# Chemical Data Scientist at Valdera

- Company: Valdera
- What the company does: Valdera is the sourcing and procurement platform that makes it easy to buy or sell chemicals, ingredients, and raw materials. We partner with segment leaders, ranging from the world's largest CPG manufacturers to household names in the beauty industry. Backed by Index.
- Company website: https://www.valdera.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote, San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/valdera/0e194789-14c4-4352-979c-9826b846bae1
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/valdera-chemical-data-scientist/

## About the role

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 Develop and maintain web scrapers and automated ETL workflows to keep supplier and product data current at scale

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience in a data science, data engineering, or applied data role, ideally with exposure to messy, real-world or industrial datasets
- Working knowledge of chemistry or chemical industry data — comfort with CAS numbers, chemical properties, SDS documents, NAICS classification, and supplier certifications
- Strong Python skills, with experience building web scrapers and data pipelines
- Experience with data cleaning and normalization at scale, and a good eye for spotting inconsistencies in unstructured data
- Familiarity with building or applying matching, deduplication, or classification models (traditional ML or LLM-based approaches)
- Hands-on experience using AI tools and LLMs to accelerate data extraction, enrichment, or engineering workflows

Tags: Data