Flow Chemist / Senior chemist I

About Adesis:

Adesis is an extraordinary team looking for extraordinary talent! As a contract research organization, our mission is solving our clients’ complex chemistry problems and accelerating their research and manufacturing goals. Adesis offers promising careers in an inclusive work environment that embraces diversity, innovation, and collaboration.

Position Summary:

The successful candidate will join a dynamic team of chemists and engineers to come up with creative continuous flow chemistry solutions to our client’s synthesis at discovery and manufacturing scale. The main duty includes:

1. Independently, or collaborate with chemists and engineers, to propose synthesis route and/or adapt batch process to continuous flow process to target molecules.
2. Run reactions with no supervision, and perform subsequent isolation of target molecules.
3. Utilize laboratory analytical techniques (HPLC, GC, MS, NMR, …) to characterize reaction products. Analyze data to study reaction trends for optimization or mechanism elucidation.
4. Provide technical consulting to client and/or other departments within the company

Education and Experience:

PhD with in chemistry with 0-2 years of experiences, and a demonstrated track record of success through peer review publications, conference presentations, and/or patents. A master of science in chemistry and 5 years of relevant industrial experience.

Skills:

1. Experience in flow chemistry technology
2. Demonstrated knowledge in flow chemistry reactions including photochemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, oxidation, organometallics, multi-step continuous synthesis…
3. Works well in a diverse and cross-function team

Language Ability:

Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, co-workers, and clients. Write scientific reports and synthesis procedures in order to enable other researchers. Effective presentation of information and responses to questions from managers, co-workers, and clients.

 Reasoning Ability:

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
Ability to solve problems and analyze data without supervision

Contact:   Hai Le, [email protected] or [email protected]