Associate Materials Scientist — Solid-State & API Screening

Eurofins; New London (CT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical coverage

Dental and vision options

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Eurofins is seeking an Associate Scientist to support synthesis of salt forms and polymorphs for drug candidates in Groton, CT. The role focuses on solid form characterization and particle analysis to evaluate drug substances for formulation.

You will work with cross-disciplinary teams to define screening strategies, maintain lab notebooks, and contribute to new scientific approaches within Materials Science. Monday–Friday, on-site in Groton.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years or MS in pharmaceutical science, chemistry, chemical engineering, or related field.
• Strong pharma/API testing experience preferred.
• Experience in solid state characterization techniques (XRD, microscopy, DSC, TGA, spectroscopy).
• Experience/understanding of infrared spectroscopy (FTIR, NIR, FT-Raman) and/or SSNMR is an advantage.
• Experience solving materials science problems with experimental approaches and teamwork.
• Understanding of physical, analytical, and organic chemistry.
• Good organizational skills, independent work, and communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Some programming experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Conduct solid state characterization (e.g., X-ray powder diffraction, thermal analysis, moisture sorption, microscopy, spectroscopy) of small molecules of pharmaceutical relevance.
• Support multidisciplinary project teams and collaborate to define and implement crystallization, polymorph, salt, and co-crystal screening activities.
• Support multidisciplinary project teams and collaborate to define and implement API particle characterization activities.
• Conduct physical and surface characterization of powders of pharmaceutical relevance, including particle size, shape and surface energy.
• Collaborate with colleagues in Medicinal Chemistry, Formulation and Biopharmaceutics to align solid form strategies for clinical studies.
• Solve scientific problems using contemporary Materials Science experimental techniques.
• Contribute to the development of new scientific approaches within the Materials Science organization.
• Ensure contemporaneous and accurate entries in the electronic laboratory notebook system.

Skills

Solid state characterization

Crystallization screening

Particle characterization

Spectroscopy (FTIR/NIR)

SSNMR

Data analysis

Written communication

Programming basics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical science, chemistry, chemical engineering, or related field

Master’s degree in pharmaceutical science, chemistry, chemical engineering, or related field

Tools

X-ray powder diffraction

DSC

TGA

Polarized light microscopy

IR spectroscopy (FTIR/NIR/FT-Raman)

SSNMR

Job description

Eurofins is seeking an Associate Scientist to support synthesis of salt forms and polymorphs for drug candidates in Groton, CT. The role focuses on solid form characterization and particle analysis to evaluate drug substances for formulation.

You will work with cross-disciplinary teams to define screening strategies, maintain lab notebooks, and contribute to new scientific approaches within Materials Science. Monday–Friday, on-site in Groton.