Eikon Therapeutics is a new biopharmaceutical company employing revolutionary technology at the interface of chemistry, engineering, computation, and biology to discover novel treatments for life-threatening diseases. Eikon’s discovery platform is built on groundbreaking innovations from its founders (Nobel Prize, 2014), culminating in the creation of microscopes which enable real-time, molecular-resolution measurements of protein movement in living cells, thereby unlocking otherwise intractable classes of proteins as drug targets.

About You

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 will bring to this challenge enthusiasm, high energy, intellectual curiosity, and scientific rigor.
As part of Eikon’s diverse team, you will interface with biologists, medicinal chemists, microscopists, and optical and automation engineers to design and deploy computational solutions that enable the exploration and quantification of Eikon’s high-content datasets.

What You’ll Do

• Help define and develop machine learning algorithms to support system analysis and experimental results.
• Work collaboratively with scientists and engineers to understand tactical needs, prototype, and then productionize software to keep experiments moving forward.
• Work on multiple projects simultaneously, developing milestones and deadlines in coordination with the broader company goals.

Qualifications

• Pursuing BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or in a related quantitative field (physics, statistics, computational biology, etc.)
• Ability to efficiently investigate and solve problems, from prototype development (Python, R, MATLAB, etc.) to production designs
• Strong Python programming expertise required;
• Familiarity with biology and biological terms/concepts at the college freshman level preferred
• Experience developing software in a scientific domain preferred
• Experience in ML-based anomaly detection methods preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Team-oriented, flexible, able to adapt to rapidly evolving goals and challenges
• Enthusiasm for drug discovery essential

Eikon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment

The expected hourly range for this role is $30.00 per hour depending on skills, competency and the market demand for your expertise.