What is Drug Discovery and how common is it in AI job postings?

Drug Discovery is a skill in the "Applied ML Domains" category. It currently appears in 43 active AI roles across 16 companies in our index.

Which companies are hiring for Drug Discovery?

The top employers with active AI roles mentioning Drug Discovery are: NVIDIA (6), Pfizer (5), Merck (5), Lila Sciences (4), Meta (3).

Is demand for Drug Discovery growing?

Over the last 11 weeks, 34 new AI postings mentioned Drug Discovery. Demand is rising — up 171% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.

At which stage of AI development is Drug Discovery used?

Roles requiring Drug Discovery are concentrated in: post-training (35%), agents (30%), application (12%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.

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Drug Discovery

43 active AI roles across 16 companies mention Drug Discovery. Category: Applied ML Domains.

Top employers

NVIDIA6Semiconductors Pfizer5Pharma Merck5Pharma Lila Sciences4AI Frontier Meta3Big Tech Iambic3Pharma Celonis3Data AI Tempus AI2Vertical AI OpenAI2AI Frontier Microsoft2Big Tech Johnson & Johnson2Pharma Anthropic2AI Frontier Walmart1Retail Fireworks AI1Data AI Weights & Biases1Data AI Amazon1Big Tech

Demand trend

New AI postings mentioning Drug Discovery per week — 34 total over 11 weeks.

Sector

All Pharma · 18 Big Tech · 8 AI Frontier · 8 Semiconductors · 6 Data AI · 5 Vertical AI · 2 Retail · 1

Function

All Research · 24 Engineering · 17 Product · 7

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12 AI roles requiring this skill.

Company	Title	Sector	AI score	Stage
Johnson & Johnson	Postdoctoral Data Analytics Computational Sciences	Pharma	9	L2
Johnson & Johnson	Senior Scientist, AI Applications - R&D Immunology Data Science & Digital Health	Pharma	9	L4
Iambic	Machine Learning Scientist — Large multimodal models	Pharma	9	L2
Johnson & Johnson	Senior Scientist, AI Applications - R&D Oncology	Pharma	9	L4
Merck	Associate Director, Data Science	Pharma	8	L2
Merck	Associate Director, Data Science	Pharma	8	L2
Johnson & Johnson	Postdoctoral Data Analytics Computational Sciences	Pharma	8	L2
Merck	Sr. Manager, MCICC	Pharma	8	L2
Merck	Senior Scientist/Senior Data Scientist, Talent Accelerator Program	Pharma	7	L0
Iambic	Research Scientist II/Senior, Discovery Machine Learning	Pharma	7	L2
Pfizer	Postdoctoral Scientist – AI & Machine Learning for Predictive Drug Absorption	Pharma	7	L2
Johnson & Johnson	Director, Data Science and Digital Health - Hematology, Oncology	Pharma	7	L0

Frequently asked questions

What is Drug Discovery and how common is it in AI job postings?
Drug Discovery is a skill in the "Applied ML Domains" category. It currently appears in 43 active AI roles across 16 companies in our index.
Which companies are hiring for Drug Discovery?
The top employers with active AI roles mentioning Drug Discovery are: NVIDIA (6), Pfizer (5), Merck (5), Lila Sciences (4), Meta (3).
Is demand for Drug Discovery growing?
Over the last 11 weeks, 34 new AI postings mentioned Drug Discovery. Demand is rising — up 171% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.
At which stage of AI development is Drug Discovery used?
Roles requiring Drug Discovery are concentrated in: post-training (35%), agents (30%), application (12%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.