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Application Scientist - Computational Chemistry

Tamarind Bio logoTamarind BioYC W24
AI-native
TypeFull-time
SponsorshipNo visa sponsorship
Salary$130,000–$200,000
LocationSan Francisco, CA
Research

As an Applications Scientist at Tamarind, you’ll guide customers in using state-of-the art molecular design tools, provide strategic scientific support, and produce educational content for scientists’ benefit.

What you’ll do:

  • Provide scientific support to existing and prospective customers, focusing on practical applications of molecular AI in therapeutic programs.
  • Write high quality educational content for tens of thousands of scientists’ consumption
  • Publish and present at scientific conferences
  • Troubleshoot customer pipelines, tickets, tool use problems

Qualifications:

  • PhD in computational chemistry, bioinformatics, structural biology, biophysics or a related field
  • Expertise in the application of machine learning methods for small molecule design, especially as applied to therapeutic programs
  • Programming skills with fluency in manipulating biological data such as molecular structures, compounds, sequences, and databases
  • Willingness to travel for conferences and customer on-site visits

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Tamarind Bio logo

Tamarind Bio

At Tamarind(https://www.tamarind.bio), we provide web interfaces and APIs for the leading publicly available molecular design tools. Users can run models like AlphaFold/Chai-1, RFdiffusion, ProteinMPNN and 200+ others with up to hundreds of thousands of inputs running in parallel. Customers, including many top 20 biopharma, use us to design de novo binders, stabilize/solubilize antigens, improve binding affinities of protein binders, and score Abs for developability.

Private companySeries AYC W24AI-product
HQSan Francisco, United States
Size11–50 employees
Unlock human wisdom
ThesisTermsPrivacy
IndustrySoftware Development
Funding
  • Series A · $12M · Feb 24, 2026
Investors
Dimension Capital

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