Digital Chemist - Lab Automation & Data Science

Company Description

About Syngenta
At Syngenta Crop Protection, we're pioneering solutions that safeguard global food security while championing sustainable agriculture. As a world market leader headquartered in Switzerland, we empower farmers with innovative crop protection technologies that defend against nature's toughest challenges. We unite advanced science with digital solutions to develop intelligent crop protection that maximizes yields while minimizing environmental impact. Join our mission of revolutionizing plant protection from seed to harvest.

Job Description

We're looking for a chemist who thinks in code & data science as comfortably as they think in reactions. Based at our Jealott's Hill research site, you'll join the Physical Organic Chemistry team within the Process Studies Group - a team pushing the boundaries of how chemistry is done, understood, and accelerated. You'll help to develop critical self-driving experimentation that makes our science faster, smarter, and more reproducible - while also delivering your own development projects and working shoulder-to-shoulder with chemists on real research challenges. If you're excited by the journey towards a self-driving, autonomous lab - and you want to do it in an environment where your ideas will actually land - this is the role for you.

Accountabilities:

• Design and build automated lab workflows - from hardware integration to data capture - working as part of a team of scientists to accelerate scientific research.
• Build data processing tools - to process, analyse and visualise experimental data, looking for news ways to turn raw results into actionable insight at pace.
• Deliver your own development projects, but differently - taking ideas from concept to completion while contributing to the broader digital transformation of our research practice.
• Work at the interface of chemistry and data science - collaborating closely with the physical organic chemistry group to translate scientific problems into digital solutions and accelerate experimental interpretation.
• Explore and adopt emerging tools in digital chemistry - moving the organisation towards a self-driving, autonomous lab for process understanding.
• Bring curiosity and a problem solving mindset - we care more about how you think than ticking every box on a skills list.

Qualifications

• BSc or MSc in Chemistry, Digital Chemistry or a related discipline
• Laboratory and automation skills - with experience applying them to scientific problems
• Application of data science and quantitative analysis to interpret chemical systems.
• Ability to work collaboratively across chemistry and digital disciplines
• A genuine interest in how technology can transform laboratory research

Additional Information

Jealott's Hill International Research Centre UK is situated in pleasant semi-rural surroundings between Bracknell and Maidenhead and is the place of work for approximately 800 Syngenta scientists and support staff.  Jealott’s Hill is one of the main global research and development sites and key activities include research into discovery of new active ingredients, new formulation technologies, product safety and technical support of our product range.

What We Offer

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members.
• Extensive benefits package including a generous pension scheme, bonus scheme, private medical & life insurance.
• Up to 31.5 days annual holiday plus 8 UK bank holidays.
• 36-hour working week.

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. 

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