Director/Senior Director, Characterization
Cambridge, MA USA
Company Summary
Flagship Labs 97 Inc. (FL97) is a privately held, early-stage technology company pioneering the application of artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the scientific method. FL97 is backed by Flagship Pioneering, which brings the courage, long-term vision, and resources needed to realize unreasonable results. Join our mission-driven team and contribute to the future of science.
Our Physical Sciences effort is developing a novel AI and data-driven approach to materials discovery and development to accelerate the transition to a sustainable economy.
At FL97, we are uniquely cross-functional and collaborative. We are actively reimagining the way teams work together and communicate. Therefore, we seek individuals with an inclusive mindset and a diversity of thought. Our teams thrive in unstructured and creative environments. All voices are heard because we know that experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way.
If this sounds like an environment you’d love to work in, even if you only have some of the experience listed below, please apply.
The Role:
FL97 is seeking a thoughtful and dynamic Director/Sr Director of Characterization to join our team. The individual will help to shape our physical sciences characterization efforts through the leadership of an exceptional team, ideation of new scientific campaigns, and establishment of critical capabilities and valuable workflows. The role reports into the Head of R&D.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of scientists and engineers across all characterization efforts
- Troubleshoot workflows and instruments related to characterization efforts
- Develop new characterization methods that meet throughput and quality specifications
- Contribute to the ideation of new scientific campaigns in an effort to bring new materials for sustainability into the world
- Execute characterization steps in scientific campaigns
- Work closely with Product Managers to design ideal characterization workflows, and clearly communicate characterization results
- Provide expertise to Product Managers to support the development of target product profiles, updating characterization capabilities as needed to deliver product candidates
- Collaborate with Synthesis, Testing, Software, ML, and Automation/Engineering teams to ensure data flow from all characterization capabilities
- Collaborate with Physical Sciences leadership to identify consultants to support new capability builds
- Project manage the build of experiment capabilities and their deployment in science campaigns
- Manage characterization CAPEX including vendor relationships and budget requests
- Assist in characterization strategy and planning for new and existing automated and autonomous workflows with deep integration of AI
- Demonstrate clear and thoughtful communication
Qualifications:
- Organized with strong project management skills
- Data focused with experience dominated by experimental knowledge and a leaning towards data science and computation
- Experience with XRD, SEM, EDS, TGA, DSC, XRF
- Experience with data science and visualization
- Experience working with multiple material types
- Demonstrated innovation in characterization methods to increase scientific value of experiment workflows
- Strong background in chemistry and physics of solid-state materials
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience interfacing with computational materials science
- Background in signal processing and uncertainty quantification
- Can balance strategic thinking while executing and getting into the weeds on a regular basis
Location: Cambridge, MA
More About Flagship Pioneering
Flagship Pioneering is a platform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture. Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.
Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
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