Senior Scientist, Organic Synthesis for Drug Substance

Cambrex Corp.; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life insurance

Retirement planning

Job summary

Cambrex Corp. is seeking an experienced Chemistry professional to perform routine and complex organic synthesis, purification, and analytical evaluation as part of the chemical development team.

You will optimize routes to active pharmaceutical ingredients for purity, reproducibility, scalability, and yield, and present work to clients and regulatory agencies. Ideal candidates have advanced degrees in chemistry with 12–15+ years (or MS with 6–8+ years, or PhD with 0–3+ years) of related

Qualifications

• Advanced understanding of general chemistry and organic chemistry.
• Understanding of modern organic synthesis reactions, isolations and purification procedures.
• Full understanding of common synthetic organic reaction mechanisms.
• Proficiency with analytical techniques (NMR, IR, MS, HPLC).

Responsibilities

• Carry out multistep organic syntheses, isolation, and purification of targeted products independently.
• Conduct analysis of starting materials, reaction mixtures, intermediates and products using appropriate instrumentation.
• Design and propose new synthetic processes to produce the drug substance.
• Coordinate project activities with chemistry and analytical teams; manage resources.
• Prepare summaries and reports; present results to internal teams and customers.

Skills

General chemistry

Organic chemistry

Synthesis & purification

Analytical techniques

Communication skills

Computers: ChemDraw/Office

Education

PhD in Organic Chemistry

MS in Organic Chemistry

B.A./B.S. in Chemistry

Tools

NMR

IR

MS

HPLC

ChemDraw

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Cambrex Corp. is seeking an experienced Chemistry professional to perform routine and complex organic synthesis, purification, and analytical evaluation as part of the chemical development team.

You will optimize routes to active pharmaceutical ingredients for purity, reproducibility, scalability, and yield, and present work to clients and regulatory agencies. Ideal candidates have advanced degrees in chemistry with 12–15+ years (or MS with 6–8+ years, or PhD with 0–3+ years) of related