NanoComposix is a privately-held R&D and manufacturing company that develops innovative nanomaterials for research and commercial markets. We manufacture hundreds of different variants of metal and metal-oxide core/shell nanocomposites for a wide range of applications including biosensors, medical devices, clinical diagnostics, and optical effects. Our mission is to help our clients bring nano-enabled products to market. We’re passionate about what we do and are looking for smart, energetic, and self-motivated individuals who take pride in their work to join our fun and innovative team in this exciting industry.
Benefits include medical and dental insurance, paid vacation and personal days, retirement plan with company-match, and an annual bonus program with opportunity for stock ownership in this employee-owned business.
You can see a list of our open opportunities below or go directly to our career application portal in the table.
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To protect the interests of all parties involved, nanoComposix requires a signed agreement to be in place prior to the presentation of any candidates. Nanocomposix does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from candidates for either current or future positions. Submission of unsolicited resumes in advance of a signed agreement between nanoComposix and the recruiter does not create any implied obligation on the part of nanoComposix. If and when a signed agreement is in place, the recruiter is responsible for following all submission policies set forth by nanoComposix as well as ensuring their candidates apply through the company website.
Updated July 29, 2020
A Production Chemist position is available at nanoComposix. This is a highly collaborative and hands on opportunity. Responsibilities include working with the team to ensure that the nanomaterial production schedule is maintained, all quality control measures are in place and followed, all nanomaterials are manufactured, processed and characterized as specified under a formal quality system, all team members are trained and have all of the tools necessary for success. See full list of responsibilities below.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Execute formulation and other lab activities
- Participates in Lean Initiatives and Activities.
- Assist in nonconforming and customer complaint investigation
- Ensuring that the manufacturing area is compliant with all required FDA, ISO and other applicable regulatory agency standards and documentation.
- Ensuring that the manufacturing area is compliant with the requirements associated with EHS, HR, Facilities, Housekeeping, etc.
- Maintains appropriate inventory levels of raw materials and supply items used in manufacturing.
- Develop and initiate policies and/or procedures for continual metric improvement.
- Assist when needed in both external and internal inventory audits.
- Review manufacturing records for accuracy and completeness in accordance with GMP.
- Coordinate lab shutdown activities to prevent production disruption.
- Actively contribute to team discussion, project planning and project execution
- Maintain an organized, safe and efficient work area at all times.
- Review batch records for accuracy and completeness.
- Resolve routine issues and escalate non-standard or critical issues
- Support new product transfer and validation and implementation of process improvements.
- Perform other duties and projects as assigned.
- Demonstrates commitment to the development, implementation and effectiveness of the Quality Management System per ISO, FDA and other regulatory agencies.
- Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal/external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company's policies and practices.
- Understands and is aware of the quality consequences which may occur from the improper performance of their specific job. Has awareness of device defects that may occur in their area of responsibility, including product design, verification and validation, manufacturing and testing activities.
Requirements
- BS in Chemistry or Biological Sciences
- 0-2 years’ experience in GMP chemistry manufacturing.
- Knowledgeable of federal and other regulations, e.g. QSR's, ISO, ISO 13485.
- Ability to perform laboratory operations with a high degree of skill, efficiency and professionalism.
- Basic understanding of manufacturing systems (documentation, compliance, inventory control, production scheduling/controls, etc.).
- Must be very detail oriented.
- Must work well in a fast-paced, start-up environment.
- Solid understanding of the product and manufacturing processes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Occasional safe lifting of up to 45 pounds
- US citizenship or green card.
- Candidates must be local to San Diego County
Application Process
Qualified candidates should create a pdf with both a cover letter and resume and apply online here. The cover letter should include information on how your previous experience relates to the job requirements and your availability. Specific examples are of interest. You will not be considered without a cover letter.
This job is located in San Diego, California.
Updated July 29, 2020
A Research Scientist position is available at nanoComposix. Responsibilities include working on a wide range of projects for government, academic and commercial clients (start-ups to Fortune 50). The applicant will leverage their knowledge of molecular biology to help build rapid pathogen detection systems based on isothermal amplification. The role is a hands-on in the lab. At nanoComposix we are helping accelerate many different technologies to market and the applicant will participate in all aspects of commercialization including project planning, research, and development, scale-up, transfer to manufacturing, quality, marketing, and commercial production.
