Chemist, Specialty Chemicals
Join our team as a domain expert in specialty chemicals, helping bridge advanced chemical knowledge with AI systems and structured data. You’ll ensure our models reflect the nuance and complexity of real-world compounds, formulations, and industrial processes.
Responsibilities
- Review and validate AI-generated data related to specialty chemicals, formulations, and applications
- Provide deep input on structure–function relationships, use cases, and performance characteristics
- Assist in curating, annotating, and structuring datasets for AI training and evaluation
- Collaborate with AI engineers and product teams to translate industry knowledge into scalable features
- Contribute expertise on regulatory, safety, and performance aspects specific to specialty chemical domains
- Stay current with advances in materials, additives, and formulation science relevant to our focus areas
technical requirements
- Strong background in chemistry, materials science, or chemical engineering - preferably with a PhD
- Domain expertise in one or more specialty areas (e.g. coatings, surfactants, polymers, adhesives, agrochemicals)
- Familiarity with interpreting product specs, MSDS, formulation data, and technical datasheets
- Comfortable working with structured data and digital chemical representations (e.g. SMILES, InChI)
- (Bonus) Experience in industrial R&D, formulation, or technical support roles
- (Bonus) Exposure to cheminformatics tools (e.g. RDKit) or scientific data platforms
personal attributes
- Highly analytical and detail-oriented with strong data accuracy instincts
- Strong communicator able to convey complex concepts to technical and non-technical teams
- Curious, pragmatic, and comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-moving environment
- Eager to apply scientific knowledge in novel, product-focused contexts
- Open to experimentation and feedback-driven iteration
- Willing to work in fast-paced startup environment
what you’ll get
- High-impact role shaping AI systems grounded in real-world chemistry
- Opportunity to work on complex, technical problems with broad industrial relevance
- Remote-first environment with flexibility and optional office presence in Sydney
- Collaborate with engineers, PhD scientists, and founders solving meaningful challenges
- Fast learning curve and potential to grow into strategic or technical leadership roles
- Help define how the $5T chemical industry engages with digital and AI transformation
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OUR WHY
We are building chemistry-specific intelligence. Chemistry touches nearly every aspect of our lives and the problem we're trying to solve has significant scope and magnitude. It will directly affect people's lives for the better if we're successful. We are doing something that has never been done before - operating at a unique intersection of the physical and digital world.
