ML Research Scientist, Co-Folding and Affinity

ABOUT SANDBOXAQ SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors. We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders. At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact. THE OPPORTUNITY The AI Sim R&D team creates leading edge ML and physics-based models ("LQMs") to advance drug and materials discovery. We are a flexible, creative, and impact driven team of multidisciplinary scientists and engineers, whose products dramatically accelerate the creation of molecules and medicines. As a Research Scientist focusing on Co-Folding & Affinity, you will contribute to building SandboxAQ's next generation of structure prediction and binding affinity models. Working alongside a high-performing team of scientists and engineers, you will help advance the state-of-the-art in protein-ligand co-folding, translating cutting-edge research into scalable workflows that power our drug discovery software. This is an opportunity to do frontier science with real-world impact — developing models that redefine what's possible in computational drug discovery. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Develop and Iterate on Co-Folding Models: Implement, experiment with, and refine deep