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Scientist, Chemistry Job Description
- Maintain a close interaction with medicinal chemistry teams, pharmaceutical development scientists, and chemical development teams
- Learn and effectively implement new experimental protocols and/or techniques
- Consult literature to understand scientific purpose of assignments
- Lead and conduct research and development projects
- Development of standards, specifications and test procedures for oils, lubricants and greases
- Collaboration with engineering and product development
- Establishes robust methods
- 1+ years’ experience various chemical extraction techniques (liquid-liquid, solid-liquid)
- 1+ years’ experience activity guided fractionation and compound isolation
- 1+ years’ experience quantification of specific compounds in complex mixtures
- Prefer 2-5 years' of experience working in a chemistry laboratory
- Polymer/organic synthesis skills
- Develop and troubleshoot synthetic pathways to desired products
- Air-free chemistry techniques
- Experience with UV/Vis and fluorescence spectroscopy
- Experience operating FPLC/HPLC/GPC equipment
Scientist, Chemistry Job Description
- These activities may include production and characterization of samples, instrument support, surface chemistry, sequencing, and data analysis
- Contribute to drug discovery efforts by applying computational chemistry approaches such as ligand docking, molecular dynamics simulations, pharmacophore modeling, QSAR/ADMET models, and small library design
- Drug chemistry
- Hands-on generation of solid state chemistry data using laboratory techniques such as polarized microscopy, powder X-ray diffraction, thermal analysis, water vapor sorption, NMR (solid state and liquid), vibrational spectroscopy, intrinsic dissolution
- Application and creation of informatics and modeling tools applied to route design, reaction mechanism elucidation, catalyst design, and compound scale-up in process chemistry
- Collaborate with analytical chemistry on the characterization of chemical entities
- Be responsible for conducting research directed toward the development of efficient routes for the synthesis of potential drug candidates
- The individual will be expected to remain conversant with the modern chemical literature and to maintain a strong laboratory presence
- Independently design, demonstrate, optimize, and document chemical processes for small molecule drug candidates
- Transfer and troubleshoot chemical processes with our outsourcing partners
- Typically requires minimum of a BS degree in Polymer or Organic Chemistry
- Experience in organic chemistry analytical techniques
- Publication record in drug discovery
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in the area of molecular quantum chemistry
- Experience with the TURBOMOLE program package would be optimal but not mandatory
- Demonstrates inter-disciplinary knowledge of drug discovery (e.g., enzymology, cellular pharmacology, and pharmacokinetics) and is able to use this knowledge to influence project strategy
Scientist, Chemistry Job Description
- Active participation in discussions in medicinal chemistry team meetings
- Presentation of results to chemistry and project teams
- Analytical Chemistry and Materials analysis expertise
- Preference for Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a Materials Science background
- Perform data analysis by using instrument computer software and office applications such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Use low-volume laboratory liquid sample handling equipment (micropipettes) to prepare samples and solutions
- Work with multiple scientists within the group to effectively schedule work
- Develop new analytical tools and assays as needed to analyze data, derive conclusions, document findings and prepare reports for sharing within and between R&D groups
- Analyze prospective protein targets for druggability and therapeutic relevance using computational methods and available databases
- Application and creation of informatics and modeling tools to accelerate the evolution of high functioning biocatalysts obtained through directed evolution and other means
- Practical experience in wet chemistry techniques (FTIR spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy, titration)
- Expertise in at least one area of drug design
- Good understanding of structure based methods and medicinal chemistry principles
- Good understanding of pharmacology principles as they pertain to drug development
- Expertise in one area of synthetic chemistry
- Ability to present work formally to Research Committee and at external conferences
Scientist, Chemistry Job Description
- Evaluate and implement methods for chemical analysis and quantification of organic materials in solid and liquid forms
- Evaluate and implement methods for synthesizing organic compounds
- Communicate experimental findings from chemical analyses in a format accessible to non-technical team members
- Specify, operate and maintain analytical equipment
- Write work instructions for procedures developed
- Analysis of complex data sets and creation of design hypotheses
- Troubleshoot and optimize reaction sequences to generate informative compounds in parallel
- Lead the workload to meet aggressive timelines
- Serve as part of cross-functional project teams, which impact product specifications, change controls, and other key contributors to consumer production
- Products include reagents, calibrators, buffers, controls
- Strong track record of scientific contributions in the field of medicinal chemistry
- May travel to various domestic conferences or client sites, including overnight trips
- They would have potential capability in supervising research associates
- PhD with no more than 6 years experience or will be graduating with PhD in 2016-17
- 5+ years specific experience in process chemistry or CMC
- Master’s degree or PhD in organic chemistry or chemical engineering with 3+ years relevant experience in research or industry
Scientist, Chemistry Job Description
- Demonstrated flexibility when balancing projects and priorities
- Ability up to travel 10% of the time
- Documents laboratory work that is detailed, timely and in compliance with GLP/GMP - Other duties as assigned by his/her supervisor
- Execute experiments, following the company’s Standard Operating Procedures, Deviations and Change Control programs and cGMP guidelines
- Comply with safety and regulatory requirements is expected and documented through our internal training program
- Design and conduct advanced research using in situ and/or time-resolved small-angle x-ray scattering
- Serve as a primary technical contact on small-angle x-ray scattering and its use in materials characterization
- Organize and lead a research project on voids and microstructure within actinide materials
- Contribute to programs investigating properties of high explosives and detonation, such as kinetics of carbon condensation behind detonation fronts
- Collaborate with scientists in multidisciplinary team environment to accomplish research goals and support missions of LLNL
- Knowledge and understanding of commercial oils and lubricants, manufacturing processes, analytical characterizations and measurement techniques
- Implement processes to apply Rosetta modeling and Molecular Dynamics approaches
- Provide computational chemistry support for developing small molecule, peptide and large molecule technologies
- Develop novel computational chemistry/cheminformatics methods/applications in solving drug discovery problems
- Contribute to ongoing discovery projects
- Experience in Rosetta