Research Scientist (Multiple Positions)

Responsibilities

About ByteDance
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve.
Join us.

About the Team
Our team plays a crucial role in ensuring the company’s success. We seek people who are willing to learn and put in the effort to solve problems. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day problems - you’ll be part of a team that’s developing new solutions to new challenges. It’s working fast, at scale, and we’re making a difference. We are looking for talents to join us on this exciting journey!

Responsibilities
Build, optimize, and maintain models, algorithms, and/or simulations for complex chemical computations, formulations research and development, and machine learning techniques.
Assist ByteDance’s Scientific Computing team in solving problems and creating simulations requiring large datasets by understanding the underlying principles of a simulation, optimization, or other calculation to set up the conditions and parameters of their study.
Solve queries with computational approaches such as molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, and machine learning.
Optimize and speed up classical molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry algorithms with artificial intelligence and high-throughput computational methods.
Develop computer models and simulations of chemical and biochemical processes and entities.
Perform and interpret quantitative analysis of large datasets.
Partner with cross-functional team to design, optimize, and accelerate the creation and analysis of models and predictions focusing on computational chemistry modeling, informatics, and structural biology aspects.

Qualifications

Qualifications
PhD degree in Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering (any), Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field, and 1 year of research or work experience; or a Master’s degree in Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering (any), Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field, and 3 years of research or work experience.

Must have 1 year of research or work experience in the following skills:
Simulating protein-drug molecule interactions using molecular dynamics simulations and applying virtual docking techniques to facilitate computer-aided drug design;
Providing scientific support and/or advice to cross-disciplinary research projects using Cheminformatics techniques including molecular fingerprint representation, molecular surface extraction, and molecular graph convolution;
Developing python-based rotation-translational equivariant neural networks to model molecular interactions in 3D Euclidean space;
Processing large-scale biological and chemical databases using Python scripts to extract molecular descriptors for statistical analysis; and
Preparing technical documentation, including technical proposals, patents, or publishing conference or journal papers.

Type: Full time, 40 hours/week
Location: Bellevue, WA
Salary Range: $150987 - $237500 per year

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ByteDance Inc. is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At Bytedance, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

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