Synthesis Chemist

**Who we are**:
DUDE CHEM is a Green Chemistry startup with its origins in the German Cluster of Excellence in Catalysis at the University of Technology Berlin. We are a small but mighty team which is dedicated to fulfil our mission: Based on the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry we aim to build a green chemical-pharmaceutical industry. The industry currently consumes >13% of all fossil resources, most of them during the manufacturing. Our aim is to change this.

In order to achieve this goal, we have built a strong IP portfolio and validated the tech onto the market in order to reduce or reuse expensive resources in the production of chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

We believe that digitalization can be an integral tool for the implementation of greener, more sustainable production processes.

This is why we combine both scientific disciplines - digitalization and sustainability - in all of our projects. Over the last years, our team has proven that our approaches work and created hard competitive advantages in the core of the value chain of their customers.

**Why we need you**:
We have recently secured a financing round in order to bring our first, greener manufactured products into the plants. Further, many customers are approaching us in order to get our support and help them to produce in a more sustainable and controlled way. Thus, we need your help to develop greener synthesis routes as part of our Green Chemistry team.

In this role you will support our development team with your know-how in greener synthesis design, the development of our green chemical processes in the lab, and scale-ups to the manufacturing plant. You will support us in establishing and shaping our process chemistry capabilities and strategy as the company grows into the future.

If you want to develop innovative green chemical manufacturing processes, bring them from the lab scale into the plant scale and have a real positive impact on the world, you are the perfect match for us

Tasks

**Results we expect**:
As a Synthesis Chemist we expect you to design green routes of synthesis (RoS) and chemical processes and validate them in the laboratory. You will be working in a multidisciplinary team developing our green processes, using your organic chemistry knowledge and creative problem-solving skills.
- Identification of greener synthesis routes for commercially interesting products based on literature and patent research as well as on your own scientific background.
- The integration of renewable feedstocks, starting materials from “waste”, as well as newest scientific technologies to reduce CO2 equivalents in the routes whenever possible.
- Estimated probability of success for the different synthesis steps. If required, we’ll teach you how to do it
- Synthesized material to demonstrate the proof-of-concept of your ideas as well as the technical feasibility.
- Your interpretation of MS and NMR analyses data and recommendations/ conclusions on how to proceed.
- Summaries of your work for customers and the management (written reports and presentations, both in English).
- Presentations of our findings as well of our experience in video calls, personal meetings or on conferences will be also part of the jobs (also in English).

**Requirements**:
**Skills and attitudes that might be helpful**:

- Degree (M.Sc., Dipl.Ing or PhD, or equivalents) in chemistry, natural sciences, or a related discipline.
- Knowledge in synthetic techniques is preferred.
- We are looking for experiences in the retro-synthesis of important classes of natural products. If you think that you might contribute to our team in a different way even better, feel free to reach out to us nevertheless
- You should be able to handle uncertainty and make estimations based on a limited amount of information without panicking.
- In times of high time pressure (which is frequently the case), you don’t lose control and you are still able to work. Instead of despair, you organize yourself and set priorities.
- You don’t wait for others to solve your problems and you don’t easily lose your faith.
- You like to be persistent and challenges motivate you.
- Getting results is what drives you but you know that even the best results are only valuable if they are reproducible. Your working attitude is “Quick & Clean”
- You like to exchange and discuss scientific and technical challenges with others, although it takes some time of your working day because you understand it very well that the whole is more than the sum of its part.
- You are also not afraid to communicate and exchange with other team members from sales, marketing, etc. even if you don’t have a clue what they are talking about
- Your entrepreneurial spirit allows you to work proactively as well as economically.
- Excellent writing, oral communication, as well as presentation skills are an added value of course. Thus, a firm knowledge of handling Microsoft templates in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is