Natural Products Chemist: Isolation & Structure

Indiana Ag Connection; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits for you and your (and)

4 weeks PTO + 2 weeks well-being pay

Excellent parental leave

Retirement savings and tuition support

Job summary

Corteva Agriscience is seeking a Natural Products Chemist at our Indianapolis Global Headquarters. You will lead isolation of complex natural products, determine structures via NMR and mass spectrometry, and optimize methods for metabolites from microbial cultures.

You will collaborate across disciplines with synthetic chemists, biologists, data scientists, and metabolomics experts to advance sustainable product pipelines and improve global food security. This role requires a Ph.D.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in natural products or organic chemistry.
• Experience isolating natural products from complex matrices.
• Proficiency with chromatographic separations and spectroscopy.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute isolation methods for natural products from complex matrices using chromatography.
• Elucidate structures of natural products with 1D/2D NMR and MS techniques.
• Develop and optimize extraction, detection, and quantitation of secondary metabolites from microbial samples.
• Collaborate跨-disciplinary teams to share information and drive projects forward.

Skills

Isolation of natural products

Chromatography techniques

NMR & MS structure elucidation

Experiment design & data analysis

Communication & collaboration

Detail-oriented

Global food security motivation

Education

Ph.D. in natural products/organic chemistry

Tools

RP-HPLC

NP-HPLC

HILIC

Ion exchange

SEC

SPE

SFC

DFT methods

Automation (liquid handling)

Job description

Corteva Agriscience is seeking a Natural Products Chemist at our Indianapolis Global Headquarters. You will lead isolation of complex natural products, determine structures via NMR and mass spectrometry, and optimize methods for metabolites from microbial cultures.

You will collaborate across disciplines with synthetic chemists, biologists, data scientists, and metabolomics experts to advance sustainable product pipelines and improve global food security. This role requires a Ph.D.