# Senior Computational Chemist

Why Join MLCS in Medicine Design Pfizer Medicine Design brings together medicinal chemistry, discovery sciences, and MLCS to invent medicines that deliver meaningful benefits to patients. MLCS plays a central role in enabling data centric and ML-driven discovery, with opportunities to make impact directly on drug discovery projects through clear communication of actionable insights. Position Summary The Machine Learning & Computational Sciences (MLCS) organization within Medicine Design at Pfizer partners broadly across R&D to deliver computational, cheminformatics, and machine learning (ML) capabilities that accelerate drug discovery and development. MLCS supports medicinal chemistry and drug design teams by enabling data-driven decision making, scalable cheminformatics platforms, and impactful scientific applications across the discovery pipeline. We are seeking a Senior Computational Chemist with a strong cheminformatics background and a proven track record of independent scientific delivery. The ideal candidate is expected to lead applied computational and cheminformatics efforts across project teams, develop and shape technical approaches across multiple initiatives, and contr

- **Id**: 4323795
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pfizer-senior-computational-chemist>
- **Role**: Biotech
- **Role family**: Biotech
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: La Jolla, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T22:30:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
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- **Description chars**: 8009
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- **Benefits**: Relocation assistance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Oncology Therapeutics, Infectious Disease Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 3480
- **Name**: Pfizer
- **Domain**: pfizer.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pfizer>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.59
- **Repost share**: 0.026
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 13
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 106000
- **Max**: 176600
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 176600

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **NumPy** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Copilot** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub** — Optional: yes
- **HPC** — Optional: yes
- **SLURM** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T22:30:21Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 91; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 47 · green card filings: 2; Filings 12m: 47

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T23:20:19Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 176600
- **Is top pay**: no

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