UX/UI Design Intern

About Valence

Valence is building the world’s most powerful chemistry engine, unlocking new therapeutic options for previously intractable diseases. 

Valence is spun out of Mila, the world’s largest deep learning research institute, and we maintain close ties with world class scientists such as Prof. Yoshua Bengio, who we count among our scientific advisors. You can find a subset of our work in top journals and conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, and ACS.

We have developed the world’s only AI technologies for low/no data drug design, allowing us to very efficiently transfer existing knowledge of drug-target interactions to new regions of biological and chemical space, even in situations where data may be small, sparse, or nonexistent. With support from some of Canada’s top investors, our team currently consists of software engineers, machine learning engineers, deep learning specialists, bioinformaticians, computational biologists and molecular biologists. We also work closely with leading research institutions and pharmaceutical companies, and currently have multiple programs underway in oncology, central nervous system diseases, and more. 

We believe that every new medicine will soon be designed and optimized using AI, unlocking faster iteration and ultimately more efficacious medicines for a broader and more diverse set of patients. Valence is building the platform to make this future a reality. 

About the UI/UX Designer role:

Valence is looking for a talented UI/UX Designer to help us design better experiences for our partners that use our molecular property prediction platform, the kernel app. In this role, we expect the intern to contribute to our design thinking process and improve on our platform:

• You will work closely with our engineering and platform team to create compelling and interactive user experiences for our partners. You’ll gain insights into various project objectives and partner businesses. 

• You will perform user research and create user goals, journey maps while designing wireframes and visual interfaces

• You will collaborate with the engineering and platform team to execute on project deliverables

The UI/UX designer intern will play a key role in improving the user experience for our platform so that we can continuously improve our platform.

Ideal candidates for this role:

• You are able to thrive and stay organized in a fast-past environment with the ambiguity that comes from working at a venture backed seed stage startup

• You have strong attention to detail 

• You are able to collaborate and can work well with cross-functional teams

• You are knowledgeable about user centered design methodologies 

• You are deeply curious and have a drive to learn more about the ways in which we can apply various computational methods to drug design

• You are excited by product design and the intersection between machine learning and life sciences

• You can create design artifacts (i.e. wireframes, mockups, blueprints, journey maps, prototypes, etc.) to communicate concepts, interactions and user flows

• You have experience with Figma, Sketch or the Adobe Creative Suite

What we offer at Valence:

• The opportunity to work at the cutting-edge of AI-enabled drug design

• An innovation-driven culture that puts science at the forefront of everything we do

• A dynamic, diverse, and inclusive team of experienced and interdisciplinary scientists applying their skills to some of the most impactful problems in human health

• Regular exposure to several of the world’s leading machine learning researchers

• Competitive salary 

• Weekly team lunches, team game nights, socials and retreats

Valence is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage any candidates meeting our stated criteria to apply.