Data Scientist Antibody Discovery

Position

Europe

Data Scientist Antibody Discovery

MindWalk is a global biologics discovery company integrating Bio-native AI, deep data, and advanced lab research to accelerate discovery and development of therapeutic, anti-drug and diagnostic antibodies, peptide-based therapies, vaccines and beyond. We deliver end-to-end solutions spanning target exploration, discovery, engineering, characterization, production, and humanization—available as full-service partnerships, existing asset co-development or modular SaaS access. We partner with leading biotech and pharmaceutical organizations, applying our unified biointelligence ecosystem to advance next-generation biologics that improve lives.

Job Description:

At MindWalk , data scientists are the heart of our organisation. You have an active role in the development and deployment of new in silico predictive models for antibody discovery. You i dentify and engineer key attributes of therapeutic antibodies, including in silico affinity modulation and mitigation of sequence liabilities . You collaborate with colleagues across the sites in Belgium and Canada, a large interdisciplinary team of scientists and program leaders, to ensure continuous integration of in silico and wet-lab knowledge. At MindWalk, y ou will be part of the Data Science team and work in close collaboration with the Software and Front-End team. Together with the CTO, you will make up a roadmap with a set of deliverables.

Key responsibilities:

• You identify and engineer key attributes of therapeutic antibodies, including in silico affinity modulation and mitigation of sequence liabilities.
• You collaborate with colleagues across the sites in Belgium and Canada, a large interdisciplinary team of scientists and program leaders, to ensure continuous integration of in silico and wet-lab knowledge.
• Together with the CTO, you will make up a roadmap with a set of deliverables.

Requirements:

• Education: You are an expert in structural biology and antibody discovery and engineering. You have a PhD Degree in that domain and preferably some years of experience working in antibody discovery within Pharma and Biotech.
• You have practical knowledge of various machine learning techniques, preferably deep learning, including graph neural networks (GNNs), clustering and feature engineering.
• You speak Python and have used a number of data science specific packages.
• You are able to advise, deploy, configure and automate the most suitable AWS service (using terraform);
• You have a strong interest in bioinformatics applications, cloud computing and are skilled in data visualization.
• In our team we go off the beaten track every day and nothing we come up with is standard. You have to be a strategic and creative thinker. You work efficiently, are a real team player and deliver high-quality results on time.
• You have good written and oral communication skills in English.
• In our team we go off the beaten track every day and nothing we come up with is standard. You have to be a strategic and creative thinker. You work efficiently, are a real team player and deliver high-quality results on time.