Scientist Medicinal Chemistry

6d6 days ago

Bayer

Berlin, DE · Full-time · €88,900 – €108,000

About this role

At Bayer, visionaries solve the world’s toughest challenges, striving for Health for all, Hunger for none. As Scientist Medicinal Chemistry, contribute to projects identifying pre-clinical and clinical development candidates addressing unmet medical needs. Join a community of brilliant, diverse minds to make a real difference.

Realize novel design ideas through hands-on synthetic chemistry in collaboration with project chemists, automated medicinal chemistry group, or contract-research-organizations. Provide state-of-the-art documentation of experiments, including analytical data analysis like LC-MS, MS, NMR, and physicochemical characterization. Contribute to lead identification from hit-structures in the >4.5 million compound library.

Be a member of project teams and design teams, collaborating with computational chemists on structure-based drug discovery. Help secure IP by contributing experimental parts to patent applications with patent lawyers. Ensure high safety standards and compliance in the work environment.

Grow capabilities in a flexible, appreciative environment tailored to your lifestyle. Passionately challenge the status quo in drug discovery, implementing AI/ML in daily tasks. Build a varied, meaningful career bringing new drugs to patients.

Requirements

PhD in synthetic organic chemistry or a related field
Knowledge of classical and modern synthetic methods as well as modern tools in chemical research
Experience in medicinal chemistry is a plus
Research experience in organic chemistry demonstrated by scientific publications and/or patent applications
Affinity to digital tools and their application in Drug Discovery and Medicinal Chemistry
Readiness to help implementing AI/ML in daily drug discovery tasks
Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to work in cross-functional teams
Fluent in English, both written and spoken, willingness to learn German

Responsibilities

Contribute to projects to identify pre-clinical and clinical development candidates addressing unmet medical needs
Collaboratively identify biologically active compounds for target validation and disease to target link clarification
Contribute to lead identification process based on hit-structures from >4.5 million compound library
Collaborate with computational chemists on structure-based drug discovery approaches
Realize novel design ideas by hands-on synthetic chemistry to reach project goals
Provide state-of-the-art documentation of experiments with analytical data analysis (LC-MS, MS, NMR) and physicochemical characterization
Help secure IP by contributing experimental parts to patent applications
Ensure high safety standards and compliance in work environment