R&D Scientist

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Responsible for defining, developing, and demonstrating commercially viable processes for custom products with a focus on developing economical and robust processes while minimizing waste streams.
• Support production of new chemical entities during initial scale-up and process validation.
• Perform experiments needed to evaluate and optimize a potential synthetic route in terms of its overall yield, purity, cost, and safety.
• Develop and share ideas for synthesizing sophisticated organic molecules.  With an emphasis on applying innovative synthetic chemistry strategies and techniques.  
• Work collaboratively with other departments including safety, engineering, analytical, and sourcing to introduce new chemical processes into full-scale production.
• Write detailed development reports documenting the laboratory research.
• Devise literature searches and utilize other resources that are needed in evaluating projects in terms of their costs, toxicity, safety, and relevant patent data.

Required Qualifications

• PhD in organic chemistry or MS in chemistry with 3-5 years of experience in organic chemistry
• Familiarity with modern laboratory instrumentation (NMR, HPLC, GC)
• Experience with amino acids and peptide synthesis and/or process scale-up is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Sound understanding of synthetic organic chemistry fundamentals, technical knowledge, and experience in multi-step organic synthesis, process scale-up, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Ability to design and develop novel synthetic routes that can be scaled to plant assets.
• Excellent communication, organization, planning, and interpersonal skills.  Ability to interact, lead, and collaborate within an interdisciplinary team environment.
• Must be a highly productive, results-oriented individual capable of generating and implementing original ideas and solutions that contribute materially to the success of product manufacturing

Benefits

Competencies