Spring Machine Learning Co-Op / Internship, Medicinal Chemistry (Drug Discovery)

Title : Spring Machine Learning Co-Op / Internship

Location : Downtown Boston, MA (on-site 4 days / week)

Duration : January-June 2026

Hourly Rate : $25-$35 / hr, dependent on experience

Weekly Hours : 30-40 hours / week

Job Summary :

Antares Therapeutics is seeking a highly motivated machine learning co-op student to join the Discovery Predictive Sciences team for the spring semester of 2026. The Discovery Predictive Sciences team is tightly integrated with drug discovery project teams, and bridges machine learning, medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry, and protein and structural sciences. The successful candidate will work with ML scientists to develop and implement new machine learning methods that will advance drug discovery efforts in medicinal chemistry.

Key Responsibilities :

• Implement state-of-the-art graph neural network (GNN) and transformer models from recently published literature.
• Benchmark model performance on in-house molecular property prediction tasks (primarily ADME).
• Design novel ML architectures and methods.

Basic Requirements :

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