Synthetic Chemist

  • Full-time

Company Description

Are you enthusiastic about the developments of new product families? Would you like to join a highly motivated international team and support its technology & business progress? 

CarboCode is an innovation focused R&D company dedicated for the technology development, production and commercialization of glycosphingolipids and their precursors/intermediates in pharmaceutical, nutrition, dietary supplement, cosmetic and intermediate industries.

Job Description

CarboCode’s technology platform is characterized by the use of synthetic approaches within organic chemistry, biocatalysis, fermentation and separation/purification methodologies. Site directed enzyme engineering and molecular biology are also supporting activities of the principal synthetic efforts. Carbohydrate and lipid chemistries play a crucial role in discovery, optimization, scale-up activities, technology transfer and future production.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Developing and optimizing chemical technologies
  • Supporting chemical technology scale-up activities for industrial applications
  • Supporting specification settings and analytical controls of technology steps

Qualifications

  • Degree in organic chemistry
  • Fluent in English
  • Experienced in chemical optimization and scale-up activities in both research lab and kg-lab environments
  • Preferably, experienced in synthetic carbohydrate/lipid chemistries
  • Preferably, experienced in basic chemical technology developments
  • Preferably with industrial experience (capability of overviewing scalable technologies)

Additional Information

The Location: The work will be performed at CarboCode’s site in Konstanz, Germany