Solutions Architect

Summary

Join Schrödinger as a Solutions Architect and contribute to improving human health through advanced computational methods. As a member of the Enterprise Informatics team, you will collaborate with customers, scientists, and developers. You will deploy, configure, and tune molecular modeling applications, maintain scientific computing resources, and act as the voice of the customer with Product Managers. This remote role, based in Illinois (preferably Chicago), requires expertise in cloud computing, web applications, data management, and GPU computing. The ideal candidate is a problem-solver with excellent communication skills and a willingness to learn.

Requirements

• Extensive experience with Kubernetes technologies on major cloud providers (GCP or AWS)
• Significant research data management background in the pharmaceutical industry (or similar scientific data space)
• Robust Linux experience (and proficiency in a scripting language like bash or Python)
• An interest in life sciences and/or physics (a formal academic background in the classical sciences is a plus!)

Responsibilities

• Ensure that our enterprise software performs optimally in the customer cloud environments
• Implement optimal deployment strategies and solutions for integration with customer internal systems and technologies
• Help customers solve thorny technical issues by cooperatively building creative, customized solutions
• Work closely with customers on installation, configuration, and update/maintenance of cloud-hosted software and infrastructure deployments
• Collaborate with product managers, scientists, and software developers to improve the deployment, support, and configuration aspects of our applications

Preferred Qualifications

• A significant background in research informatics involving scientific data
• Clear grasp of Networking concepts (e.g,. DNS, routing, firewalls,VPCs, NAT gateways)
• A greater-than-end-user's understanding of HPC systems
• Willingness for occasional travel to Schrödinger's offices and customer sites within the US

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options
• Healthcare (with dental and vision)
• 401k
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Flexible work schedule
• Parental leave program
• Catered meals in the office every day
• Over a month of paid vacation time