Computational Chemistry Expert (PhD)
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About this role
Location: Remote
Job Summary: In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, evaluate, and critique advanced computational chemistry workflows to support AI benchmarking initiatives.
- Provide expert-level insights on molecular simulations, electronic structure methods, and cheminformatics pipelines.
- Assess and optimize simulation parameters and scientific software configurations for accuracy and reproducibility.
- Analyze data from molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, and drug discovery projects, providing actionable recommendations.
- Leverage domain knowledge to guide the development and validation of chemistry-related AI models and tools.
- Communicate complex scientific concepts clearly, both in writing and verbally, to technical and non-technical collaborators.
- Document findings, methodologies, and best practices to ensure knowledge transfer across the customer’s team.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- PhD in chemistry, computational chemistry, or closely related field, or equivalent industry/research experience.
- Deep expertise with computational chemistry methods and simulation-heavy environments is desirable.
- Proficiency with industry-standard tools such as Gaussian, ORCA, Psi4, NWChem, GROMACS, LAMMPS, AMBER, RDKit, or OpenBabel would be ideal.
- Strong scientific programming and analytical workflow experience, especially using Python.
- Excellent quantitative, analytical, and scientific reasoning skills.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication abilities, with the ability to clearly document and explain technical concepts.
- Track record of rigorous scientific problem-solving in complex chemistry domains.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AI/ML-assisted chemistry workflows or benchmarking.
- Peer-reviewed publications, patents, or contributions to open-source scientific software.
- Background in drug discovery, spectroscopy analysis, or reaction prediction/retrosynthesis.
Key skills
- computational chemistry
- molecular simulations
- python
- gaussian
- gromacs
- lammps
- amber
- orca
- psi4
- nwchem
- rdkit
- openbabel
- cheminformatics
- electronic structure methods
- scientific software configuration
- molecular dynamics
- drug discovery
- ai/ml-assisted chemistry workflows
- quantitative analysis
- analytical reasoning
- scientific programming
- written communication
- verbal communication
- documentation
- problem-solving
Details
- Company: micro1
- Job type: Contract
- Location: Remote
- Eligible locations: Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan and 52 more
- Platform: micro1
Apply directly through micro1 using the link below. micro1 hires experts for remote, flexible roles training and evaluating frontier AI systems.
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