Job posting: senior chemist, ChemFinity Technologies, Brooklyn, New York

Via C&EN Jobs, this position: 

Our purpose as a company:  

Founded in late 2022 and spun out from UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry, ChemFinity Technologies is a Brooklyn, NY-based climate tech startup creating a more equitable future by eliminating pollution and circularizing natural resources. Our mission is to develop innovative recycling processes and materials for critical metal recovery, in ways that drastically reduce the environmental damage caused by competing methods. We are also advancing other separation technologies in water purification and gas separations. ChemFinity is supported by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Fellows program, ARPA-E, the U.S. EPA, the USDA, the USAID, and the U.S. DOE.  

What you can expect in your role:  

For this role, we are seeking a talented chemist who aligns with our team-based culture and problem-solving approach. You will be responsible for developing new methods in material synthesis and metal extraction from waste. This role will require you to work creatively with the co-founders and research team as we grow from the lab to the industrial scale. 

Research & Development   

• You will synthesize and characterize new materials using various techniques (e.g., organic and/or inorganic synthetic methods).  
• You will develop new chemical recycling and recovery methods for metal waste.  
• You will help characterize and understand complex mixtures of metal-containing waste. 

Skills we require for this role:  

• You are an outstanding scientist with experience in more than one of the following areas: organic, inorganic, or organometallic chemistry, sorbent-based separations, metal recycling, purification techniques, product scale-up, experimental documentation, and/or equipment maintenance.  
• You have a PhD degree in Chemistry or a related field, or a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with at least 5+ years of directly relevant industrial chemistry experience. 
• You have a strong fundamental understanding of organic and inorganic chemistry. 
• You have hands-on experience in chemical synthesis, sorbent development, metal recovery processes, and/or industrial manufacturing.  

Full ad here. Posted salary range: $100,000 - $135,000. Best wishes to those interested.