We are looking for a Research Engineer to become part of our team at the Division of Food and Nutrition Science, Department of Life Sciences at Chalmers University of Technology. Join our innovative team and contribute to exciting research in life sciences in a collaborative and dynamic environment.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Research Engineer, you will provide analytical and technical support to the ongoing research at the Food and Nutriton Science Division. Your responsibilities will include development of methods, analysis of samples and maintenance of instruments at the division. You will also have a responsibility to train undergraduate students, PhD-students and post docs within a range of analytical techniques, particularly in chromatography and mass spectrometry.
In this role, you will interact in project groups with senior researchers, PhD-students, postdocs, students as well as with external guest, eg. from industry and/or other institutions. You will be expected to collaborate closely with other Research Engineers at the Division and Department and with specific analytical platforms at Chalmers, such as Chalmers Mass Spectrometry Infrastructue which is part of the national metabolomics infrastructure at SciLifelab.
Depending on the experience and documented qualifications, the holder of the position can either be empolyed as a Research Engineer or as a Senior Research Engineer.

THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE FULFILLS THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS:

• Analytical chemistry on MSc-level or PhD-level or corresponding
• Expert competence in chromatographic techniques and mass spectrometry
• Eperience from state-of-the-art sample preparation techniques
• Experience from development and validation of analytical methods adpated to a broad set of sample matrices
• Experience from efficient reporting of analytical results
• Experience from instrument maintenance
• Very good communication skills in verbal and written English

Please refer the Job description for details