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We are seeking a highly skilled Slide Surface Chemist to join our consumable device development team at StatLab Medical Products. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for developing surface, paint, and interface test methods and specifications on microscope slides and cover glass.

• Develop coatings and test/QC methods for microscope slides and cover glass.
• Partner with the chemistry teams to understand surface interactions, especially with human tissue, blood, and stains.
• Define solid and liquid surface/interface specifications and critical to quality attributes to ensure optimized and consistent analysis performance.
• Establish surface chemistry, microscopy, and analytical methods to measure and optimize functional loading, uniformity, and stability.
• Lead strategies development and implementation to optimize critical component surfaces and materials through coatings and functionalization during manufacturing processes and/or staining process.
• Define and develop on-station methods to establish correlation between surface properties and analysis performance and monitor complex consumables on-station quality.
• Development and execution of statistically sound experimentation, characterization, and data analysis.
• Support high-priority tasks across the development efforts as needed.
• Effectively communicate findings to different teams/functions across the entire project organization.

• Masters + 3 years, PhD (preferred) + 3 years in Chemistry, Materials Sciences, Engineering, or Natural Science major preferred.
• Strong understanding of surface science and analyses such as XPS, Auger Spectroscopy, AFM, TOF-SIMS, Ellipsometry, Surface Energy/Contact Angle Goniometry, and other relevant methods.
• Expert knowledge of chemistry techniques used for nucleic acid/enzyme/other biomolecules manipulation on solid surface/interface, surface chemistry, functionalization/synthesis/coating, and application of molecular moiety surface treatments to modulate biomolecule interactions and fluidic device surface modifications.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience in optimization of functionalization chemistry of solid supports to improve the yield, efficiency, and stability.
• Hands-on experience working with a wide range of materials and complex microstructures: e.g. organic, inorganic, porous, solid, etc.
• Knowledge and experience in statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc).
• Willing to train and mentor team members to enable best practices.
• Creative problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development.
• Ability to work independently and with others as a team.
• Exceptional detail-oriented execution of job function required.
• Strong communication skills in a project and cross multiple functions setup.