Research Associate, Antibody Lead Optimization

Who We Are

Vial's vision is to empower scientists to cure all human disease. Vial was founded on a mission to

reimagine clinical trials and deliver faster and more efficient trials for sponsors. Through our end to end technology platform, we are delivering on a generational opportunity to make trials radically more efficient.

Vial’s co-founders (Simon Burns and Andrew Brackin) were early team members at $1B+ startups Robinhood, Opendoor and Newfront. Our early team is made up of experienced technology and operations leaders from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Faire, Chime and other leading technology companies.

Vial was founded in Oct 2020 and has grown the team to over 100 across the business. Come join us on our adventure to reimagine clinical trials.

Overview

We are on a mission to empower scientists to cure all human diseases.

Vial has developed technology to dramatically reduce the cost of clinical trials and is already running multiple trials. Now, we are building a world-class team of scientists and engineers to completely reshape drug discovery with this new reality of clinical trials cost. As one of the pioneering members of this organization, you will play a meaningful role in building a team that embodies an inspiring, collaborative and entrepreneurial culture. Our mission is build drug discovery engine that will bring an order of magnitude more drugs to market than any other drug discovery company.

Key Responsibilities

• Work in a structure-based computationally driven drug discovery paradigm
• Iteratively scale, rethink, and collaborate on a drug discovery engine that will scale to hundreds of programs
• Work with other scientists, clinicians, computational biologists, project managers, and external partners to accomplish our mission of curing diseases

What You'll Bring

• 3-5 years of experience in Antibody discovery/program development or roles directly related to the Research & Development of antibody programs
• Deeply analytical, systems thinker, focused on finding scalable solutions
• Entrepreneurial mindset, experience in startup environment preferred a plus
• Work in our systems (Natural Antibody, internal tools and other computational bio tools for discovery) to design systems and scale programs

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Why You’ll Love Working At Vial

We are innately curious. We found our calling in clinical trials after learning the pain points directly. It is our curiosity that propels us to keep building, finding new challenges, and fulfilling our vision of reimagining clinical trials.

We believe in autonomy . Team members do their best work when given autonomy. In order to make an impact on the scale of the Vial vision, we built our culture to enable each Vial team member to feel ownership of their domain.

We take pride in building mastery. We believe in building master in a craft. Craftsmanship, a pride in one’s craft, is key to prolonged engagement on a difficult challenge. Vial’s culture is one of highly autonomous, deeply focused experts working on an immensely hard problem together.

Our strength is moving fast and staying humble. We believe that if we build a team that is intellectually honest, that we stay nimble and keep an open mind to all solutions - we’ll be adaptive and solve the problems that face us at every turn.

Benefits

Competitive Equity Compensation

Health, Dental, and Vision

Remote-First

Paid Parental Leave

Unlimited Vacation