Scientific Software Developer at Chemical Computing Group, Montreal, Canada

Chemical Computing Group (CCG), a leading life science software company whose products have been used by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies around the world for over 25 years, is seeking talented programmers to help advance the state of the art in drug discovery software.

You are an exceptional programmer with an enthusiasm for learning and collaborating, looking to join a small, high-performing team where you can work at the height of your skills on projects that have relevancy in today's world.

In this full-time position based in our downtown office in Montreal, Canada, you will take responsibility for key areas of development, seeing projects through from conception to release. You will have opportunities to deepen or acquire expertise across the domains of computational and medicinal chemistry and biologics, develop fluency in SVL, the scientific vector language, as well as prepare scientific talks and present them at conferences, and interact with clients.

Your Role

• Research, develop, and optimize new approaches to computer-assisted drug discovery
• Design, implement, test, validate and maintain applications and extensions to CCG products
• Write specifications and technical documentation
• Create and give scientific or technical presentations
• Interact with customers at meetings and conferences in North America and overseas

Your Expertise

• Exceptional programming skills
• Experienced in methods and complex algorithmic development, implementation, and validation
• Experienced in GUI design, cross-platform techniques, numerical analysis, and optimization
• Familiarity with domains relevant to computational chemistry and molecular modeling, such as cheminformatics, protein and antibody modeling, bioinformatics, biologics, molecular dynamics, and forcefield development
• Familiarity with molecular modeling software (computational and GUI)

Your Work Experience and Training

• Three or more years industrial or post-doc experience or equivalent in scientific programming, computational modeling, or applied mathematics
• Commercial experience in a software development team on a large code base is an asset
• MSc/PhD or equivalent in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, or Structural Biology, with a strong programming background

Please send your resume and cover letter by email to ccgjobs a chemcomp.com, with R&D SCI in the subject line. Please include descriptions of the programming and scientific projects in which you were involved, and the nature of your involvement.

For more job openings, please visit our careers page at https://www.chemcomp.com/Career.htm.

We thank all applicants, however, please note that only applicants selected for consideration will be contacted.