Autonomous Lab Chemist — Founding Team

Riven Systems; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Riven Systems in New York seeks an Experimental Chemist to generate the data that everything else at Riven is built on. You will collaborate with experts in thermodynamics, hydrometallurgy, process modeling, and autonomous experimentation to run a laboratory with rigor, speed, and scale.

Join a lean, interdisciplinary team where experience across multiple roles is welcome; apply to the role that fits your skillset and contribute to building something new in laboratory science.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in chemistry, chemical engineering, metallurgy, or a related field, or an M.S. with substantial industrial experience in hydrometallurgy or separations.
• Hands-on hydrometallurgical experience at the bench-scale.
• Practical trace-metal analytical competence, ideally ICP-OES, including calibration design and method troubleshooting.
• Careful, documented experimental practice and a desire to uphold rigorous technical standards.
• Excitement to work in a scrappy, interdisciplinary early-stage environment.
• Clear interdisciplinary communication and the curiosity to quickly learn and execute in new domains.
• Ability to prioritize, execute, and collaborate with a high degree of agency, a willingness to be wrong, and the ambition to build something that has never existed before.
• Trust, humor, rigor, and an excitement to work in a scrappy, interdisciplinary early-stage environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the analytical chain: designing experiments, running and troubleshooting the analytical tools, and generating and interpreting the data.
• Run, optimize, and expand the hardware capabilities of Riven's autonomous lab.
• Help establish a deep interface between experimental and computational capabilities, ensuring the constraints and richness of experimental reality are reflected by modeling.

Skills

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Rigorous experimental practice

Analytical thinking

Adaptability

Education

Ph.D. in chemistry, chemical engineering, metallurgy, or related field, or an M.S. with substantial industrial experience in hydrometallurgy or separations

Tools

ICP-OES

Job description

Riven Systems in New York seeks an Experimental Chemist to generate the data that everything else at Riven is built on. You will collaborate with experts in thermodynamics, hydrometallurgy, process modeling, and autonomous experimentation to run a laboratory with rigor, speed, and scale.

Join a lean, interdisciplinary team where experience across multiple roles is welcome; apply to the role that fits your skillset and contribute to building something new in laboratory science.