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I further attest that all information I submit in my employment application is true to the best of my knowledge.\nJob Description\nObjective / Purpose:\nWe are seeking a skilled cheminformatic scientist to join Takeda’s cheminformatics team. This role will be key to fostering a “prediction-first” culture, integrating cheminformatics, computational chemistry, and machine learning to accelerate drug design. The candidate will collaborate closely with global teams in medicinal chemistry, DMPK, and AI/ML, defining a roadmap for computational tools that empower medicinal chemists to drive innovation.\nAccountabilities:\nDevelop and apply agentic AI solutions for drug discovery, including autonomous or human-in-the-loop workflows that integrate scientific reasoning, molecular design, data analysis, and computational tools.\nIdentify opportunities throughout the DMTA cycle where predictive tools can drive acceleration. Build predictive models for molecule design and optimization. Extract medchem design knowledge from large-scale chemical and biological datasets.\nEstablish and maintain MLOps capabilities for predictive models, including reproducible training and deployment pipelines, model lifecycle orchestration, performance monitoring, versioning, and scheduled retraining.\nBuild, maintain, and enable efficient search and analytics across ultra-large chemical databases, including scalable data ingestion, standardization, indexing, similarity and substructure search, and distributed computing workflows.\nStay updated with emerging trends in computational chemistry and machine learning as applied to drug discovery. Implement and execute innovative computational methodologies and tools such as AI-based drug discovery, generative chemistry, synthesizable chemical space exploration, DNA Encoded Library (DEL) data analysis and DEL/ML application.\nServe as a trusted thought partner, helping to drive ideation and execution of innovative chemistry strategies that meet Takeda’s therapeutic goals.\nEducation & Competencies (Technical and Behavioral):\nPhD in Computational Chemistry, Cheminformatics, Computer Science or related disciplines, with 2+ years of experience in pharmaceutical or biotech setting.\nDemonstrated experience developing and applying agentic AI systems in drug discovery, including integrating and orchestrating chemical and biological databases, foundation models, scientific software tools, and multi-step computational workflows.\nHands-on experience with MLOps and model lifecycle management, including workflow orchestration, CI/CD, model registries, monitoring, version control, and deployment in cloud or high-performance computing environments.\nExperience building, maintaining, and searching ultra-large chemical databases using scalable data engineering, distributed computing, and high-performance search technologies; familiarity with cloud storage, vector search, and chemical indexing is highly desirable.\nSolid programming and scripting capabilities (e.g., Python, R, C/C++) with a proven ability to design and automate scalable computational workflows.\nStrong expertise in cheminformatics toolkits such as RDKit. Comprehensive knowledge of the DMTA cycle with demonstrated success in deploying predictive tools across the design process. Experience leading strategic initiatives to accelerate DMTA cycle.\nThis role is based in Cambridge, MA.\nTakeda Compensation and Benefits Summary\nWe understand compensation is an important factoras you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitablepay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices.\nFor Location:\nBoston, MAU.S. Base Salary Range:\n$137,000.00 - $215,270.00The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.\nFor information about our benefits, please click here.\nEEO Statement\nTakeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.\nLocations\nBoston, MAWorker Type\nEmployeeWorker Sub-Type\nRegularTime Type\nFull timeJob Exempt\nYesIt is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. 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