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Job Title: Cheminformatics & Python Solutions Developer
Employment Type: Contract
Location: Groton, Connecticut, United States
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Duration: 6 Months
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Cheminformatics & Python Solutions Developer with strong Python programming skills and hands-on expertise in cheminformatics, chemical structure processing, and scientific data automation.
The ideal candidate will develop scientific applications, automate chemistry workflows, and support chemical structure curation, validation, standardization, and molecular data management.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Python applications, APIs, libraries, and automated workflows for chemistry data processing.
- Curate, validate, standardize, and normalize chemical structures and molecular datasets.
- Perform salt and solvent handling, charge normalization, valence checks, tautomer treatment, stereochemistry validation, and duplicate detection.
- Build automated pipelines for molecular data ingestion, transformation, validation, and export.
- Utilize cheminformatics tools to perform substructure searches, similarity searches, scaffold analysis, molecular descriptor calculations, and property predictions.
- Integrate chemistry platforms, scientific databases, and enterprise services through APIs.
- Prepare molecular datasets and features for AI/ML and predictive modeling initiatives.
- Collaborate with chemists, data scientists, informatics specialists, and software engineers.
- Write clean, modular, tested, and maintainable code with appropriate documentation.
Required Skills
- Strong Python programming and software development experience.
- Hands-on experience with RDKit, ChemAxon, or equivalent cheminformatics toolkits.
- Knowledge of chemical structures, molecular representations, and chemistry data management.
- Experience with chemical structure standardization, normalization, validation, and curation.
- Understanding of molecular descriptors, substructure searching, similarity searching, and scaffold analysis.
- Experience developing data pipelines, APIs, and scientific automation solutions.
- Knowledge of molecular data preparation for AI/ML applications.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in pharmaceutical research, drug discovery, computational chemistry, or scientific informatics.
- Familiarity with compound registration systems and molecular databases.
- Experience with automated testing, version control, code reviews, and production support.
Contract Details
- Duration: 6 months
- Location: Groton, CT
- Work arrangement: Hybrid
Interested candidates are encouraged to apply with an updated resume highlighting their Python development and cheminformatics experience.