Forward-Deployed Scientist – Computational & Medicinal Chemistry

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Apheris

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Apheris is a company that specializes in enabling secure and compliant data collaboration across distributed data environments, particularly for enterprises. The company's solutions empower organizations to engage in federated machine learning and analytics, facilitating the building of models without needing to move sensitive data, thus preserving privacy and security. Apheris focuses on providing technology that allows multi-party data ecosystems and partnerships, with a strong emphasis on compliance, particularly in regulated industries like pharmaceuticals and biotech. Their technology is trusted by major pharmaceutical companies to support AI-driven drug discovery initiatives without compromising proprietary data.

📋 Description

• Act as a forward-deployed scientist, focused on driving adoption and real, measurable impact • Work hands-on with pharma users of the Co-Folding Application, guiding benchmarking, testing, and application to real discovery programs • Build relationships with the relevant stakeholders across pharma R&D, from computational and medicinal chemists to program leaders • Feed insights from the field back to Product and the AI Applications Team to shape platform improvements • Run in-person and remote workshops to train users and share best practices with research teams • Develop case studies that demonstrate impact and can be replicated across projects • Contribute scientific content such as example datasets, usage guidelines, and evaluation protocols

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in computational chemistry, medicinal chemistry, or a related field • Hands-on experience as a power user in structure-based workflows - co-folding, docking, protein–ligand modeling in real drug discovery programs • Familiarity with molecular visualization and cheminformatics tools (e.g., PyMOL, RDKit) • Credibility with both computational and medicinal chemists, and ability to bridge what each group needs • Basic scripting skills to run and explain notebooks and analyses • Comfortable working without full specifications - takes ownership, makes progress under ambiguity • Communicates clearly across technical and non-technical audiences • Nice to have: Experience in a customer-facing role (e.g., CRO, application scientist) • Familiarity with OpenFold, Boltz, or other structure/affinity prediction tools • Experience working within or alongside enterprise IT/data environments typical of large pharma • Experience working on time-sensitive or high-stakes projects

🏖️ Benefits

• Industry-competitive compensation, including early-stage virtual share options • Remote-first working – work where you work best, whether from home or a co-working space near you • Great suite of benefits, including a wellbeing budget, mental health benefits, a work-from-home budget, a co-working stipend and a learning and development budget • Regular team lunches and social events • Generous holiday allowance • Office Days at our Berlin HQ or a different European location (3x a year) • A fun, diverse team of mission-driven individuals with a drive to see AI and ML used for good • Plenty of room to grow personally and professionally and shape your own role