Ex-OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil's Warp Sciences hiring to build robot-run autonomous drug discovery lab
gabepgomes · x · 2026-10-23
Warp Sciences, the startup fronted by former OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil, is hiring for 8 roles in South San Francisco to build an autonomous lab where robots run chemistry experiments. The team will train frontier scientific AI models for retrosynthesis and chemical property prediction using RL environments and proprietary experimental data, aiming to speed up drug discovery.
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