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Role Descriptions: Cheminformatics & Python Solutions DeveloperOrganization: Pfizer Research & DevelopmentBusiness Area: Molecules & Assays SolutionsWork Arrangement: Hybrid / role-dependentEmployment Level: To be finalizedRole SummaryPfizer is seeking a professional who combines strong Python development capability with chemistry domain expertise to support molecular research, chemistry data management, and digital transformation initiatives. The successful candidate will develop scientific software and automate chemistry workflows while helping curate, standardize, validate, and modify chemical structures and associated molecular data.Key ResponsibilitiesChemistry Data Curation & Structure Management Curate, validate, and maintain chemical structure data used across research platforms and scientific workflows. Perform structure standardization and normalization, including salt or solvent handling, valence checks, charge normalization, tautomer treatment, stereochemistry review, and duplicate identification. Support compound registration, structure correction, structure modification, and molecular metadata management. Investigate and resolve data-quality issues in collaboration with medicinal chemists, computational scientists, and informatics teams. Define and apply repeatable quality-control rules for chemistry datasets used in analytics and AI/ML initiatives.Python Development & Automation Design and develop Python-based applications, APIs, libraries, and automated workflows for chemistry and scientific data processes. Build scalable pipelines for structure ingestion, transformation, validation, standardization, and export. Integrate chemistry platforms, scientific databases, and enterprise or cloud services using APIs and data-integration patterns. Write modular, tested, maintainable code and contribute to code reviews, documentation, release practices, and production support. Create scientist-friendly utilities, notebooks, or lightweight interfaces that reduce manual curation effort and improve traceability.Cheminformatics & Scientific Computing Use cheminformatics toolkits such as RDKit, ChemAxon, or equivalent technologies for molecular analysis and structure processing. Develop capabilities for substructure and similarity search, scaffold analysis, descriptor calculation, compound clustering, and molecular property computation. Apply chemistry knowledge to ensure software outputs are scientifically meaningful and fit for use. Contribute to data preparation and feature-generation workflows supporting predictive modeling, molecular design, and AI-enabled research.Stakeholder Collaboration & Delivery Partner with chemists, informaticians, data scientists, product owners, and software engineers to translate scientific needs into technical solutions. Participate in solution design, estimation, development, testing, validation, deployment, and operational support. Communicate technical deci
Essential Skills: Cheminformatics & Python Solutions DeveloperOrganization: Pfizer Research & DevelopmentBusiness Area: Molecules & Assays SolutionsWork Arrangement: Hybrid / role-dependentEmployment Level: To be finalizedRole SummaryPfizer is seeking a professional who combines strong Python development capability with chemistry domain expertise to support molecular research, chemistry data management, and digital transformation initiatives. The successful candidate will develop scientific software and automate chemistry workflows while helping curate, standardize, validate, and modify chemical structures and associated molecular data.Key ResponsibilitiesChemistry Data Curation & Structure Management Curate, validate, and maintain chemical structure data used across research platforms and scientific workflows. Perform structure standardization and normalization, including salt or solvent handling, valence checks, charge normalization, tautomer treatment, stereochemistry review, and duplicate identification. Support compound registration