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Job Description:

Position: Senior R&D Scientist - Catalysts
Company: Nitto Denko Technical Corporation
Location: Oceanside, CA

Nitto Denko Technical Corporation (NDT, www.ndtcorp.com) is a subsidiary R&D center and a member of NITTO DENKO Group (www.nitto.com). The mission of NDT is “Creating New Technologies for the Business Centers of Tomorrow”. Founded in 2000, NDT now has over 50 scientists focusing on cutting edge technologies that will provide practical solutions for leading industry sectors such as Opto-electronics, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, and others. Our long-term vision, multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team of researchers makes NDT a vibrant and exciting center of new ideas and brilliant technologies.

Now NDT has one immediate opening for a highly motivated and creative Senior R&D Scientist to join our location in Oceanside, CA. This position seeks a chemist who has broad knowledge and experiences in catalyst design and various polymerization method, monomer synthesis, product developments and polymer related product. You will be part of green chemistry team.

Essential Job Requirements:

- Ph.D. Degree in Chemistry or related field, > 5 years industrial experience in an R&D setting.

- Strong background in inorganic, organic, or organometallic chemistry is a must. In-depth knowledge of catalysis mechanisms and control polymer structure through the rational design of catalysts.

- Strong polymer synthesis background is strongly preferred, such as ATRP, anionic, cationic, condensation, free radical polymerization. In-depth knowledge of structure-property relations and materials properties; ability to design materials to desired properties, is a must.

- Monomer synthesis experience is preferred.

- Renewable materials, biobased building blocks, biomass related experience is a plus.

- Chemically recyclable polymers experience is a plus.

- In-depth knowledge of developing and formulating new products in the broad fields of organic, inorganic and hybrid materials with various applications is a plus.

- Strong awareness of safety of chemicals and reactions, ability to handle materials that are sensitive to air, light, and moisture.

- Highly motivated and self-driven individual with the ability to work independently, and multi-task under aggressive timeline to support team and corporate objectives

Preferred Qualification:

- Broad experience in the development of new synthetic strategies for producing polymers of defined structure and addressing problems at the interface of organic, inorganic, organometallic, and polymer chemistry.

- Broad experience with polymerization processes.

- Proven ability to follow detailed SOPs and perform analytical techniques such as GC, LC-MS, FTIR, UV-Vis, and NMR

- Broad interests and willingness to take on relatively undefined challenges, excellent problem-solving abilities, creativity and ability to work in cross-functional teams.

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Develop and formulate new products in the broad fields of organic, inorganic and hybrid materials with various applications

- Maintain excellent laboratory records, and write reports and research summaries as required

- Interact closely with other scientists to develop comprehensive solutions

- Participate in intellectual property creation

Physical Job Requirements:

Office/Lab environment. Lifting up to 50 pounds may be required. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use their hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and telephone keypad or to write, as well as talk and hear. They are required to stand, walk or sit, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus.

NDT offers an exciting interdisciplinary work environment, competitive compensation and benefits.

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