# R&D Chemist I

Position Summary The R&D Chemist I is responsible for the formulation, development, evaluation, and commercialization of cosmetic and personal care products. This role requires hands-on experience developing and optimizing formulations across multiple product categories, including skin care, hair care, body care, fragrance, OTC, and color cosmetics. The Chemist will support new product innovation, reformulation initiatives, scale-up activities, raw material evaluations, and manufacturing support while ensuring compliance with regulatory and customer requirements. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Develop, formulate, and optimize cosmetic and personal care products from concept through commercialization. Create innovative formulations for skin care, hair care, bath and body, fragrance, OTC, and other personal care products. Conduct bench-scale formulation work involving emulsions, suspensions, surfactant systems, gels, creams, lotions, waxes, and anhydrous products. Reverse engineer competitive products and develop equivalent or improved formulations. Evaluate new raw materials, technologies, and ingredient trends for product development opportunities. Prepare laboratory batches

- **Id**: 3907494
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kdcone-rd-chemist-i>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chatsworth, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T08:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T00:41:44Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4500
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Natural Resources, Cosmetics & Makeup, Cleaning & Household Products, Personal Hygiene & Toiletries

## Company

- **Id**: 2466586
- **Name**: kdc/one
- **Domain**: kdc-one.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kdc-one>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Dayforce

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 24
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 22
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **GLP** — Optional: no
- **GMP** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no
- **Outlook** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T04:16:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 60
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.602
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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