Worth applying100 Eli Lilly and Company · US: Indianapolis IN Tech Center North, United States of America

Process Chemist SMDD - BS/MS

Skills and tasks

Suggested skills

  • Reaction Optimization via Design of Experiments (DoE)
  • Process Analytical Technology (PAT)
  • Automated Flow Chemistry

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Tasks from the posting

  • Laboratory area safety maintenance

    Your edge
  • Laboratory experiment execution

    Your edge
  • Process condition optimization

    You + AI
  • Material quantity preparation

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  • Chemical process scale-up interfacing

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  • Chromatography and crystallization purification

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  • Spectroscopy operation and interpretation

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14%
of this job is already automatable.
86% is classified as human or shared work.
0 AI does it2 You + AI5 Your edgeof 7 duties

Your edge · 3 things

  • Physical execution of multi-step organic synthesis inside wet-lab containment hoods.
  • Diagnosing physical scale-up failures including foaming, exotherms, and unpredicted crystallization fouling.
  • Operational oversight of hazardous reagents and chemical hygiene in compliance with laboratory safety protocols.
The fieldgrowing · 10+ years

Rising pharmaceutical pipeline volume and federal pressure for robust domestic active ingredient supply chains drive sustained demand for process chemists. Route optimization and yield improvement directly lower commercial production costs for high-value therapeutics.

Do this week

  1. Reaction Optimization via Design of Experiments (DoE)Allows rapid systematic optimization of reaction parameters, drastically reducing the number of physical bench trials.
  2. Process Analytical Technology (PAT)Enables in-situ reaction monitoring (e.g., ReactIR, FBRM), positioning the chemist for modern automated manufacturing environments.
  3. SynthiaIdentifying robust synthetic routes for candidate compounds prior to lab execution.

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