About the Opportunity
Nxera Pharma is a technology-powered biopharma company focused on addressing major unmet needs in CNS, GI, immunology, metabolic disorders, and rare diseases. Our pipeline leverages the power of our unique and industry-leading GPCR-targeted structure-based drug discovery platform, NxWave.
We are seeking a Senior Scientist/Lead Scientist - Computational Chemistry to join our Computational Chemistry team and contribute to the development of innovative medicines using our NxWave platform. As a member of our team, you will work closely with key stakeholders across other disciplines to define and execute computational approaches that support delivery of projects across the portfolio.
Responsibilities include developing novel, innovative computational tools that enhance the NxWave drug design process, applying a broad set of computational and cheminformatic tools, workflows, and models to extract, integrate, analyse, and visualise complex chemical, structural, pharmacological, and ADMET data, and contributing to the development of new computational chemistry CADD software via external collaborations.
A PhD in computational chemistry, cheminformatics, or a related discipline, plus at least 3 years' experience in a collaborative multi-disciplinary medicinal chemistry research environment, is required. The ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, be a team player with an inclusive, proactive, and positive mindset, and be able to communicate effectively with team members having diverse professional backgrounds.