Senior Scientist, Surface Chemistry

The role

You will lead R&D and process development for surface-modified substrates. You will design surface chemistries, build metrology-to-performance correlations, and deliver scalable processes.

What you will do

• Develop and scale surface functionalization processes
• Design and optimize surface chemistries
• Run Design of Experiments (DOE) driven optimization
• Build Quality Control (QC) workflows
• Own troubleshooting and failure analysis
• Drive innovation by prototyping next-gen coatings and chemistries
• Partner cross-functionally with chemistry, biology and engineering teams
• Mentor technicians and junior staff
• Other job duties as assigned

Required qualifications

• Degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, physics, or related field
• BS with 8+ years, MS with 5+ years or PhD with 3+ years of related industry experience
• Hands on experience supporting a commercial product where surface chemistry is a key component
• Strong surface chemistry and surface characterization skills
• Hands-on metrology experience, including AFM, Ellipsometry, XPS, FTIR, SEM, fluorescence microscopy
• Proven SOP authoring and release and documentation discipline in a product development environment
• Demonstrated project leadership in framing, planning/DOE, execution, analysis
• Experience with vapor-phase and CVD-style deposition of organosilanes, thiols, or related surface chemistries, biomaterials coatings and/or bioconjugation chemistry
• Familiarity with microfabrication context such as PVD/CVD/PECVD/ALD, lithography, etch, wet bench/cleaning
• Data and image analysis (Python, FIJI, JMP, Matlab/Octave, R)
• Experience using Statistical Process Control (SPC) to monitor process stability and variation

Nice to have

• PhD
• additional techniques

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• flexible spending & health savings account
• paid holidays
• paid time off
• employee assistance program
• other company benefits

About the company

Ultima Genomics is a rapidly growing life sciences technology company developing genomics technologies. The company has raised over $700 million to develop a foundational approach to sequencing at scale.