Director, Analytical Chemistry

Moderna
📍 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 💼 Full time 🕒 Posted June 07, 2026

Job Description

The Role:

Moderna is seeking a Director, Analytical Chemistry to provide scientific, strategic, and organizational leadership for discovery-stage analytical chemistry activities supporting mRNA-lipid nanoparticle (LNP) research across a diverse portfolio of nucleic acid medicines. This leader will define and advance analytical strategies that enable rapid design-make-test-learn cycles across novel ionizable lipids, polymers, excipients, payloads, formulations, and delivery systems used in mRNA-LNP therapeutics and vaccines.

The successful candidate will serve as a senior analytical partner to medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry, formulation, delivery sciences, platform biology, and selected development functions to accelerate molecular design, analytical decision-making, and candidate progression. The individual will guide analytical approaches spanning small molecules, polymers and lipid characterization, impurity profiling, structure elucidation, or...

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Job Details

  • Location Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Job Type Full time
  • Category Physical Scientists
  • Posted Date June 07, 2026
  • Application Deadline July 17, 2026