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Associate Scientist, Analytical Sciences & Natural Products - San Diego, CA

San Diego (CA), United States💼 Full-time💰 $100,000–$100,000🗓 2026-08-05 → 2026-09-14

Core

Generate extracts and fractions from natural materials, isolate and characterize bioactive compounds, and scale up promising hits for health, nutrition, and beauty applications.

Role type

Associate Scientist, Analytical Sciences & Natural Products

Builds

Bioactive ingredients for health, nutrition, taste, perfumery, and beauty

Domain

Natural products chemistry, analytical chemistry, health & beauty

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

activity/properties-guided isolation, characterization of bioactive ingredients, HPLC, LC-MS, preparative HPLC, NMR, medicinal chemistry, Structure-Activity-Relationship (SAR), molecular networking

Preferred skills

computer-aided discovery, receptor-driven discovery, biotech reaction profiling

Responsibilities

Generate extracts and fractions from raw natural materials; Process new natural products fractions for receptor screening; Isolate and characterize promising hits; Scale up promising natural fractions; Maintain and troubleshoot analytical equipment

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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