Software Developers for Drug Discovery at D. E. Shaw Research

Responsibilities

• Build high-performance scientific workflows
• Develop cheminformatics tools and algorithms
• Create large-scale data management and analysis tools
• Design scalable backend systems
• Engineer visualization software

Requirements

• Strong Python and C/C++ programming skills
• Extensive experience with cheminformatics software packages
• Experience with workflow engineering and development
• Familiarity with software development for cluster architectures, high performance data-parallel computing, and systems software
• Linux/UNIX operating system experience preferred

Qualifications

• Intellectual curiosity and versatility
• Track record of achievement

Skills

• Virtual screening and docking
• Computer-aided small molecule design
• Molecular modeling
• Engineering of large-scale chemical databases

Benefits

• Sign-on bonus
• Year-end bonus
• Generous benefits package
• Relocation assistance
• Immigration assistance

Pay

The expected annual base salary for this position is $250,000–$600,000.

Schedule

We follow a hybrid work schedule, in which employees work from the office on Tuesday through Thursday, and have the option of working from home on Monday and Friday.