# Chemical Engineer / Polymer Scientist

About AKIN AKIN is a Dutch biotech startup developing a novel enzymatic platform for rubber recycling (Kinfinity). We convert end-of-life rubber, including devulcanised rubber feedstock, into high-value chemical products and materials, targeting applications in tyres and industrial rubber goods. The Role We are looking for a Chemical Engineer / Polymer Scientist to own the chemistry that happens before and after our enzymes do their work: separation and purification. That means cleaning up real rubber feedstock before the enzymatic step, by removing oils, additives, fillers and metals, and separating and purifying the polymer and oligomer streams that come out of it. This is a hands-on, benchtop role. Most of your week is spent in the lab designing and running experiments, not managing them from a desk. You are the person in the team who understands how these streams behave and how to get a clean, characterised product out of them. We are an early-stage company, and we will give you real ownership. We expect you to spot the next problem and go after it without waiting to be asked. Key Responsibilities Feedstock pre-treatment: developing and optimising pre-wash and decontamina

- **Id**: 3924833
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/akin-chemical-engineer-polymer-scientist>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Delft, Netherlands
- **Countries**: NL
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T14:23:36Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T14:23:36Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4272
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Industrial Biotechnology

## Company

- **Id**: 4424783
- **Name**: AKIN
- **Domain**: akin.bio
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/akin-4>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 50000
- **Max**: 60000
- **Currency**: EUR
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 66861

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Netherlands** — Iso: NL; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T18:15:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: seen:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 66861
- **Is top pay**: no

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