Founding Scientist

Location: Zurich - remote, hybrid or relocation.

Have you ever wanted to take full ownership of a drug discovery programme, from initial idea through to first in human?

This is an opportunity to join a venture-backed, AI native biotech at the earliest stage and play a central role in shaping how programmes are built, prioritised and advanced. You will not be inheriting a function. You will be helping define it.

About the company

Our client is building a new type of biotech. A small, high agency team focused on developing novel therapies for diseases with limited treatment options, using a combination of modern AI-enabled biology and a highly leveraged external model.

Rather than scaling large internal teams, they partner with best-in-class computational and wet lab CROs, allowing them to run multiple programmes in parallel while staying lean and focused. The foundin...