Last Updated: February 11, 2026
Schrödinger, LLC and its corporate affiliates (collectively, “Schrödinger,” “Company,” “we,” or “us”) value your trust and are committed to the responsible management, use, and protection of Personal Information. This Applicant Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes our practices in connection with all the information that we collect through the Careers section of our website (“Careers Site”) and offline in connection with your application for a job or internship with Schrödinger. Personal information submitted elsewhere on Schrödinger’s websites will be used in accordance with our general online Privacy Policy.
Collection And Disclosure Of Personal Information
The following chart details which categories of Personal Information we collect and process, as well as which categories of Personal Information we disclose to third parties for our operational business and hiring and recruitment purposes, including within the 12 months preceding the date this Policy was last updated. See the “Disclosure and Transfer of Information” section below for more information on the listed categories of third parties.
| Categories of Personal Information | Disclosed to Which Categories of Third Parties |
|---|---|
| Identifiers, such as name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifiers, IP address that can reasonably be linked or associated with a particular California resident or household, email address, account name, online identifiers, and government-issued identifiers (e.g., Social Security number, driver’s license number) | Our affiliates; service providers that provide services such as recruiting, talent acquisition, employment screening and background checks, consulting, IT, and other services; professional advisors, such as lawyers; public and governmental authorities, such as regulatory authorities and law enforcement; business partners |
| Personal information as defined in the California customer records law, such as name, contact information, signature, Social Security number, passport number, financial, education and employment information, physical characteristics or description | |
| Protected Class Information, such as characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as sex, age, gender, race, disability, citizenship, medical conditions, military/veteran status, gender identity and expression, primary language, and immigration status | |
| Commercial Information, such as travel information and expenses |
| Categories of Personal Information | Disclosed to Which Categories of Third Parties |
|---|---|
| Internet or network activity information, such as access and usage information regarding our website or online application portal, timestamp information, and access and activity logs | Our affiliates; service providers that provide services such as IT and other services; professional advisors, such as lawyers; public and governmental authorities, such as regulatory authorities and law enforcement; business partners |
| Geolocation Data, such as approximate location of devices used to access our website or online application portal, derived from IP address | Our affiliates; service providers that provide services such as IT and other services; public and governmental authorities, such as regulatory authorities and law enforcement; business partners |
| Audio/Video Data. Audio, electronic, visual, and similar information, such as photographs and call and video recordings | Our affiliates; service providers that provide services such as recruiting, talent acquisition, employment screening and background checks, consulting, IT, and other services; professional advisors, such as lawyers; public and governmental authorities, such as regulatory authorities and law enforcement; business partners |
| Education Information subject to the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, such as degree received and confirmation of graduation | Our affiliates; service providers that provide services such as recruiting, talent acquisition, employment screening and background checks, consulting, IT, and other services; professional advisors, such as lawyers; public and governmental authorities, such as regulatory authorities and law enforcement; business partners |
| Employment Information. Professional or employment-related information, such as work history and prior employer, information from reference checks, work experience, qualifications, training and skills, work authorization, CV, résumé, cover letter, professional and other work-related licenses, permits, and certifications held, and publicly accessible information posted on your professional social media accounts | Our affiliates; service providers that provide services such as recruiting, talent acquisition, employment screening and background checks, consulting, IT, and other services; professional advisors, such as lawyers; public and governmental authorities, such as regulatory authorities and law enforcement; business partners |
| Sensitive Personal Information. Personal Information that reveals an individual’s account login; racial or ethnic origin, citizenship, immigration status, or union membership | Our affiliates; service providers that provide services such as recruiting, talent acquisition, employment screening and background checks, consulting, IT, and other services; professional advisors, such as lawyers; public and governmental authorities, such as regulatory authorities and law enforcement; business partners |
We do not “sell” or “share” your Personal Information, including your sensitive Personal Information, as defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“Sensitive Personal Information”). We have not engaged in such activities in the 12 months preceding the date this Policy was last updated. Without limiting the foregoing, we do not “sell” or “share” the Personal Information, including the Sensitive Personal Information, of minors under 16 years of age.
