About the job
Inductive Bio partners with biotech and pharmaceutical companies to accelerate drug discovery through AI-driven virtual labs. The platform supports the full Design-Make-Test-Analyze (DMTA) cycle, combining proprietary ADMET prediction models, dose estimation tools, and Indy, an AI medicinal chemistry assistant. The company collaborates with CROs to connect computational design with experimental validation, offering advanced synthesis, direct-to-dose testing, and tier 1 ADME panels. Inductive Bio works on both small molecule and beyond-rule-of-five programs.
Beacon-1, Inductive’s core technology, has earned top honors in the 2025 Polaris and 2026 OpenADMET-ExpansionRx blind competitions, outperforming major industry players. The company has raised $30 million from investors including Obvious Ventures, a16z Bio + Health, and Lux Capital, and received a $21 million ARPA-H CATALYST award for toxicity model development.
Role overview
The AI-Driven Medicinal Chemist will help shape Inductive Bio’s AI-centric drug discovery platform. Reporting to the Head of Medicinal Chemistry, this role plays a central part in all phases of the DMTA cycle. The position is based in New York City, San Francisco, or Boston.
What you will do
- Act as an embedded expert on partner drug discovery programs, supporting work from lead generation through development candidate nomination for various small molecule modalities.
- Collaborate with computational chemistry, DMPK, and machine learning teams, applying both Inductive’s tools and your medicinal chemistry expertise as a consultant on partner projects.
- Integrate Inductive’s experimental services, predictive models, and AI workflows with chemistry and assay CRO partners to efficiently test hypotheses and deliver value for partners.
- Contribute to the development of an AI-native drug discovery platform, shaping Indy (the AI medicinal chemistry agent) and building assay and synthesis workflows for faster, higher-quality results.
- Advance Inductive’s mission by building industry relationships, engaging with partners, gathering insights from drug discovery teams, attending conferences, giving presentations, and authoring blog posts and publications.
