Senior Scientist in Organic Synthesis

WuXi AppTec · San Diego

FULL TIME

Job Description

Research Chemistry Services (RCS), with a R&D base worldwide, supports the research and development of new small molecule drugs from targets to pre-clinical drug candidates by continuously improving research capacity and efficiency, providing fast, flexible, reliable and high-quality services and solutions for global customers in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical-related industries, enabling customers to accelerate the research and innovation of new small molecule drugs, reducing R & D costs and benefiting patients with professional service teams, competitive technology empowerment platforms and customer-first service concepts.

Location

China (Nationwide)

Here, you will be engaged in the R & D and synthesis of small molecule new drugs. Through systematic training, you can deeply learn various organic reaction types, including hetero-cyclic synthesis, cross-coupling reaction, fluorine chemistry, sugar chemistry and nucleoside synthesis; you have the opportunity to contact the existing advanced technology platforms, such as targeted protein degradation, photo-chemistry, electro-chemistry, catalyst screening, flow chemistry, quantum chemical calculation and other world-leading technology platforms, as well as computer-aided drug design and other new technology R & D, leading the new trend of drug discovery. There is an opportunity to understand the process from the construction of items to the generation of candidate compounds in pharmaceutical chemical projects, and there is an opportunity to communicate and learn face to face with pharmaceutical chemical experts from multinational pharmaceutical enterprises.

Responsibilities

According to the project needs, independently consult the literatures and plan the synthetic route;

Be skilled in completing chemical reactions, scientifically analyzing and solving problems encountered in experiments;

Solve the technical synthesis problems and develop new synthesis strategies and methods;

Independent or leading R & D team to advance challenging projects and ensure project schedule;

Accurately and completely write the test record and test report;

Assist the superior to complete the project progress report and participate in the communication with customers;

Guide and train young researchers to promote the scientific development and technological innovation of the team;

Participate in the daily management of the laboratory and implement the provisions for intellectual property protection, safety and hygiene.

Job requirements

Doctoral degree, research direction for organic synthesis, medicinal chemical synthesis, natural medicine chemistry, chemical pharmaceuticals, pesticide chemistry, sugar chemistry, nucleosides, sugar and lipid synthesis and other strong organic synthesis related specialties;

Have solid professional knowledge, rich organic synthesis experience and excellent route design ability;

Excellent experimental hands-on ability;

Excellent independent thinking, problem solving and innovation capacity to solve highly complex chemical challenges;

Have good English listening, speaking, reading and writing skills;

Have a positive attitude, sense of responsibility, pressure resistance and teamwork spirit.

Training you will receive

1. New Employee Skills Training: Help you quickly meet the technical qualification requirements for your current position;

2. On-the-job professional knowledge training: be familiar with various reaction characteristics and reaction mechanism, master the know-how to arrange time efficiently and reasonably, and improve your core competitiveness;

3. Safety awareness and knowledge training: the company has a complete system of safety training materials and experienced training lecturers;

4. Analytical skills training: including the use of HPLC, LCMS, NMR and other instruments and spectrum analysis;

5. English training: Special English training body courses;

6. Academic report: world-renowned scientists including Nobel laureates in chemistry are invited to give lectures to the company;

7. Management skills training: Invite the company's senior management and famous training institutions to carry out training to improve the practical and theoretical knowledge of employees.

Career Development

1. Help you grow rapidly into an expert in the field of drug development through complete systematic training and practical exercises;

2. Explore your management potential, have the opportunity to participate in project management, quickly promote management positions, grow with the team, light up the growth plan of life.

Company	WuXi AppTec
Location	San Diego
Type	FULL TIME
Niche	Full-time

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