Analytical & Physical Chemist

What You'll Do6

• Write research-level chemistry problems built around the raw measurements you handle, such as titration curves, spectra, calorimetry output or electrochemistry data
• Set the expected answer and the reasoning path so a reviewer can confirm whether a model solved the problem
• Document each submission well enough that someone else can follow your method and check the result
• Choose problem topics from your own specialty, whether that is method validation, kinetics, thermodynamics or instrumental analysis
• Manage your own calendar and workload without a fixed weekly commitment
• Take on as many tasks as you want, with no cap on volume

Requirements4

• Hands-on experience fitting and analyzing your own raw lab measurements in Python or a comparable language
• Ability to write about technical work in your field with enough clarity for a research-level audience
• Record of working without supervision and setting your own deadlines
• Practical chemistry background grounded in real bench data, not theory alone

Preferred Qualifications6

• Master's or PhD in chemistry with substantial bench time
• Method validation under ICH guidance or ISO 17025
• Measurement-uncertainty budgets
• Fitting kinetic or thermodynamic models to your own data
• Public code, a thesis or papers that display your technical work
• Prior data annotation, data labeling or AI/ML evaluation experience

Who Should Apply

Chemists who already fit, plot and interpret their own instrument data in Python, and who can explain a method's limits in plain prose. A master's or PhD with real bench hours behind it fits best. Synthesis-only or computational-only backgrounds are a weaker match.

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