**Description:

Pangea Botanica brings the platform business model of company building to 
nature-inspired drug discovery and development, with a higher likelihood of 
success and reduced timeline in developing new medicines for patients. 
We optimise our success rate and development time by focusing on 
nature-inspired compounds with prior evidence of safety and efficacy

 
Pangea has the ability to execute and deliver, with a scalable platform 
operating model and an experienced team.

Founded in 2021, our decentralised platform already comprises four drug 
development operating companies targeting auto-immune, psychiatric, 
neurodegenerative and neurological indications, complemented by our 
proprietary PangeAI discovery engine.

Our team has a track record of building companies around natural products 
and biotech platforms, at COMPASS Pathways (Nasdaq: CMPS); 
GW Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Jazz Pharmaceuticals); and 
atai Life Sciences (Nasdaq: ATAI).
 

Pangea is committed to preserving ethnobotanical knowledge and habitats, 
and supporting the communities from which our compounds are derived. 
We are applying for B Corp certification.

** Location: Berlin or London/Hybrid
 
** Roles and responsibilities

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

- Design, develop and implement robust data processing workflows and 
storage environments
- Collaborate with both our scientific & tech teams to provide 
chem-/bioinformatics expertise, including on data collection and 
standardization, database structure, workflow development, algorithmic 
design, data analysis, and visualization
- Work hand in hand with a machine learning engineer to implement these 
core algorithms into our technology platform; build and supervise a team of
data scientists over time
- Coordinate and perform data analysis efforts on different projects; 
communicate results to diverse audiences, including project teams, 
collaborators, and customers
- Use good programming practices, documentation and reproducible research.
- Dissemination of results, where appropriate, in the form of conference presentations and research articles
Stay abreast with new technological advancements and analyze them for potential inclusion in our platform
 

** Required experience and skills


- Qualification: Advanced Degree in Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, 
Computational Biology, Computational Chemistry, Biotechnology, Data Science,
or related discipline
- 3-5+ years relevant experience handling & analyzing chemical and 
biological data in academia or industry
- Experience with building large chemical databases associated with 
bioactivity data and other biological endpoints
- Familiarity with SQL, Python, scikit-learn; chemical toolkits (e.g. RDKit);
chemical workflow environments(particularly KNIME); and chemical cartridges
- Software development experience, familiarity with version control tools, and reproducible research practices
- Strong oral & written communication skills in English
 

This is an opportunity to join a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment, 
where you will have a significant influence on company strategy and 
performance.

The compensation package will include base salary, benefits and equity 
options, so you will get immediate exposure to and benefit from Pangeas 
success.

If interested, please apply via this link to our Bamboo HR system:

https://pangeabotanica.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=34

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure
that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the 
grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, 
marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements 
which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

 
Please note:  We are not accepting submissions from Recruitment Agencies 
for this position  any candidates submitted will not be accepted by or on 
behalf of Pangea Botanica.