Application Scientist, Computational Chemistry
X4 Life Sciences
Boston, MA, United States
Full-time
Your Role :
As a Senior Application and Discovery Scientist, you will join the product management team for our AI, Cheminformatics, and automation drug discovery products.
You will play a crucial role in developing AI-enabled software and a robotics ecosystem for drug discovery.
Key Responsibilities :
- Serve as a superuser of our AI / Cheminformatics software, providing expertise to medicinal chemists on drug design projects.
- Lead pre-sales activities, including product demonstrations, planning, training, and offering design guidance to engineering and external partners.
- Create scientific and marketing content to showcase our product's value to support sales and marketing efforts.
- Participate in customer onboarding, provide technical training, and ensure effective tool utilization post-implementation.
- Train internal stakeholders, including general sales and technical teams.
- Recommend product feature designs to the engineering team, address technical inquiries, and represent the product expertise.
- Engage in scientific projects with customers, using our software to drive drug discovery results, aiming for publications.
- Leverage networking opportunities to stay updated on industry trends, build trust in our technology, and identify potential sales opportunities.
Physical Attributes :
Expect approximately 20 -30% travel domestically and / or internationally.
Who You Are :
Minimum Qualifications :
- PhD (or MS) in computational chemistry, medicinal chemistry, cheminformatics, or a related field.
- At least 1 year of experience using cheminformatics / computational modeling tools for drug discovery.
- At least 1 year of experience in a customer-facing role.
- Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration and customer engagement.
Preferred Qualifications :
- MBA is a plus.
- Experience with demos and training of cheminformatics tools or chemistry software solutions.
- In-depth understanding of small molecule drug discovery processes.
- Comfortable in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment.
- Self-driven, results-oriented leader with a collaborative working style.
30+ days ago