# Scientist, Cheminformatics at Octant Bio

- Company: Octant Bio
- What the company does: Backed by a16z and Lux.
- Company website: https://www.octant.bio
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Emeryville, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $190K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-16
- Apply: https://www.octant.bio/jobs?gh_jid=6131353004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/octant-bio-scientist-cheminformatics/

## About the role

We are seeking a scientist with cheminformatics expertise to join our dynamic and multidisciplinary research team. A core focus of your role will be to guide assay development and evaluate the resulting data using chemical reasoning, expanding the capabilities of the Octant Navigator platform.

## What they're looking for

- A PhD in Chemistry, Cheminformatics, Chemical Biology, Computational Chemistry, or a related discipline
- 3-5 years of research experience. Industry preferred, but exceptional recent PhD graduates with strong relevant experience are encouraged to apply
- Expertise in organic and/or medicinal chemistry, ideally including DMPK, ability to reason about structure-property relationships
- Practical analytical chemistry knowledge, especially chromatography (HPLC, SFC, LC-MS): retention behavior, failure modes, and ability to differentiate signal from artifact
- Strong statistics and data science fundamentals, including experiment design, batch effects, and uncertainty, ability to develop quantitative assays and generate and analyze large datasets
- Solid software skills: fluency in Python and/or R and the standard cheminformatics stack (e.g., RDKit, pandas), writing reproducible analyses that other people can actually run and build on

Tags: Compute