- South San Francisco, California, United States
- Hybrid
- Contract
- $68–$75 per hour
- 0–2 years
PhD organic chemist for a 9‑month contract to write experimental sections of patent applications, desk‑based with no laboratory work.
Compensation
The hourly rate for this role is $68/hr – $75/hr.
Responsibilities
- Write clear, reproducible experimental procedures for intermediates and final compounds in patent format
- Draft general procedures and synthetic schemes, mapping each example to the correct general method
- Compile and verify characterization data (¹H/¹³C NMR, LCMS, HRMS, chiral HPLC) and write data strings consistently
- Check every structure against its data, confirming NMR assignments, masses and stereochemistry
- Generate and check chemical names using ChemDraw, maintaining consistent numbering
Requirements
- PhD in Organic Chemistry