Requirements
- Masters or PhD degree in chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering or nanoengineering with specific expertise in optimization of isothermal amplifications, LAMP in particular. Candidates with extensive experience, but bachelor’s degrees are also encouraged to apply.
- Ability to multi-task, handle frequently changing job functions, and rapidly learn new techniques and approaches.
- Great communicator and writer. Will be responsible for brainstorming new ideas for products and pitching early stage concepts both internally and externally.
- Must work well in a fast-paced, start-up environment.
- Must hold US citizenship or US green card
- Must be able to start work in a very short time frame.
Desired Skills
- Familiarity with the challenges of point of care diagnostics
- Experience in working in a BSL-2 facility
- An understanding of the regulatory path for diagnostics
- Experience working in compliance with an iso13485 quality system is desirable
Application Process
Qualified candidates should create a pdf with both a cover letter and resume and apply online here. The cover letter should include information on how your previous experience relates to the job requirements and your availability. Specific examples are of interest. You will not be considered without a cover letter.
This job is located in San Diego, California.
Updated June 16, 2020
The Quality Engineer is responsible for managing resources and/or staff to establish functional goals and to meet assigned objectives related to quality engineering activities including customer satisfaction, product quality and process reliability, design validation and transfer, process and change validation, complaint and non-conforming product investigation and corrective and preventive action. Strong experience in IVD and/or Pharmaceuticals is required.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Work with Senior Leadership and cross-functionally to establish strategies, priorities and goals for process and equipment validation, process reliability, risk management, failure analysis, trend analysis, statistical quality and process control; ensure initiatives are successfully implemented.
- Develop and implement process and equipment validations and qualifications supporting new product development, (contract) manufacturing transfer, on-going improvement
- Identify and eliminate waste; maintain sustainable results
- Understand customer needs; translate needs into actions for quality and process improvement
- Support implementation of strong long-term quality systems and controls
- Support fundamental and controlled quality improvements
- Ensure appropriate statistical tools and techniques are followed
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge
- Ensure cost effective measures and budget compliance within the function; develop cost saving initiatives to meet or exceed financial performance requirements
- Lead and motivate staff; promote employee involvement, operational excellence, internal career development, and foster positive organizational culture
- Exercise good judgment within defined policies and procedures; develop and implement process changes that foster improvements and ensure objectives are met
- Identify, review and analyze issues within the function; develop and implement goals and changes that foster improvements and ensure objectives are met
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (technical discipline) or equivalent, plus a minimum of five (5) to seven (7) years previous progressive experience; quality and process improvements, project management and business process analysis experience within a IVD or pharmaceutical environment strongly preferred
- Previous supervisory/management experience desired
- Excellent knowledge of quality engineering principles including risk management, failure analysis, process validation, process reliability, trend analysis, statistical quality control, statistical process control and descriptive statistics
- Knowledge of process management methodologies required
- Must be able to develop and deploy design of experiment tools/techniques
- Knowledge of quality analysis tools/techniques such as Pareto chart, run charts, scatters diagrams, regression analysis and diagrams is required
- Knowledge of quality improvement team facilitation tools/techniques such as agenda planning, group facilitation and decision-making, brainstorming, group effeminizing and prioritizing is required
- Excellent planning, problem solving and organizational skills required
- Previous experience working on projects and issues with large impact preferred
- Strong focus on collaboration and team work
- Excellent technical writing and communication skills required
Application Process
Qualified candidates should create a pdf with both a cover letter and resume and apply online here. The cover letter should include information on how your previous experience relates to the job requirements and your availability. Specific examples are of interest. You will not be considered without a cover letter.
This job is located in San Diego, California.
Updated Jan 13, 2020
NanoComposix is searching for Project Managers and Senior Scientists to lead projects, manage scientific staff, and to bring lateral flow assays to market. This is a unique opportunity to leverage nanoComposix’s innovations in lateral flow R&D including ultra-bright reporter particles, covalent chemistry, and next-generation mobile point of care readers. The candidate will be expected to lead technical teams for assay development as well as support commercialization activities for both nanoComposix’s proprietary assays and assays developed for external clients.
