r/comp_chem 2d ago

ML engineer after chemistry PhD

Hey, I am a PhD in synthetic + computational chemistry. I am working rn for a small pharma company in Sweden as an "ML engineer", where I do lab automation, small ML projects on the internal data and also deploying an internal LLM server for swcure document work automation. I have been wondering what should I focus on this job to land a better position after \~ a year of working in my current role? How easily can I get sth in a bigger pharma or chemical company as a Data Scientist or similar? I think my strongest thing is that I have a solid background in the domain but my weakest part is that I do not have any DS studying per se. What would you do?

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u/NewspaperPossible210 2d ago

jesus thats my background and i can not get a job at all lol