Associate Scientist, Analytical Sciences & Natural Products

Location: San Diego, CA, United States

Salary: $100,000–$120,000 per year, excluding bonuses and benefits.

Company

Science-led organization developing ingredients and applications for health, nutrition, taste, perfumery, and beauty through research, creativity, and sustainability.

What you will do

• Generate extracts and fractions from raw natural materials, including plants and fungi, in line with project priorities and OKRs.
• Process natural-product fractions for receptor screening across health, nutrition, taste, perfumery, beauty, and other programs.
• Isolate and help characterize promising hits and compounds from natural extracts.
• Collaborate with chemists, data scientists, biologists, and other global science experts, including on biotech reaction profiling.
• Scale promising natural fractions and compounds for further evaluation.
• Maintain and troubleshoot analytical equipment in the Naturals Lab.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Analytical Chemistry, Natural Products and Pharmacognosy, or Synthetic Chemistry.
• At least 3 years of experience in activity- or properties-guided isolation and characterization of bioactive and bio-functional ingredients.
• A record of accomplishments demonstrating high drive and entrepreneurial innovation.
• Strong analytical chemistry skills and the ability to use advanced technologies to accelerate the isolation, analysis, and characterization of complex molecules.
• Expert handling of analytical equipment used for natural products, including HPLC, LC-MS, preparative HPLC, and NMR.
• Familiarity with modern medicinal chemistry and structure–activity relationship (SAR).
• Familiarity with molecular networking and other computational tools for natural-product discovery.
• Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and innovation skills, with the ability to work independently and in a multidisciplinary environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Science-led, multicultural, interdisciplinary, and highly collaborative research environment.
• Career growth and opportunities to develop expertise and leadership.
• Competitive pay, annual incentive opportunities, retirement savings plan, healthcare coverage, paid time off, recognition programs, and other benefits.
• Research community of more than 2,000 scientists with substantial annual science and research investment.
• Equal-opportunity and inclusive workplace with support available during the application process.

Hiring process

• Apply online by uploading a resume in English by August 19, 2026.
• Applications from agencies and proposals involving fees or commissions are not accepted.