A number of open positions at the senior level are available. The specific job description will depend on the candidate’s prior experience. Responsibilities include managing a highly motivated and innovative team of assay developers, transitioning R&D assays into an ISO 13485 compliant quality system, and coordinating regulatory and manufacturing activities for commercialization. The candidate will work closely with senior management to develop strategic plans for product development and expanding operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD degree in chemistry, biochemistry, bioengineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience of immunoassay development
- Demonstrated track record of solving challenging issues with assay design, development, and optimization
- Excellent organizational and project management capabilities to facilitate internal and external scientific interactions
- Experience managing direct reports
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for generating high-quality proposals, presentations, and reports for clients
- Ability to multi-task, manage multiple projects and rapidly learn new techniques and approaches.
- Ability to work effectively in a cross-disciplinary environment.
- Must excel in a fast-paced, start-up environment
- Due to government contractual obligations, US citizenship or green card is a requirement for this position
Desired Skills
- Demonstrated track record of bringing point-of-care diagnostics from feasibility through transfer to manufacturing
- Direct, hands-on experience generating analytical assay development, optimization, and validation data packages in accordance with regulatory requirements
- Previous experience with ELISAs, antibody conjugation, protein purification, and fluorescent labeling
- Experience with cGMP / ISO 13485 compliant quality systems and the 510k approval process
- Drafting and release of standard operating procedures and batch production records
- Highly motivated and innovative problem solver able to independently design, execute, troubleshoot, and interpret experiments within a co-operative matrixed team environment.
- Experience working directly with clients
Application Process
Qualified candidates should create a pdf with both a cover letter and resume and apply online here. The cover letter should include information on how your previous experience relates to the job requirements and your availability. Specific examples are of interest. You will not be considered without a cover letter.
This job is located in San Diego, California.
Job Description
The Process Chemist works cross-functionally with Development, Manufacturing, and Quality to support process development of nanomaterials from external and internal R&D sources through design control, process validation, to release to manufacturing /commercialization, and post-release product support /continuous improvement. The Process Chemist responsibilities encompass Quality and Process Engineering functions.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Other duties may be assigned.
- Support nanomaterial product development from R&D through commercialization
- Leading technical and operations expert for new product introductions, manufacturing and production process development, improvement, and sustaining efforts
- Independently and collaboratively design, executes, and directs controlled experiments and projects to optimize processes, address yield and quality issues, drive implementation of solutions in controlled manufacturing and production environment
- Batch Record, SOP development and training
- Validation Protocol development through execution and reporting
- Collaborates with other engineers, scientists, product managers, and staff to review the projects design, manufacturing, and test documentation; ensures that program or contract quality requirements are met
- Identifies root causes of problems in the manufacturing and production process; recommends and/or implements corrective measures.
Qualifications
Education
- B.Sc., or M.Sc. with synthetic research and development experience preferred
Experience
- At least three years prior lab experience
- At least three years prior biotech, medical device, diagnostic, pharmaceutical, or nanotechnology industry experience
- Experience in production support, process development, and project management skills
- Experience in aseptic processes desired
Knowledge/Skill
- Detail-oriented
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Laboratory skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Extensive knowledge of or the ability to quickly learn manufacturing and production processes
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, laboratory analytical and statistical software, and other related software
Additional Information
Application Process
Qualified candidates should submit a cover letter and resume here. The cover letter should include information on how your previous experience relates to the job requirements and your availability. Specific examples are of interest. You will not be considered without a cover letter.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Updated May 6, 2019
A research associate is needed to assist with developing next-generation lateral flow tests based on both fluorescent and plasmonic particles. We are seeking a highly motivated individual with ability to design and conduct robust and efficient experiments to solve difficult technical problems. Must be able to work independently under supervision of a project manager, and be able to clearly document and communicate results. The applicant should be familiar with optimizing lateral flow assays and bioconjugation in general.
Responsibilities will include the functionalization of nanoparticles with antibodies and other targeting agents, assembling and running of lateral flow strips, and optimizing these devices to increase sensitivity and minimize non-specific background.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in chemistry, biochemistry, bioengineering, or related field
- Experience with bioconjugation to surfaces or particles
- Experience with analytical, physical, inorganic, and organic chemistry laboratory procedures, techniques and equipment.
- Research experience in a relevant field of study.
- Ability to multi-task, handle frequently changing job functions, and rapidly learn new techniques and approaches.
- Good organizational skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Must work well in a fast-paced, start-up environment.
