Junior structural biologist

Pay in the destination countries

Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.

What does the day look like?

Working hours run 38 to 40 hours per week in industry and 40 to 50 hours per week in academic research labs. There are no shift patterns or formal on-call duties; high-performance computing (HPC) jobs run unattended 24 hours a day on Slurm clusters. About 35% of the day goes to running molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, protein-ligand docking, and mechanics calculations using tools like GROMACS, AMBER, or OpenMM. Another 25% is spent cleaning coordinates from PDB and mmCIF files, fixing missing loops, and verifying protonation states. Developing automation pipelines in Python (BioPython, RDKit, MDAnalysis) and running AlphaFold or ColabFold models takes 20% of the time, while 15% involves preparing slides and visualizing binding sites in PyMOL or ChimeraX for medicinal chemists, and 5% goes to managing HPC jobs.

The visual part people imagine — rotating shiny 3D protein structures on screen and inspecting binding pockets — is only 15% of the day. The remaining 85% is the unglamorous reality of Linux command lines, debugging Python tracebacks, formatting malformed PDB files, and waiting in HPC queues.

Where does this lead?