R&D Chemist 1 at Millipore Corporation in Tempe, Arizona

Job Description:

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Electronics.


Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you've got big plans - so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.


Everything we do in EMD Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high-tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries. We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers.


This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.



Your Role:



The R&D Technician role will support new CMP slurry product research and development, with an emphasis on Metal Barrier CMP. They will work in a team consisting of other chemists/scientists to assist the development of next generation CMP slurries and provide technical solutions to semiconductor industry needs. Specific responsibilities include:

• Understand and follow proper laboratory safety protocols for handling chemicals, including wearing proper protective equipment.


• Perform laboratory duties, including formulating CMP slurry according to batch sheets and protocols, calibrating/maintaining lab tools, measuring physical properties, and general lab cleaning/organization.


• Lab tools include pH, conductivity, moisture analyzer, viscosity, contact angle, particle size and counting, electrochemistry, zeta potential.


• Perform other laboratory duties as assigned, such as sample stability, or tests to understand slurry performance mechanisms and fundamentals.


• Assist the Research Scientist with project related tasks.


• Data process, analysis, and reporting.


• Work closely with internal teams, e.g. analytical and engineering teams.


• Work closely with customer technology team and assist the develop new CMP product that meets customer requirements.


• Highly organized, good communication skills, open minded, and highly motivated.

Who You Are




Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED


• Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry, Material Science, or other scientific disciplines


• 2+ years of experience in general laboratory techniques

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Chemistry, Material Science or other scientific disciplines


• Working experience with semiconductor industry or chemical material industry

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