- Due to government contractual obligations, US citizenship or green card is a requirement for this position
Desired Skills
- Lateral flow development
- Bioassays, antibody conjugation, fluorescent labeling
- Experience fabricating, functionalizing, and processing nanomaterials
- Strong instrumentation background including optical microscopy, UV-Vis, DLS, Zeta-Potential, DLS, TEM, or SEM
- Experience with analytical, physical, inorganic, and organic chemistry laboratory procedures, techniques and equipment.
- Familiar with cGMP or ISO 13485 compliant quality systems
Application Process
Qualified candidates should create a pdf with both a cover letter and resume and apply online here. The cover letter should include information on how your previous experience relates to the job requirements and your availability. Specific examples are of interest. You will not be considered without a cover letter.
Updated November 19, 2019
A Research Scientist position is available at nanoComposix. Responsibilities include working on a wide range of projects for government, academic and commercial clients (start-ups to Fortune 50). The applicant will leverage their nanoparticle synthesis background to fabricate stock products, custom products, and to develop new products that provide order-of-magnitude increases in performance or enable products that would not be possible without nanotechnology. At nanoComposix we are helping accelerate many different technologies to market and the applicant will participate in all aspects of commercialization including project planning, research, and development, scale-up, transfer to manufacturing, quality, marketing, and commercial production.
Requirements
- Masters or PhD degree in chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering or nanoengineering with experience in nanoparticle fabrication
- Experience with analytical, physical, inorganic, or organic chemistry laboratory procedures, techniques, and equipment.
- Ability to multi-task, handle frequently changing job functions, and rapidly learn new techniques and approaches.
- Great communicator and writer. Will be responsible for brainstorming new ideas for products and pitching early stage concepts both internally and externally.
- Must work well in a fast-paced, start-up environment.
- Must hold US citizenship or US green card
Desired Skills
- Fabrication of sol-gel, quantum dot, metal/metal oxide, polymer, core-shell nanoparticles, and composites.
- Synthesis of unagglomerated, low coefficient of variation metal and metal oxide nanoparticles (e.g. gold, silver, copper, platinum, magnetite, TiO2, SiO2, nanoparticles).
- Strong analytical background including experience with TEM, DLS, Zeta Potential, and optical microscopy and spectroscopy.
- Nanoparticle surface functionalization for transfer between organic and aqueous dispersions.
- Pilot or production scale chemistry including reactor design, production scale manufacturing, or continuous flow processes.
- Experience with the bioconjugation of targeting molecules to surfaces or particles
Application Process
Qualified candidates should create a pdf with both a cover letter and resume and apply online here. The cover letter should include information on how your previous experience relates to the job requirements and your availability. Specific examples are of interest. You will not be considered without a cover letter.
This job is located in San Diego, California.
Updated November 5, 2019
A nanoparticle synthesis research associate position is available at nanoComposix. Responsibilities include working with the product team to fabricate and characterize nanoparticles, prepare specification sheets, and carefully follow standard operating procedures for the large-scale production of nanoparticles. For candidates that have recently graduated, there are internship opportunities available with the possibility of converting to a full-time position.
Requirements
- Bachelors or Masters degree in chemistry, biochemistry or nanoengineering with a strong chemistry background or minor in chemistry.
- Experience with analytical, physical, inorganic, or organic chemistry laboratory procedures, techniques, and equipment.
- Research experience in a relevant field of study.
- Ability to multi-task, handle frequently changing job functions, and rapidly learn new techniques and approaches.
- Pays significant attention to detail and carefully documents all experimental procedures, observations, and methodology.
- Ability to keep organized data and records.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong computer skills including MS word, excel, and powerpoint.
- US citizenship or green card
Desired Skills
- Experience fabricating, functionalizing, and processing nanomaterials
- Experience with the bioconjugation of targeting molecules to surfaces or particles
- Experience with optical microscopes, UV-Vis, DLS, Zeta-Potential,TEM, or SEM.
Application Process
Qualified candidates should submit a resume and cover letter online here. The cover letter should include information on how your previous experience relates to the job requirements and your availability. Specific examples are of interest. You will not be considered without a cover letter. Candidate should be prepared to demonstrate their chemistry knowledge during the interview process.
Internship opportunities are available for recent graduates.
All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
