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Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning and Computational Chemistry

Eikon Therapeutics - Millbrae, CA, United States - In-office - posted 2026-08-18

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Eikon Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company leveraging revolutionary technology at the intersection of chemistry, engineering, computation, and biology to discover novel treatments for life-threatening diseases. The company's discovery platform is built on groundbreaking innovations from its founders (Nobel Prize, 2014), featuring microscopes that enable real-time, molecular-resolution measurements of protein movement in living cells, unlocking otherwise intractable protein classes as drug targets. As a Staff Software Engineer in Machine Learning and Computational Chemistry, you will interface with biologists, chemists, microscopists, and optical and automation engineers to design and deploy computational solutions that enable exploration and quantification of Eikon's high-content datasets. Key responsibilities include: - Design and optimize algorithms and models for chemical property prediction, compound screening, and reaction optimization - Deploy computational chemistry tools into production pipeline environments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance - Collaborate on computational chemistry pipelines to accelerate early drug discovery with simulation, modeling, and AI - Work collaboratively with scientists and engineers to understand tactical needs, prototype, and productionize software to keep experiments moving forward - Provide technical leadership and mentorship across computational chemistry initiatives You are an adventurous, passionate, and creative software engineer eager to apply your talents to empower interdisciplinary scientific exploration, inaugurate a radical drug-discovery paradigm, and ultimately create novel medicines. You bring enthusiasm, energy, intellectual curiosity, and scientific rigor to this challenge.

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