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Synthetic Chemist, Director
Chemistry
on site: New York City
added Tue Sep 19, 2023
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Osmo is hiring a Director in Synthetic Chemistry, to help discover novel new aroma ingredients for the fragrance industry. The ideal candidate has chemistry experience with fragrance compounds and new fragrance discovery, thrives on rigorous experimentation, and is a team player. The candidate will be an integral member of a diverse discovery team, with opportunity for career growth.

You will:

  • Manage a small team of chemists responsible for the optimization of new lead aroma compounds
  • Work closely with our software engineers, data scientists and AI researchers for the continuous improvement of internal models
  • Manage external chemists and collaborations to deliver on aggressive timelines
  • Network across our multifunctional research team and integrate data across all relevant teams to improve the efficiency of our fragrance discovery programs
  • Actively follow the literature within the areas of research interest

You have a:

  • PhD in organic chemistry and 5 +years of relevant industry experience
  • Exemplary skills in organic chemistry techniques with an emphasis on volatile compound synthesis and purification
  • Parallel library design and synthesis, and an understanding of in-silico approaches are a plus
  • Strong organizational, managerial and communication skills
  • Strong leadership skills and a track record of success in the fragrance industry and new ingredient discovery including: hit identification, hit to lead and lead optimization
  • Demonstrated record of delivering new aroma compounds
  • Experience in managing external chemistry FTE resources is a plus
Who you are:
You're Curious, Kind, Communicate Clearly, and Get Stuff Done. You have a first-class mind, and you want to stretch it. You want to work on a nearly impossible goal that serves a deep human need, drawing on a wide diversity of knowledge and skill to achieve it. Where there's a gap, we explore it from first-principles and invent pragmatic solutions. You want to work with world-class, passionate teammates on this adventure into the unknown.
If this role inspires you we’d encourage you to apply. We are committed to recruiting, developing, and retaining an incredible team optimized for a diversity of thought, background, and approaches. All employment decisions and responsibilities are determined based on current ability and your ability to grow, without regard to race, color, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, marital status, physical, mental, or sensory disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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Osmo is a digital olfaction company, on a mission to give computers a sense of smell to improve the health and wellbeing of human life. Why? Our sense of smell both enriches and saves lives, and has a deep and direct connection to our emotions and memory. Vision and hearing have been digitized, but not scent. It’s time we solve this. We’re bringing an unprecedented combination of software, data, hardware and capital to the historic challenge of giving computers a sense of smell.

We believe in the power of automation and carefully applied AI/ML to solve problems that are beyond what the unaided human mind can tackle on its own. In the first phase of our development, we are using our map of odor along with cutting-edge generative AI to create the next generation of aroma molecules (e.g., the ingredients in the fragrances we wear and the products we use). We're a hybrid company with a laboratory and center-of-mass in Cambridge, MA and New York, NY.

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