Purposes For The Collection, Use, And Disclosure Of Personal Information
The information that you submit on the Careers Site will be used for Schrödinger’s global personnel recruitment, management, and planning purposes, as permitted by applicable law:
- To process your application. We will engage in these activities to manage our prospective contractual relationship with you, based on our legitimate interests;
- To assess your capabilities and qualifications for a job. We will engage in these activities to manage our prospective contractual relationship with you, based on our legitimate interests;
- To conduct reference checks. We will engage in these activities to comply with a legal obligation or based on our legitimate interests;
- To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you about your application, and to send you information regarding the Careers Site and changes to our terms and policies. We will engage in these activities to manage our prospective contractual relationship with you;
- To comply with or monitor compliance with any applicable law or regulation. We will engage in these activities to comply with a legal obligation or based on our legitimate interests;
- To analyze and monitor the diversity of job applicants, in accordance with applicable law. We will engage in these activities to comply with a legal obligation or based on our legitimate interests;
- To conduct background checks if we offer you a position. We will engage in these activities to comply with a legal obligation or based on our legitimate interests;
- To preserve our other legitimate interests, for example, for Schrödinger’s administrative purposes, aggregate management reporting, internal training, and as generally required to conduct our business within Schrödinger;
- To comply with applicable law, respond to requests from public and government authorities, and cooperate with law enforcement. This can include laws and authorities outside your country of residence. We will engage in these activities to comply with a legal obligation or based on our legitimate interests;
- For other legal reasons, such as to enforce our terms and conditions; and to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others. We will engage in these activities to comply with a legal obligation or based on our legitimate interests; and
- In connection with a sale or business transaction. We have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your Personal Information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
With your authorization, the information about you will be added to Schrödinger’s international candidate database and can be retained and used to consider you for opportunities at Schrödinger other than the one(s) for which you apply. If you no longer wish to be considered, please contact us at the address in the
“Contact Us” section.
If we hire you, Personal Information we collect in connection with your application can be incorporated into our human resources information system and used to manage the new-hire process; any such information can become part of your employee file and used for other employment-related purposes.
Providing Personal Information to us through the Careers Site is voluntary. However, if you do not provide sufficient information, Schrödinger may not be able to consider your employment application or, if you are hired, your subsequent promotion, transfer, or relocation.
Purposes For The Collection, Use, And Disclosure Of Sensitive Personal Information
We will collect, use, and disclose sensitive Personal Information only where permitted by applicable law. Otherwise, we ask that you avoid submitting information that may qualify as sensitive information under applicable law, except where such information is legally required.
We collect, use, and disclose sensitive Personal Information for purposes of: performing services on behalf of our business; performing services and providing goods as requested by you; ensuring the quality or safety of services we control or improving those services; ensuring the security and integrity of our infrastructure and the individuals we interact with; short-term transient use; securing the access to, and use of, our facilities, equipment, systems, networks, applications, and infrastructure; preventing, detecting, and investigating security incidents; resisting and responding to fraud or illegal activities; and other collection and processing that is not for the purpose of inferring characteristics about an individual. We do not use or disclose sensitive Personal Information for additional purposes.
Transfer Of Information
Disclosing your Personal Information can include transferring Personal Information to other countries, including the United States or any other country in which we or our service providers have operations.
As required by applicable law, we implement safeguards to protect your Personal Information when we transfer it outside your country of residence. For example:
- For transfers from the EEA, the UK, and/or Switzerland: Some jurisdictions outside of the EEA/UK/Switzerland are recognized by the European Commission, the UK government, and/or the Swiss government as providing an adequate level of protection according to EEA/UK/Swiss standards: the list of the EEA’s adequate jurisdictions is available at https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/adequacy-decisions_en, the list of the UK’s adequate jurisdictions is available here, and the list of Switzerland’s adequate jurisdictions is available at https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/international-transfers/international-transfers-a-guide/#Q1. For transfers from the EEA, the UK, and/or Switzerland to countries not considered adequate by the European Commission, the UK government, or the Swiss government (as applicable), we have put in place adequate measures, such as standard contractual clauses adopted by the relevant authority, to protect your Personal Information. Employees in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland may obtain a copy of these measures by contacting us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.
Data Retention
We will retain Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods are: (i) the duration of the application process; (ii) as long as we have an ongoing relationship with you; (iii) as required by a legal obligation to which we are subject; and (iv) as advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard of applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).
We may remove Personal Information for inactive accounts from our database, subject to any applicable legal or regulatory obligations. Furthermore, Schrödinger can delete Personal Information about you (including your CV/résumé) from our database at any time and without providing any reason. Therefore, please retain your own copy of the Personal Information provided to us.
Sources Of Personal Information
We collect most of this Personal Information from you directly. Any information you submit through the Careers Site must be true, complete, and not misleading. Submitting inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading information may lead to a rejection of your application during the application process or disciplinary action including immediate termination of employment. In addition, it is your responsibility to ensure that information you submit does not violate any third party’s rights.
If you provide us with Personal Information of a reference or any other individual as part of your application, it is your responsibility to obtain consent from that individual prior to providing the information to us.
For the purpose of evaluating your application, and as permitted by applicable law, Schrödinger obtains information about you from other sources, including:
- Your references
- Prior employers
- Educational institutions you attended
- Details from your social media accounts, such as LinkedIn
Passive Information Collection: Cookies And Similar Technology
We and our service providers use “cookies” and similar technologies on the Careers Site. Please see our Cookie & Similar Technologies Policy and Cookie Management tool for more information.
