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# Senior Scientific Analyst - Cheminformatics AI/ML

- **Company:** WuXi AppTec Inc
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Databases, Information Engineering, Machine Learning, Search Technologies, Data Ingestion, Indexer, Data Management
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=807c9e9d01793a69

## About the Role

* Master's degree is required, preferably a Ph.D. in chemistry, computational chemistry, cheminformatics, or related scientific or technical field, with 2+ years of experience in pharmaceutical or biotech setting preferred.
 * Strong expertise in cheminformatics toolkits. Demonstrated experience managing and searching large chemical databases and datasets using scalable data engineering and high-performance search technologies.
 * Experience applying machine learning and developing agentic AI systems in drug and pharmaceutical analysis.

 * Adequate knowledge of the pharmaceutical and CRDMO (Contract Research Development and Manufacturing Organization) industry.
 * Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to work effectively with interdisciplinary groups.

## Description

Position Purpose: We are recruiting a skilled cheminformatics professional who can integrate chemistry, cheminformatics, pharmaceutics, and machine learning to enable in-depth analysis of synthetic chemistry, pharmaceutics, and related markets. This is a domain expert role that requires strong scientific background and is able to conduct in-depth cheminformatics-related analysis and data management., * Build, maintain, and enable efficient search and analytics across large chemical databases and datasets, including data ingestion, indexing, similarity analysis and high-performance search.

 * Develop and apply agentic AI solutions for drug and pipeline analytics, including autonomous or human-in-the-loop workflows that integrate scientific literatures, data analysis, and computational tools.
 * Stay updated with emerging trends in computational chemistry and machine learning as applied to pharmaceutical drug development and market analytics.
 * Communicate and work effectively with technical leaders on complex, expert-level technical projects and matters