Senior Chemist

Air Liquide•Branchburg Township, NJ

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Air Liquide Advanced Materials seeks a Senior Chemist to work in Branchburg, NJ. This role involves synthesizing, purifying, and analyzing new semiconductor materials and other emerging products. The Senior Chemist will work on projects to develop novel and scalable synthesis and purification methods, develop analytical methodology, create intellectual properties, and interface with various functions to bring new products to market. The position requires working on projects to synthesize and analyze novel deposition precursor molecules from gram to kilogram scale, interfacing with product management through a stage gate process, and collaborating with Sales, Marketing, Safety, Quality, Engineering, and Manufacturing. The Senior Chemist will also complete product development data packages, transfer new molecule synthesis to Engineering and Production for high volume production, act as the lead chemist in cross-functional product development teams, develop novel and more efficient synthetic processes, develop new analytical methods, create intellectual properties, mentor and train new chemists and technicians, foster an innovative and collaborative work environment, and provide chemistry support for quality, safety, or manufacturing issues.

Requirements

PhD in Chemistry.
5 years of experience with developing new analytical methods for novel products and delivering results.
Experience with synthesis and purification of air/moisture sensitive compounds from gram to kilogram scale.
Usage of analytical instrumentation including Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy (UV), gas chromatography (GC), mass spectroscopy (MS) and Fourier-Transformed Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR).
Experience operating various types of vacuum systems such as Schlenk technique.

Responsibilities

Work with the product development team to synthesize, purify and analyze new semiconductor materials and other new emerging products.
Work on projects and with groups to develop novel and scalable synthesis and purification.
Develop analytical methodology.
Create intellectual properties.
Interface with various other functions to move the new product to the market.
Work on projects to synthesize and analyze novel deposition precursor molecules from gram to kilogram scale.
Interface with product management and develop the new product through a stage gate process.
Interface with various function groups such as Sales, Marketing, Safety, Quality, Engineering and Manufacturing.
Complete the product development data package and transfer the new molecule synthesis to Engineering and Production Group for high volume production.
Act as the lead chemist in the cross-functional product development core team.
Develop novel and more efficient synthetic processes.
Develop new analytical methods for new products.
Create intellectual properties for the company.
Mentor and train new chemists and technicians.
Foster an innovative and collaborative work environment.
Provide chemistry support related to various quality, safety or manufacturing issues.