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Scientist, Discovery Chemistry
2 months ago
Job Description
At our company, we are inspired by the belief that a research-driven enterprise dedicated to scientific excellence can create medicines and vaccines that save and improve lives. Every employee is building on our proud legacy of scientific breakthrough. Our ability to impact the lives of patients worldwide depends on the integrity, creativity, humility, and scientific acumen of our team. We are creating a diverse organization that is inspired by invention and founded on a culture of respect and collaboration. At our company's Research Labs, you'll have the opportunity to expand your knowledge and skills through collaboration with talented and dedicated colleagues while advancing your career.
Our company is currently seeking passionate synthetic organic or medicinal chemists for positions within the Discovery Chemistry Department located at our West Point, PA site. The successful candidate will join multidisciplinary, highly collaborative discovery teams to invent novel medicines by applying innovative synthetic chemistry, analytical techniques, and data analysis to design and synthesize drug candidates and intermediates.
Successful candidates must have excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills in a team environment and a proven record of solving complex problems. Additionally, it is expected that the successful candidate will learn quickly through on-the-job training to become increasingly skilled and independent in reaction setup, route design and optimization.
Specific responsibilities will include:
- Collaborative and independent synthetic route design, execution, and optimization to access assigned target molecules using modern synthetic chemistry techniques
- Selection and application of appropriate purification techniques including flash chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and recrystallization
- Acquisition and interpretation of analytical data such as NMR and LC/MS
- Using available data sets and in silico tools to generate novel, testable hypotheses and target molecules to enable clear decision making
- Participation in the triage and selection of molecules for additional studies (DMPK, in vivo experiments, counter screening etc.)
Education Minimum Requirement:
- Minimum qualifications include B.S. or equivalent degree in chemistry, biochemistry or related field with (3+) years of industrial and/or academic research experience or Master's degree in chemistry, biochemistry or related field.
Required Experience and Skills:
- Relevant experience must involve the application of organic synthesis
- Experience with independent synthetic route design, execution and optimization using modern synthetic techniques
- Experience with the selection and application of appropriate purification techniques (flash chromatography and HPLC) and analytical data (LC/MS and NMR) to support execution of synthetic routes
Optional skills:
- Knowledge and experience interpreting biological activity data (structure-activity relationships)
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Requisition ID:R302046
