What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scientist/Senior Scientist, Biology position at Ormoni Biosciences?
About Ormoni
Ormoni is an intelligent drug design company. Our aims are threefold :
1. generate training-scale polypeptide drug activity data;
2. train our foundation drug model, OPM, to design first-in-class and best-in-class therapies;
3. develop these therapies at an unprecedented pace to help patients in need.
We integrate megascale sequence-activity data generation with gigascale evolutionary sequence-structure maps to train the Ormoni Polypeptide Model for comprehensive drug design. In doing so, Ormoni collapses the billion-dollar, decade-long drug development process into discrete, rapid computational cycles, enabling better therapies, with faster development, for more patients.
The Role
Ormoni is seeking a (Senior) Scientist – Biology to develop cell-based and in vivo assays for functional screening, hit identification, and lead optimization of therapeutic polypeptides. This individual will play a key role in establishing and advancing our biological research capabilities, collaborating closely with our chemistry and machine learning teams to generate high-quality training data for AI-driven drug discovery. The scientist will drive experimental design and execution, leveraging high-throughput approaches to accelerate our platform and lead programs.
This will be a key role on a small team at a seed-stage biotechnology company, with significant opportunities for impact and innovation. The successful candidate will have a record of using creative approaches to solve hard problems. We are open to a range of experience levels and excited about bringing in team members with expertise that reaches across scientific functions.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish cell biology and in vivo research capabilities at Ormoni.
- Design, plan, and execute cell-based studies to evaluate the activity of candidate therapeutic polypeptides.
- Conduct in vitro binding and enrichment for affinity enrichment mass spectrometry experiments.
- Design and lead execution of in vivo studies to examine PK and ADME properties of polypeptides
- Integrate biological data into AI / ML workflows to rapidly iterate libraries and candidate molecules.
- Identify therapeutic opportunities, then plan and execute drug campaigns.
Qualifications
Required :
Preferred :
Ormoni is looking for people who are excited about building from the ground up as part of a small and growing team. We are an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to creating a workplace free of harassment and discrimination. We do not discriminate based on race, gender, religion, beliefs, age, family or parental status, or any other status.