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Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

The DNA-encoded Library (DEL) platform group at AbbVie Headquarters in Lake County, Illinois, is seeking a highly talented and motivated scientist to enhance our in-house DEL data computational and analysis capabilities to support our drug discovery efforts in the Small Molecule Therapeutics and Platform Technologies (SMTPT) department. The individual will work collaboratively with cross-function software engineering, hardware support, and cheminformatics teams to leverage technical expertise to drive our DEL informatics pipeline. The successful candidate should possess strong communication and leadership skills and is expected to contribute to drug discovery projects across the therapeutic area portfolio of AbbVie interests.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for developing workflows and coordinating engineering efforts across functions to implement advanced computational tools for DEL platform.

• Drive developments of new computational tools and methodologies (e.g., machine learning models, data exploration and visualization) to strengthen our DEL data analysis platform. Serve as a key contributor to synergize computational efforts across teams designing and screening DNA-encoded libraries.

• Contribute to DEL infrastructure improvements, prospecting relevant state-of-the-art computational tools / software applications through internal and external collaborations.

• Create effective cross-functional relationships in a matrix environment.

• Provide DEL informatics expertise, updates on project status, and recommendations to our leadership.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, or related discipline with 2+ years industrial experience or master’s degree with 8+ years of experience in the Drug Discovery industry

• Experience in design and implementation of engineering solutions applied to Drug Discovery projects required.

• Experience in data mining, statistical analysis of large data sets

• Expertise with scripting languages and machine learning methodologies is desirable.

• Experience in DEL technology is a plus.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, strong organizational skills with attention to detail

• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills to work in a team-oriented, matrix environment

• Motivated, independent, creative, and productive problem solver with a proven ability to advance new scientific concepts

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.