Senior Scientist, Analytical Chemistry

About Impact Nano

Impact Nano, LLC is a manufacturer of specialty chemicals and advanced materials for high technology industry sectors, including semiconductors, batteries, and pharmaceutical intermediates. We are a start up company backed by institutional investors including Intel Capital and Goldman Sachs. Our company has demonstrated capabilities and expertise in the following areas:

• Synthesis and purification of air-sensitive chemicals,
• Scale-up from bench to pilot to full-scale manufacturing, and
• Custom/toll manufacturing services from gram to multi-ton quantities.

Impact Nano Values

Our values are what we stand for and believe in, they act as our guiding principles and set the standard for how our company interacts with our partners, customers, and the world.

• Respect for one another, our community, and the environment
• Integrity in our decisions
• Innovation in our approach; and
• Excellence in our actions

Every employee of Impact Nano incorporates our values into all that we do.

For our R&D laboratory in Devens, MA we wish to hire one Senior Scientist, Analytical Chemistry, reporting to the R&D Manager

Primary Responsibilities

- Demonstrate safety leadership in all activities and actively contribute to group safety culture by participating in and leading safety reviews

- Collaborate with synthetic chemists to enable discovery of new chemicals, new synthetic routes and development of new chemical processes

- Develop sampling techniques to support real-time analysis for chemical process development and scale up

- Investigate new analytical techniques to support development, process monitoring, and quality control

- Serve as in house expert and internal technical resource to manage outside analytical vendors and consultants

- Develop written procedures and protocols for our in-house analytical instruments (currently FTIR, GC-MS, UV-VIS, and in the future ICP-MS and NMR)

- Prepare reports demonstrating measurements systems capabilities

- Establishment of wet chemistry analytical techniques.

- Participate in the hiring and training of quality control technicians

- Train and mentor co-workers.

- Help keep the lab clean and organized.

Qualifications

- M.S. or Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry or a related field

- At least seven years’ experience with analytical method development

- Expertise in at least three of the following analytical techniques: NMR, GC-MS, FT-IR, Raman, ICP-MS

- Experience with statistics packages used for metrology validation and statistical process control

- Experience with LIMS software implementation

- Experience with metrology validation / measurement systems analysis

- Experience implementing real-time process monitoring equipment in a factory environment is a plus

- Experience with analysis of air sensitive materials is a plus

- Experience in the pharmaceutical or the semiconductor industries is a plus

Impact Nano does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, marital status, parental status, military status, or any other protected class.

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $110,000.00 - $140,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Relocation assistance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• Do you have experience with 3 of the following analytical techniques: NMR, GC-MS, FT-IR, Raman, ICP-MS? Please state level of expertise (user, method developer, expert)
• Please describe your experience utilizing analytical tools to help with new molecule discovery, characterization or process development.

Education:

• Master's (Required)

Experience:

• Instrumental Analysis in Industry: 5 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person