# Emerging Threat Chemist

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Defense

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## Description

The Non-Kinetic Effects Business Area at Leidos has an opening for an Emerging Threat Chemist at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command – Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) facility.

You will work on advancing the DEVCOM CBC Threat Agent Sciences Mission across programs in environmental response, employment characterization, and chemical agent first-look applications.

Key responsibilities include:

- Supporting research programs as a principal investigator, technical lead, or research team member

- Participating in agent operations, including chemical synthesis, instrumental analysis and testing, and controlled environmental-exposure experiments

- Analyzing samples using analytical instrumentation and methods such as thermal desorption, pyrolysis, GC-FPD, GC-MS, LC-MS, and LC-MS/MS

- Preparing analytical standards and determining chemical physical properties

- Developing, revising, and maintaining laboratory procedures, test plans, research documentation, and technical reports

Basic qualifications:

- BS degree with 5+ years experience in a chemistry, analytical chemistry, environmental science, chemical engineering, toxicology, materials science, or related scientific discipline

- Experience conducting laboratory research involving hazardous materials, chemical analysis, environmental fate, chemical properties, or related technical areas

- Working knowledge of chromatographic and mass-spectrometric analytical techniques

- Experience preparing analytical standards and performing instrument calibration

- Ability to develop laboratory procedures, test plans, technical reports, and progress updates

Preferred qualifications:

- MS degree with 2+ years experience in aforementioned technical fields

- Prior experience working across multiple program areas under one role

- Previous experience with/enrollment in chemical safety and monitoring programs

The pay range for this job is $73,450.00 - $132,775.00.

## Skills

### Required
- synthetic chemistry
- toxicology
- analytical chemistry
- chromatography
- mass spectrometry
- chemical synthesis
- instrumental analysis

### Nice to have
- chemical safety and monitoring programs
- Personnel Reliability Program (PRP)

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