patsnap - Materials & Polymers Domain Specialist

• These three are non-negotiable; everything else is trainable. • Polymer science depth. Masters in polymer science, chemistry, materials science, or chemical engineering — or a Bachelors with equivalent industry experience — with command of polymer structure and representation, demonstrated by the ability to: • read and interpret repeat structural units (SRUs): bracket notation, attachment points, end groups, and the difference between a monomer, a repeat unit, and the polymer itself; • interpret generic and Markush polymer structures in patents — variable substituents (R-groups), their textual definitions and scope, and what a generic claim does and does not disclose; • distinguish polymer architectures (linear, branched, block, graft, random, network) and recognize when an architecture is stated versus merely permitted; • parse composition and formulation descriptions: homopolymer vs. copolymer vs. blend, constituent roles (base polymer, crosslinker, filler, catalyst, additive), quantity bases (wt%, phr, mol%), and nested or intermediate compositions; • bind properties correctly — knowing that a monomer's property is not its polymer's, a component's property is not the blend's, and a typical grade value is not a measured example result. • Hands-on formulation, synthesis, or characterization experience counts as much as academic credentials — but this scientific judgment is the heart of the role and will be tested at interview against real patent examples. • Quality by process. Demonstrated experience managing quality through structured process — lab quality systems (GLP/ISO), audit readiness, structured review workflows, or data QC by sampling and metrics — rather than ad-hoc checking. • Delivery management. Experience managing projects, teams, or external partners against defined deliverables, schedules, and acceptance criteria. • ## You likely come from one of these backgrounds • We are deliberately recruiting from several adjacent pools. Strength in one of these, plus the core requirements above, is a complete application — you do not need to tick every box. • Industry polymer/materials scientist moving toward data: formulation, adhesives, coatings, or specialty-chemicals R&D, ideally with exposure to digitalization, master data, or lab-informatics initiatives. • Patent professional with chemistry depth: patent analyst, searcher, examiner, or IP-firm scientist specializing in polymers or chemistry. • Scientific content/curation operations: curation, content QC, taxonomy, or ontology work at a scientific database or content provider — provided you also have genuine chemistry or materials depth, not solely content-workflow experience. • Cheminformatics or materials informatics: research institute or industry roles in materials data, structure representation, or chemical databases. • ## We will train you on • Curation operations mechanics: gold standards, inter-annotator agreement, sampling-based QC design. • Patsnap's data contracts, schemas, and the Patsnap Materials Ontology. • Knowledge-graph and search-evaluation concepts. • ## Nice-to-have • Applied AI/ML literacy: evaluating LLM or ML extraction output (error analysis, precision/recall, gold-standard evaluation design) or working in AI-assisted annotation workflows. Model building is not required — that stays with our engineering teams. • Experience managing outsourced or distributed annotation/curation teams. • Knowledge-graph or ontology experience (property graphs, SKOS/OWL, entity resolution). • Scripting ability (Python or similar) for validation, sampling, and QC automation. • Familiarity with information retrieval or search-relevance evaluation. • Cheminformatics tooling (structure representations, SMILES/InChI, structure normalization).