# Medicinal Chemist at Inductive Bio

- Company: Inductive Bio
- What the company does: AI solutions for small molecule drug discovery. AI-integrated synthesis, virtual lab bench, ADME assays, and embedded chemistry experts to accelerate your program. Backed by a16z and Lux.
- Company website: https://www.inductive.bio
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York City, San Francisco, or Boston
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $210K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-05
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inductive-bio/d6ef5aca-c6cf-4b82-b710-cf20e3bd2327
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/inductive-bio-medicinal-chemist/

## About the role

Be an embedded expert, supporting a variety of partner drug discovery programs from lead generation through development candidate nomination across diverse small molecule modalities. Alongside outstanding compchem, DMPK, and machine learning colleagues, bring Inductive’s tools and your medchem knowledge to our work as consultants on partners’ projects.

## What they're looking for

- You have direct experience at all stages of drug discovery projects, and can point to go/no go judgement calls you’ve made in lead generation and lead optimization
- You’ve used different approaches to evaluate compound quality, from LLE to dose prediction, and appreciate the importance of contextualizing results in terms of their expected profile in humans
- The more modalities you’ve worked with, the better, from reversible and covalent to heterobifunctionals and peptides
- Along with designing compounds and analyzing data, you have years of experience in chemical synthesis with CROs. As you think about synthetic strategy, you look for convergent routes and late-stage intermediates
- You communicate effectively and proactively, seek feedback, handle proprietary information with discretion, embrace transparency, and treat others with respect
- Experience with predictive models and automation is a plus! (e.g. FEP, predictive ADME, AI retrosynthesis, direct to biology)

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