Canatu (CANATU, Nasdaq First North, Finland) is a fast-growing deep technology company creating advanced carbon nanotubes (Canatu CNTs), related products, and manufacturing equipment for the semiconductor, automotive, and medical diagnostics industries. Canatu partners with forerunner companies, together transforming products for better tomorrows with nano carbon.

Canatu's versatile platform technology has broad potential applications. Its current core includes CNT membranes for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) processes in the semiconductor industry, enabling the manufacturing of the most advanced chips, as well as film heaters for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) in the automotive industry. Additionally, electrochemical sensors for medical diagnostics are in the development phase. Canatu’s patented CNT reactors and Dry Deposition^TM method yield clean and pristine CNTs. The company operates through two business models: selling CNT products directly, as well as selling CNT reactors and licensing the related technology so that customers can produce CNT products under a limited license.

Headquartered in Finland, Canatu also operates in the US, Japan, Vietnam and Taiwan. Founded in 2004 as a spin-off from Aalto University’s Nanomaterials Group, Canatu currently has 140 employees representing over 30 nationalities, with 20 percent holding or pursuing doctorates. Discover more at www.canatu.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

We are looking for a

Lab Assistant for temporary role, duration 6 months

To support Canatu’s R&D scientists in biosensor development with emphasis on analysis of CNT and evaluating its performance as functional sensors.

Responsibility:

• Support R&D team in daily laboratory tasks and operations including sample preparation, R&D and Quality control testing, and collecting analysis results
• Data reporting and documentation
• Support the laboratory tools management and monitoring
• Operate according to the best lab practices considering GMP and HSE requirements
• Other R&D and production related supporting activates as required

Experience, Skills, and Attitude:

• Completed or on-going relevant education/vocational background as laboratory technician, Chemical Laboratory assistant
• BSc or Vocation degree in chemistry or comparable degree
• Prior knowledge of lab safety practices, analytical chemistry, chemical laboratory work and/or material characterization is a must
• Prior knowledge of electrochemical sensor and quality control aspects is considered an advantage
• Good English written and verbal communication
• Ability to learn fast, work systematically in continuously dynamic environment

ABOUT CANATU

As an entrepreneurial company, you will be a part of a dynamic and forward-looking scale-up with great team spirit and peer support. At Canatu, the following core values define who we are and who we want to be, guiding us in our day-to-day work:

• Curiosity to discover provides us with the spark that takes us out into the world to observe and find.
• Commitment to achieve is how we take those discoveries from ideas to something concrete.
• Collaboration for impact is required to develop what we create into impactful and meaningful products.
• Passion for progress keeps us working for new ways to do things for better tomorrows.

Does this resonate? It’s what defines us. Join us to do work with an impact.

For more information on this position, please contact Salla Jämsä at salla.jamsa@canatu.com . Pls apply latest by 26th of Feb, 2025.