Research Development Research Scientist

About This Role

This intensive 3-month summer internship offers undergraduate chemistry students the opportunity to work within the fast-paced and challenging environment of an R&D facility. The intern will contribute to polymer discovery projects, interacting with and working side-by-side with industry experts, and will have the opportunity to work on innovative projects involving the use of analytical instrumentation in a world-class research environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to polymer discovery projects
• Interact with and work alongside industry experts
• Work on innovative projects involving analytical instrumentation

Requirements

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in chemistry from an accredited college or university
• High school diploma
• 2 years of chemistry course and lab work, including analytical chemistry coursework (quantitative analysis and instrumental analysis)
• Self-motivated, organized, detail-oriented, and capable of routinely working in a high throughput laboratory environment
• Mechanical aptitude and ability to learn to assemble, operate, and troubleshoot a variety of analytical laboratory equipment
• Passion for safe practices while working in an analytical laboratory
• Work effectively with others and demonstrate a positive teamwork approach
• Regularly interface with internal stakeholders

Nice to have:

• Experience in a research laboratory environment
• Experience in HPLC/UPLC, mass spectrometry (e.g., tandem MS and HRMS), ion mobility spectrometry (e.g., TWIMS, drift tube), and/or sample preparation methodologies
• Experience in the characterization of polymeric materials
• Interpretation of complex chromatographic data
• Instrument skills, including instrument maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of HPLC/UPLC, tandem MS and HRMS equipment
• Advanced computer skills to navigate instruments computer systems, LIMS, MS Office (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint), Minitab, ACD Spectrus, etc.
• Analytical method development and validation
• Passion for learning and expanding skillset to help achieve team objectives

Benefits

• Industry experience

About the Company

Syensqo is a science company developing groundbreaking solutions that enhance the way people live, work, travel and play. Inspired by the scientific councils which Ernest Solvay initiated in 1911, the company brings great minds together to push the limits of science and innovation for the benefit of its customers, with a diverse, global team of more than 13,000 associates. Its solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices and health care applications. Syensqo's innovation power enables it to deliver on the ambition of a circular economy and explore breakthrough technologies that advance humanity. At Syensqo, the company seeks to promote unity and not uniformity, valuing diversity.