Senior Scientist, Computational Chemistry

Merck & Co.

770 Sumneytown Pike,

West Point, PA, 19486

UNITED STATES

Carry out virtual screening to identify novel hit compounds. Assess hits from cutting-edge screening technologies. Use molecular docking to evaluate and prioritize novel molecules for synthesis. Characterize the conformational properties of molecules. Use molecular simulation to understand complex phenomena and predict binding affinities. Define best practices for the use of machine learning approaches on the teams.

Job Requirement

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Biophysics, Biochemistry or equivalent with a computational emphasis and 0-3 years of industrial computational chemistry experience.

Company Description

Merck & Co., is an American multinational pharmaceutical company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Merck & Co. was expropriated by the US government during World War I and subsequently established as an independent American company in 1917. While it operates as Merck & Co. in North America, the original Merck based in Darmstadt holds the rights to the Merck name everywhere else.

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