Principal Research Scientist II, AI / ML Team Lead

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Job description

Job Description

Computational Drug Discovery (CDD) at AbbVie is a multifunctional, global organization that drives computational approaches to small molecule drug discovery, supporting all therapeutic areas. The mission of this organization is to apply state-of-the-art computational chemistry, machine learning and physics-based methods to better understand protein structure/function and to accelerate the drug discovery process from hit generation to clinical candidate selection.

We are making significant investments in AI/ML methods to support all elements of the CDD mission, and we are searching for a leader to bolster our expertise in the application of AI/ML methods for drug discovery programs. You will contribute to guiding the future direction of AI/ML in this space.

This position offers the flexibility to be based onsite in North Chicago, IL, Worcester, MA, South San Francisco, CA or Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for contributing to the scientific and strategic incorporation of AI/ML tools into existing CDD workflows.

Strategic Direction:Interface closely throughout CDD membership to identify opportunities for incorporating AI/ML strategies to enhance contributions to drug discovery pipeline.

Collaborate with experts to leverage external innovation, manage external research collaborations.

Make decisions based on review of available information and data.

Manage multiple projects within the AI/ML team, enabling pipeline-driving science.

Scientific Leadership: Identify, develop, optimize, validate, and deploy innovative methods for data mining, molecular generation, scoring and modeling that leverage AI/ML models and big data to enhance and apply molecular design capabilities.

Interface with AbbVie IT infrastructure teams to ensure effective deployment of AI/ML capabilities.

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