Research Associate, Analytical Chemistry (Oligonucleotide API)

Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States; onsite laboratory role. Day shift with no travel required.

Salary: $85,840–$134,125 per year, plus eligibility for bonus, stock, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides life science, diagnostic, and applied market laboratories with instruments, services, consumables, applications, and expertise, including solutions for nucleic acid therapeutics and oligonucleotide API manufacturing.

What you will do

• Design and conduct laboratory-scale analytical experiments supporting API testing and method validation.
• Use analytical platforms including HPLC/UPLC, HPLC-MS, ICP-MS, IC, GC, GC-MS, UV, and Karl Fischer.
• Author method validation protocols and reports in accordance with ICH guidelines and hirify.global SOPs.
• Record, summarize, and present experiments and research findings to internal teams.
• Operate, troubleshoot, and perform routine preventative maintenance on laboratory equipment.
• Maintain compliance with SOPs and applicable current good manufacturing practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in chemistry or a related applied science field.
• 4 years of relevant experience.
• Experience following SOPs for analytical method execution, including HPLC/UPLC and HPLC-MS.
• Ability to work with interdisciplinary project teams, understand project requirements, and follow project timelines.

Nice to have

• Experience with IC, GC, GC-MS, UV, or Karl Fischer.
• Experience in a cGMP-regulated environment.
• Knowledge of analytical test methods for oligonucleotide APIs or related molecules.
• Experience with method validation.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time schedule with a day shift and no defined end date.
• Work is based at hirify.global’s contract API manufacturing facility in Boulder, Colorado.
• Eligibility for bonus, stock, and benefits.
• Inclusive, merit-based workplace committed to equal employment opportunity and accessibility.