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# Digital Chemist - Lab Automation & Data Science

- **Company:** Syngenta
- **Location:** Warfield, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Experimental Data, Hardware Design, Data Processing, Build Management
- **Published:** June 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=92af7dc019e7b2f9

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Laboratory experience?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * BSc or MSc in Chemistry, Digital Chemistry or a related discipline

 * Laboratory and automation skills - with experience applying them to scientific problems
 * Application of data science and quantitative analysis to interpret chemical systems.
 * Ability to work collaboratively across chemistry and digital disciplines
 * A genuine interest in how technology can transform laboratory research

## Description

We're looking for a chemist who thinks in code & data science as comfortably as they think in reactions. Based at our Jealott's Hill research site, you'll join the Physical Organic Chemistry team within the Process Studies Group - a team pushing the boundaries of how chemistry is done, understood, and accelerated. You'll help to develop critical self-driving experimentation that makes our science faster, smarter, and more reproducible - while also delivering your own development projects and working shoulder-to-shoulder with chemists on real research challenges. If you're excited by the journey towards a self-driving, autonomous lab - and you want to do it in an environment where your ideas will actually land - this is the role for you., * Design and build automated lab workflows - from hardware integration to data capture - working as part of a team of scientists to accelerate scientific research.

 * Build data processing tools - to process, analyse and visualise experimental data, looking for news ways to turn raw results into actionable insight at pace.
 * Deliver your own development projects, but differently - taking ideas from concept to completion while contributing to the broader digital transformation of our research practice.
 * Work at the interface of chemistry and data science - collaborating closely with the physical organic chemistry group to translate scientific problems into digital solutions and accelerate experimental interpretation.
 * Explore and adopt emerging tools in digital chemistry - moving the organisation towards a self-driving, autonomous lab for process understanding.
 * Bring curiosity and a problem solving mindset - we care more about how you think than ticking every box on a skills list.


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