal-chemistry synthetic transformations and the ability to collaborate effectively with synthetic chemists
More about this role
Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.
Ginkgo Datapoints, a business unit within Ginkgo Bioworks, is ushering in the coming era of AI-backed biotechnology breakthroughs. By leveraging Ginkgo’s automation and digital infrastructure, Datapoints builds high-quality, large-scale datasets and technical capabilities that accelerate drug discovery and development.
The Small Molecules team is looking for a cheminformatics scientist to support the computational work of building and navigating makeable chemical spaces. This includes building the space itself, developing tools that help scientists search and use it, and predicting the outcomes of chemical reactions that connect design to synthesis.
We are hiring a Senior Engineer I, Cheminformatics to develop and operate the cheminformatics workflows behind Ginkgo’s makeable chemical space and reaction-prediction capabilities.
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