Aqemia
Research internship - Computational Chemistry and Structural Biology
At Aqemia you will work in a multi-disciplinary team of passionate drug hunters, AI engineers and developers who are committed to our mission of finding many drugs, at high pace, to cure diseases.
As part of our growing team, you will enjoy a fast-paced, challenging, science-driven and creative environment, working at the very forefront of AI & Deep physics-powered drug discovery. This is a tremendous opportunity to bring your own impact on changing the way medicines are discovered and be involved in shaping the direction of our fast growing business and team.
We are looking for highly skilled and collaborative individuals who are naturally curious, have a passion for learning and solving complex problems with a “can-do” mindset.
If this sounds exciting to you, come and join us!
We are looking for an intern to join our Drug Hunter team and help develop new methods.
What you'll do
- Virtual screening of large databases of molecules, enhanced by state of the art ML algorithms
- Structure activity relationship analysis
- Multi Constraint Optimization strategies to generate molecules that satisfy several criteria.
- Effective sampling and scoring of 3D molecular conformations
- Free Energy computation for binding affinity prediction
Who you are
- You are a Master student in Organic Chemistry, Bioinformatics or Computer Science and you are looking for a 5-6 month internship. In addition, you have a strong Organic or Theoretical Chemistry background and hands-on experience in Python.
- Having basic knowledge in chemoinformatics is a plus, but it is not required.
- You are passionate about solving difficult problems on topics that really matter and you are curious, motivated and dynamic. You want to grow and help others grow as well and you like working collaboratively in an interdisciplinary, fast-paced environment.
Our Workplace Environment
- Fast-paced, intellectually and scientifically demanding, results-driven.
- Our Founders boast
- 10+ years experience in research at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, not to mention a stint in Oxford and Cambridge.
- 10+ years experience in strategy consulting at BCG.
- Aqemia has a rapidly growing team of +40 people from world-class institutions (AstraZeneca, GSK, Sanofi, Harvard, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Polytechnique, BCG)
- Our premises are conveniently located in center of Paris (1 Bd Pasteur), with a possibility of up to 2 days of remote work.
- Working language: English
We are growing fast, if you feel that you don't fit this job description but you’re still excited to join, then please get in touch!
Aqemia is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, disability status or any other basis under applicable law.
Aqemia is a drug invention company focused on creating entirely new medicines to tackle significant unmet medical needs. Utilizing our proprietary QEMI platform, we combine advanced technology and cutting-edge science to design novel drug candidates from the ground up, driving true innovation in the pharmaceutical industry.