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| Job Title: |
Senior/Principal Downstream Process Engineer |
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| Company: |
LS9, Inc. |
| Job Location: |
South San Francisco, CA |
| Description: |
LS9 seeks a highly motivated Senior/Principal Downstream Process Development Engineer/Scientist to design, execute, and scale-up novel recovery processes to separate and purify various fuels and chemicals from aqueous fermentation broths. The ideal candidate will be experienced in the separation of multiphasic oil/water system utilizing a variety of mechanical, chemical, and other relevant unit operations. This hands-on position requires a desire and ability to work as an integral part of a multidisciplinary team, as well as the demonstration of a high degree of flexibility, creativity, and initiative applied to the various duties and aspects of the position. |
| Key Responsibilities: |
- Design, analyze, and optimize critical product recovery unit operations associated with LS9's unique fermentation process.
- Utilize a variety of relevant techniques and unit operations in developing cost effective separation processes to recover LS9's fuels and chemicals from complex fermentation broth.
- Keep abreast of current literature and techniques in separation technology and their potential application to LS9's internal projects.
- Continuously develop contributions to the company's intellectual property portfolio, author publications in the scientific literature, and present at industry conferences.
- Analyze, write up, and present experimental results to others in the company to expedite the development of our integrated product development in a collaborative team environment.
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| Qualifications: |
Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering/Oleochemistry or a related discipline with 7 or more years of postdoctoral experience (or equivalent industrial experience) in a research and development environment. B.S. or M.S. level candidates with additional relevant industrial experience will also receive consideration.
Candidate must have a solid understanding of analytic instrumentation (HPLC, LC/MS, GC/MS) and the theory and application of separation science, with consideration of process economics and scalability. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. Experience in the scale-up of oil/water separation processes to the pilot scale or beyond in an industrial setting (wastewater treatment, petrochemical, food, etc.) is highly desirable. Working knowledge of molecular biology, fermentation, and chemistry is a plus. |
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