Chemical Data Scientist
Valdera·about 2 months ago
We are a team of ambitious, results-driven individuals with a proven track record of working with Fortune 500 industrial manufacturers, beauty brands, and chemical companies. We are a fast-growing company that hires talented, hardworking people who excel in high-performance environments and want to grow their careers quickly.
Role Responsibilities:
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Design and build pipelines to collect supplier data and chemical product information (specifications, CAS numbers, certifications, SDS/regulatory documents, NAICS classification of manufacturing plants) from supplier sites, distributor catalogs, trade databases, and other public and semi-structured sources
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Develop and maintain web scrapers and automated ETL workflows to keep supplier and product data current at scale
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Clean, normalize, and reconcile inconsistent supplier data into structured, standardized formats suitable for internal tools and analytics
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Apply chemical domain knowledge to validate and enrich data — resolving product names, CAS numbers, synonyms, and specifications across suppliers
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Evaluate and improve matching and classification models to map suppliers and products to buyer requirements, and to identify overlapping or equivalent chemical offerings
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Partner with Supplier Management and Engineering to define data quality standards, identify gaps in supplier coverage, and prioritize new data sources.
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Own pipeline health and data quality, and drive the KPIs that measure overall data coverage
Experience & Qualifications:
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5+ years of experience in a data science, data engineering, or applied data role, ideally with exposure to messy, real-world or industrial datasets.
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Working knowledge of chemistry or chemical industry data — comfort with CAS numbers, chemical properties, SDS documents, NAICS classification, and supplier certifications
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Strong Python skills, with experience building web scrapers and data pipelines
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Experience with data cleaning and normalization at scale, and a good eye for spotting inconsistencies in unstructured data
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Familiarity with building or applying matching, deduplication, or classification models (traditional ML or LLM-based approaches)
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Hands-on experience using AI tools and LLMs to accelerate data extraction, enrichment, or engineering workflows
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Startup mindset with a strong sense of ownership — comfortable working independently in a fast-moving, remote environment with ambiguous, evolving priorities
Market context
Measured from remote postings we have tracked ourselves — not self-reported survey data.
What Senior Data Science roles in Americas pay
- 25th
- $114k
- Median
- $145k
- 75th
- $182k
Based on 4,019 comparable postings with disclosed salaries, last 12 months.
How Valdera is hiring
- Last 90 days
- 2 roles
- Total tracked
- 18
- Hiring across
- 5 job families
Tracked since July 2022.