About this opportunity
Confidential lists this Preclinical R&D Scientist, ADC and Bispecifics opportunity in Jollyville, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Role Overview
Apply hands-on preclinical drug development experience to help shape AI models for chemistry, materials science, and drug discovery. This role combines wet-lab and translational expertise with scientific data review, helping intelligent systems reason about real-world pharmaceutical R&D across antibody-drug conjugate and bispecific antibody programs.
Key Responsibilities
Review technical materials and real-world R&D data related to ADC and/or bispecific programs.
Label, classify, and annotate scientific data and model outputs to improve model performance.
Provide scientific input on target and modality selection, optimization, trade-offs, and development risks.
Help establish structure and quality standards for the dataset pipeline.
Participate in expert discussions, interviews, and research engagements.
Work directly with the client team.
Qualifications
Hands-on, non-administrative preclinical R&D experience at a company that develops its own drug assets in-house and has advanced programs to the clinic.
Direct experience with ADCs and/or bispecific or multispecific antibodies.
Experience in a core R&D function, including discovery biology, medicinal chemistry, protein or antibody engineering, computational research, in vivo or translational research, pharmacology or PK-PD, toxicology, or CMC or formulation.
5+ years of relevant industry R&D experience, with flexibility based on depth of experience.
Experience advancing a program through lead optimization or IND-enabling or preclinical development is preferred.
Experience at a mid-sized, emerging, or resource-constrained biotech is preferred, particularly for candidates currently outside the top 20 pharmaceutical companies.
Individual contributors through Director-level professionals are welcome.
Role Fit
This opportunity is intended for hands-on preclinical R&D professionals. It is generally not suited to candidates whose experience is primarily in CRO or CDMO services, academia only, QC or analytical work only, clinical development only, diagnostics, or regulatory or medical writing.
Work Terms
Remote, hourly engagement.
Ongoing, part-time commitment of approximately 10 hours per week.
Compensation
$60 to $100 per hour.
Who can apply
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