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Are you someone who is excited about getting in on the ground floor of a biotech company founded on a validated drug discovery platform? We are seeking passionate drug hunters to build our growing “spin-out” company – Kimia Therapeutics. Kimia is innovating drug discovery by combining Chemotype Evolution with state-of-the-art computational approaches to drug major disease pathways.

In this position, you will be working in an exciting, innovative environment. We are looking for someone to be responsible for developing and implementing cohesive automation platforms for the integration of high-throughput chemistry and drug screening workflows utilizing robotic liquid handling and assay readout platforms. The ideal candidate is a team-player who possesses both experience with translating scientific needs to automated workflows and a deep appreciation for interdisciplinary collaboration.

Primary responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of new protocols for lab instrumentation and robotic platforms.
• Adapt in vitro assays to automated protocols
• Run protocols that produce Chemotype Evolution libraries
• Oversee automation instrument maintenance and troubleshooting to maximize operation uptime, and serve as main interface with service engineers
• Evaluate and implement new enabling technologies and provide solutions that improve throughput
• Train scientists in our technology, biology and chemistry groups, and provide guidance for troubleshooting protocols
• This position provides opportunities for group management and project leadership

Required experience and skills

• BS (+12 yrs), or MS (+10 yrs), or PhD and relevant industry experience with drug discovery, high-throughput screening, or related field
• Experience with a wide variety of lab instrumentation especially liquid handlers, robotic platforms and scheduling software
• Proficiency in programming for automation, robotics, and integration across diverse platforms
• Ability to design user friendly data management tools to aid in easy experimental setup would be a plus

Carmot Therapeutics, Inc. is “spinning-off” its technology platform to newly-formed Kimia Therapeutics. The Chemotype Evolution platform enables rapid synthesis and screening of target-focused chemical libraries, thereby providing relevant, information-rich datasets ideally suited for machine learning. Kimia Therapeutics is building a next generation drug discovery engine by combining Chemotype Evolution with state-of-the-art computational approaches to accelerate drug discovery for challenging targets implicated in cancer and immunological disorders.

Kimia offers competitive pay, participation in our stock option plan, and comprehensive benefits.  This position is located in Berkeley, CA.  To apply, please forward your resume and contact information to careers@kimiatx.com and include “DiscoTech A02” in the subject line. Carmot and Kimia are equal opportunity employers.