Rights Requests
If you register on the Careers Site, you may access, review, and change your Personal Information stored therein by logging into the Careers Site and updating your account information. The updated profile will be used as the default the next time you apply for a job using your account online. To change Personal Information that you have already submitted for consideration for a specific position, please update your profile and resubmit your application for that position. We encourage you to promptly update your Personal Information if it changes or is inaccurate.
To the extent the right is provided to you by applicable law, you may request to:
- Review, confirm, access, correct, update, suppress, restrict, delete, or object to or opt out of the processing of your Personal Information.
- Obtain more information about the categories and specific pieces of Personal Information we collected, used, or disclosed, the sources for such Personal Information, the business and commercial purposes for which we collect Personal Information, and the third parties to whom it was disclosed.
- Receive an electronic copy of your Personal Information, including specific pieces of your Personal Information, and, where applicable, a copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another company.
To make a privacy request, please contact us by email at personal@schrodinger.com or by telephone at 888-530-6008 (toll-free). In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to access or have changed, whether you would like to have Personal Information that you have provided to us suppressed from our database.
We will verify and respond to your request consistent with applicable law, taking into account the type and sensitivity of the Personal Information subject to the request. To confirm your identity and protect against fraudulent requests, we may need to request certain Personal Information such as email and an authentication code. If you maintain a password-protected account with us, we may verify your identity through our existing authentication practices for your account and require you to re-authenticate yourself before disclosing or deleting your Personal Information. If you make a request to delete, we may ask you to confirm your request before we delete your Personal Information.
We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising your rights under applicable law.
When provided by applicable law, you also may lodge a complaint with a data protection authority for your country or region, or in the place of the alleged misconduct.
Data protection authorities:
https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
California Residents
If you are a California resident and an agent would like to make a request on your behalf as permitted by applicable law, the agent may contact us as described in the “Rights Requests” section above. As part of our verification process, we may request that the agent provide, as applicable, proof concerning their status as an authorized agent. In addition, we may require that you verify your identity as described in the “Rights Requests” section above or confirm that you provided the agent permission to submit the request.
Security
We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.
Schrödinger hereby disclaims, as far as permitted by local laws, any liability for itself and its affiliates, service providers, and professional advisors for any Personal Information we collect in connection with your application that is lost, misused, illegally accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed, or not timely delivered to our Careers Site.
Links To Third-Party Websites
This Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service to which the Careers Site links. The inclusion of a link on the Careers Site does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by Schrödinger.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Schrödinger is an equal opportunity employer, which means we offer equal treatment to all applicants, consistent with applicable law. Schrödinger does not discriminate, either directly or indirectly, on protected grounds: race, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, national origin, ethnic origin, religion, beliefs or creed, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, military veteran status, or genetic information in any area of recruitment.
Law Applicable To Job Application
The Careers Site allows you to apply for jobs world-wide, as a benefit of Schrödinger’s centralized global recruitment function. This Careers Site is operated from the United States. Accordingly, any Personal Information you submit to the Careers Site will be collected in the United States and will be subject to U.S. laws.
If we share your Personal Information with an affiliate located in another country in its capacity as a potential employer, the affiliate will handle your Personal Information in accordance with this Policy. Any hiring or other employment-related decisions will be made by the hiring affiliate in accordance with the laws of the country where the job will be located.
About Children
The Careers Site is not intended for minors under the age of 18.
Current Personnel Of Schrödinger
If you currently work for Schrödinger, you must be eligible to apply for a different position within Schrödinger to use the Careers Site. If you accept such a position, your benefits programs and Human Resources policies may change. Please consult with the People Business Partner for the new position concerning application eligibility, benefit programs, and HR policies applicable to that position.
The Careers Site is not intended for distribution to, or use by, any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to local law or regulation.
Changes To The Policy
We reserve the right to amend this Policy at any time in order to address future developments of Schrödinger, the Careers Site or changes in industry or legal trends. The “Last Updated” legend at the top of this Policy indicates when this Policy was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Policy on the Careers Site.
Contact Us
Schrödinger, LLC, located at 1540 Broadway, 21st Floor, New York, NY 10036, is the company responsible for collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information under this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at: personal@schrodinger.com.
Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include sensitive information in your emails to us.
In Germany, you may also contact our German Data Protection Officer (DPO) at:
Prof. Dr. h.c. Heiko Jonny Maniero, LL.B., LL.M. mult., M.L.E.
DGD Deutsche Gesellschaft für Datenschutz GmbH
Fraunhoferring 3
85238 Petershausen
Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0) 8131-77987-0
Fax: +49 (0) 8131-77987-99
Email: info@dg-datenschutz.de
Website: https://dg-datenschutz.de/