Applications Scientist
Paragraf
- Somersham, Cambridgeshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Undertake research and development activities for projects, prioritising activities to deliver performance improvements aligned with market and customer requirements.
- Contribute to a roadmap for products as required to solve customer pain points and business objectives.
- Contribute technical expertise and recommendations for development and commercial activities and longer-term planning; join technical discussions for partnerships and occasional customer visits for technical discussion and demonstrations.
- Undertake task and project management, ensuring objectives are delivered with key results regularly reviewed and reported.
- Propose and develop feasibility studies to support existing projects and enable new avenues of research, around both GMS and blue-sky applications with Paragraf graphene to enable new market opportunities.
- Provide performance data for customer facing documents for commercial and marketing colleagues, outlining key performance attributes of our devices vs. competition.
- Liaise with Technology, Development, Epitaxy and Production teams to ensure alignment of requirements to hit business objectives.
- Compile updates for meetings and reporting as required.
- Present results at external conferences as required.
- Complete other duties commensurate with the role’s level as requested by your team leader or manager
- Degree in chemistry, electrochemistry, physics or related fields, with industrial experience advantageous.
- Practical experience of electrochemical sensing
- Experience of planning and conducting experiments to achieve set objectives within a commercial environment
- Experience with surface chemistry and processing
- Experience of working flexibly to deliver project activities with a range of colleagues
- Experience in surface analytical techniques (e.g. SEM, AFM, Raman, XPS)
- Experience working with ion sensitive field effect transistors advantageous
- Experience working with, or good knowledge of, semiconductor devices
- Experience with fundamental electrochemical techniques
- Experience developing assays with bio molecules
- Experience of working with external partners effectively
- Good communication skills with the confidence to contribute to ideas generation to colleagues and collaborators
- Effectively communicate technical information, and to report on status of work in a timely manner to senior management
- Ability to present information clearly and appropriately for the audience
- Ability to handle several ongoing projects, and can prioritise and organise own workload
- Capability to work autonomously and make considered decisions
- Respect and adherence to confidentiality and critical matters
- Responsible for ensuring a safe and healthy work environment by complying with company policies and processes and all relevant regulations including the use of PPE, as appropriate to the level and scope of the role. This includes participation in health and safety training and reporting of any potential hazards or breaches of safety protocols in the appropriate manner.
- Willing to travel both domestically and abroad
- Group Personal Pension Plan- Employer contribution 5%, Employee contribution minimum 4%
- Private health insurance on completion of probation
- Share Option scheme
- Death in service of 3 times salary and income protection on completion of probation
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the chance to ‘purchase’ up to 5 additional days each year
- Personal and Professional Development Plans and support
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric Vehicle Lease Scheme
- Payroll Giving scheme
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