ZipRecruiter

Log In

1

Drug Discovery Scientist Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Transcripta Bio

Scientist, Drug Discovery

Palo Alto, CA · On-site

We are looking for a Scientist to become a cornerstone of our drug discovery operations. You will own key areas of our experimental platform - from cell culture and high-throughput drug screening to ...

Transcripta Bio

Scientist, Drug Discovery

Palo Alto, CA · On-site

$120 - $180/hr

We are looking for a Scientist to become a cornerstone of our drug discovery operations. You will own key areas of our experimental platform -- from cell culture and high-throughput drug screening to ...

MSD

Principal Scientist, Drug Discovery

Rahway, NJ · On-site

Purpose of the Role The Principal Scientist, Drug Discovery in our Research and Development Department will be responsible for identifying new molecular entities and technologies for use in animal ...

MSD Malaysia

$170 - $267/hr

The Principal Scientist, Drug Discovery in our Research and Development Department will be responsible for identifying new molecular entities and technologies for use in animal health from our ...

New

next page

Showing results 1-20

All JobsHealthcare JobsMedical Specialists JobsClinical Pharmacist JobsDrug Discovery Scientist Jobs

Drug Discovery Scientist information

What is the difference between Drug Discovery Scientist vs Pharmacologist?

AspectDrug Discovery ScientistPharmacologist
Required CredentialsBachelor's or Master's in Chemistry, Biology, or related fields; PhD often preferredBachelor's or Master's in Pharmacology, Medicine, or related fields; PhD common
Work EnvironmentResearch labs, pharmaceutical companies, biotech firmsResearch institutions, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare settings
Industry UsageDevelops new drugs, conducts early-stage researchStudies drug effects, mechanisms, and interactions in biological systems

While both roles involve understanding drugs, a Drug Discovery Scientist focuses on developing new compounds and early-stage research, whereas a Pharmacologist studies how drugs affect biological systems. Both careers require strong scientific backgrounds and often overlap in pharmaceutical settings, but their primary goals differ: creation versus understanding of drug effects.

More about Drug Discovery Scientist jobs

What cities are hiring for Drug Discovery Scientist jobs?

Cities with the most Drug Discovery Scientist job openings:

What states have the most Drug Discovery Scientist jobs?

States with the most job openings for Drug Discovery Scientist jobs include:

What job categories do people searching Drug Discovery Scientist jobs look for?

The top searched job categories for Drug Discovery Scientist jobs are:

Drug Discovery Scientist jobs near you
Infographic showing various Drug Discovery Scientist job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 76% Full Time, 20% Part Time, 2% Contract, and 1% Nights. Highlights an 96% Physical, 1% Hybrid, and 3% Remote job distribution.

Drug Discovery Scientist & Engineer

Mirror Physics Corporation

New York, NY • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO

Posted 4 days ago

Job description

The Company
Mirror is an NYC-based startup building the AI stack for modern drug discovery. We develop agents that give scientists the leverage to explore, test, and advance new medicines faster and at lower cost. Our platform focuses on bridging the gap between frontier model capabilities and the practical challenges faced by biologists and chemists across the preclinical pipeline to dramatically accelerate scientists' daily work, without sacrificing transparency, control, or data security. By compounding advancements in agent performance, efficiency, and reliability, we're paving the way toward transforming therapeutics development and unlocking a new era of human health.
What We Offer
  • Competitive salary + meaningful equity
  • Full health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
  • Personal fitness budget
  • Unlimited PTO and all national holidays
Location & Work Model
We expect you to get things done, whatever it takes. We're typically in-office. Visa sponsorship is available.
Equal Opportunity
Mirror is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our employees.
The Opportunity
AI for drug discovery is only useful when it reflects how drug programs are actually run. Product quality depends on scientific judgment: understanding which evidence matters, which constraints are real, where workflows fail, and what a trustworthy result looks like.
We're looking for a scientist with multiple years of industry experience in preclinical development who wants to turn their expertise into software. This is a hybrid scientist-builder role: you'll work closely with engineers, customers, and other domain experts to shape our platform, improve our agents, and establish the evaluations that hold them to a high scientific standard.
Why This Role
Deep specialization is essential to drug discovery. This role offers a chance to apply that depth differently-by building systems that make expert workflows repeatable and scalable-while developing breadth across modalities, therapeutic areas, and stages of preclinical development.
You'll learn directly from specialists and customers, translate that knowledge into products and evaluation systems, and help make high-quality scientific reasoning available at scale.
What You'll Do
  • Translate real preclinical workflows and scientific judgment into requirements for agent behavior, product features, tool integrations, and evaluations.
  • Work hands-on with engineering to prototype, test, diagnose, and improve agents across drug discovery tasks.
  • Design and run benchmarks, evaluations, and internal validation efforts that measure scientific quality, reliability, and usefulness.
  • Explore unfamiliar drug discovery domains; synthesize new methods, tools, and developments; and explain their implications to the team.
  • Work directly with current and prospective customers through discovery, education, product feedback, and commercial conversations.
  • Help set scientific product priorities and serve as a trusted domain expert across the company.
  • Help grow Mirror's drug discovery team.
What We're Looking For
  • Multiple years of hands-on preclinical development experience in biotechnology or pharmaceuticals.
  • Deep expertise in one or more areas of drug discovery, together with a strong working understanding of the broader therapeutics development pipeline and how cross-functional programs are planned, evaluated, and advanced.
  • An engineering mindset and foundational computational and software development skills, with familiarity with modern AI systems.
  • A record of learning unfamiliar scientific and technical domains quickly and turning new knowledge into practical decisions.
  • The ability to explain complex ideas clearly to scientific, technical, and commercial audiences.
  • Comfort working directly with customers and participating in product and commercial conversations.
  • Curiosity, intellectual honesty, strong ownership, and the ability to move quickly without compromising rigor.

Apply