Principal Research Scientist II, AI / ML Team Lead Full-time

Company Description

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

Computational Drug Discovery (CDD) at AbbVie is a multifunctional, global organization that drives computational approaches to small molecule drug discovery, supporting all therapeutic areas. The mission of this organization is to apply state-of-the-art computational chemistry, machine learning and physics-based methods to better understand protein structure/function and to accelerate the drug discovery process from hit generation to clinical candidate selection.

We are making significant investments in AI/ML methods to support all elements of the CDD mission, and we are searching for a leader to bolster our expertise in the application of AI/ML methods for drug discovery programs. You will contribute to guiding the future direction of AI/ML in this space.

This position offers the flexibility to be based onsite in North Chicago, IL, Worcester, MA, South San Francisco, CA or Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for contributing to the scientific and strategic incorporation of AI/ML tools into existing CDD workflows.
• Strategic Direction:
  • Interface closely throughout CDD membership to identify opportunities for incorporating AI/ML strategies to enhance contributions to drug discovery pipeline.
  • Collaborate with experts to leverage external innovation, manage external research collaborations.
  • Make decisions based on review of available information and data.
  • Manage multiple projects within the AI/ML team, enabling pipeline-driving science.
• Scientific Leadership:
  • Identify, develop, optimize, validate, and deploy innovative methods for data mining, molecular generation, scoring and modeling that leverage AI/ML models and big data to enhance and apply molecular design capabilities.
  • Interface with AbbVie IT infrastructure teams to ensure effective deployment of AI/ML capabilities.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• BS, MS, or Ph.D. or equivalent in computational chemistry or related discipline, with typically 16+ years (BS), 14+ years (MS), or 8+ years (PhD) of experience.
• Managerial experience leading a scientific research team.
• Strong track record of people, technical, and research project management with significant impact.
• Strong track record of high-impact scientific achievement including a robust publication record.
• Established network with key academic and industrial opinion leaders in machine learning and physics based computational research.
• Knowledge and experience in state-of-the-art modeling, simulation and machine learning technologies / workflows as well as computing infrastructure to be able to leverage rich data collections to accelerate discovery in a fast paced and creative environment.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong leadership skills with ability to navigate multiple stakeholders while engaging and motivating your staff.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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