Chief Technology Officer

BioSimulytics is an exciting fast-growing start-up company. The company was founded in 2019 as a spin-out from University College Dublin in Ireland and is based in NovaUCD, the university campus facilities for new ventures. The company specialises in developing an AI-powered molecular simulation platform for drug development serving biopharma companies worldwide in the mission to develop new drugs for "hard to treat" diseases faster, more cost effectively and with greater precision. The company successfully raised a substantial pre-seed investment round and won its first commercial contract with a major Pharma company and is now looking to recruit a new Chief Technology Officer to join the existing Co-Founders in driving the product development roadmap for scale-up of the business. The required competences for this role are outlined below.

Core Skills & Qualifications

• PhD in physics, chemistry, biology or engineering involving molecular simulation, with coding of same as a core skill (in addition, expertise in using open-source community software packages is important, but, in and of itself, insufficient)

• Minimum of 3-4 years of industrial pharmaceuticals-industry molecular simulation experience: drug design and protein-ligand energetics, as well as free-energy methods and bioinformatics

• Extensive experience with drug-design software

• Working knowledge of IP and business management influencing industrial software purchasing decisions

• Excellent list of personal contacts in the drug-design/development sector, both in 'Big-Pharma' and CMOs/CROs

• Excellent oral/written communication and presentation skills

• Experience in winning and managing projects, and dealing with customers

• Strong drive and work ethic, and conscientious/professional manner

Additional advantageous skills/experience are:

• Experience in parallel (MPI/OpenMP) and cloud computing

• Strong experience in both empirical models, tight-binding, as well as linear-scaling and traditional electronic-structure calculations (e.g., Density-Functional Theory)

• Experience in procuring, operating and sys-admin of High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems

• Extensive experience with a variety of solid-state pharmaceutical simulation tools (crystal-structure prediction, crystallography)

• Postdoc experience in computational drug design and/or solid-state pharmaceuticals simulations

• Publication record of same

• Patent and IP-development skills

The role is based in Dublin, Ireland and offers a competitive remuneration package including equity participation.