Role Description and Responsibilities

The Protein Modeling and Simulation team within Dassault Systemes BIOVIA develops and validates scientific modeling, simulation, and design methods for our life sciences customers. As a post-doc on the team, you will have access to our advanced modeling and machine learning algorithms and state of the art visualization, and use the BIOVIA Discovery Studio suite with Pipeline Pilot for the development of novel features and research applications.

As part of your role, you will develop new methods to tackle protein design and drug discovery challenges such as robust de novo protein design or blind molecular docking.

This work will expose you to the widely adopted scientific development platform, Pipeline Pilot, and innovative research topics in biologics and drug design.

As part of the development process, you will work with the Quality Assurance team to ensure automated test coverage of new functionality. Additionally, you will participate in discussions with Product Management and customer-facing teams on product direction and new features.

Areas of interest for potential projects include but are not limited to the following:

* Protein modeling and design pipelines using machine learning models such as AlphaFold2, OpenFold, ProteinMPNN, etc.

* Free energy methods for protein design and small molecule drug discovery applications

* Binding kinetics and enhanced sampling

This is a paid six month to a year internship with a flexible start date and will be based in the Dassault Systemes office in San Diego, CA.

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Qualifications

* Ph.D. in computational chemistry, structural biology, or a related field

* Working experience with one or more of the following:

o In silico protein modeling and design

o Free energy calculations

o Machine learning algorithms applied to biological problems e.g. graph neural networks, transformers, transfer learning, etc.

* Previous software development experience

* Proficient in a programming language such as Python, C++, or Java

* Experience with machine learning frameworks such as pytorch, keras, or tensorflow is desirable

* Working experience in BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot is beneficial

* Ability to work in a collaborative team

* Attention to detail and scientific curiosity

The total expected compensation range for this role will be between $22 and $40. In determining the pay range, we take into consideration experience, pay of employees in similar positions, and other job-related factors.

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