Our vision is to be the R&D breakthrough execution leader, delivering breakthrough results for our customers. Our strategic plan is to use Symyx Labs and Collaborations to fund and build research partnerships, technology development and materials licensing engagements with key customers. Symyx Software provides an R&D project execution and decision support platform; and Symyx Tools builds automated laboratory workflows

Our values are:

• Innovation and ingenuity to drive breakthrough results
• Achievement, going beyond to deliver exceptional results
• Teamwork and collaboration across functions and with customers
• Integrity and honesty in everything we do

Symyx brings together talented scientists, engineers and professionals, working together in multi-disciplinary teams and collaborating on projects with customers.

All of our people are the best at what they do. They are highly qualified and have skills and experience that enable them to perform in the most challenging situations. Our people are used to breaking the norms, either by setting higher standards, by devising new ways to work together, or by challenging accepted solutions or barriers. Our people drive breakthrough solutions through innovative processes.

We provide breakthrough research solutions by miniaturizing and automating laboratory work and better correlating scientific information so that our clients can accelerate, innovate and compete at a higher level. We work on customer funded research and applications either independently or collaboratively with scientists from the customer.

Our customers bring us some of the world’s greatest challenges for chemists, scientists and engineers and many of the largest most successful organizations come to Symyx for our people, their ideas and our proven ability to succeed. Our Software Engineers design Electronic Laboratory Notebook and Lab Execution and Analysis Software, and our Engineering teams make complex tools for our customers to use in their own laboratories.

Examples of our work include:

• Our clients commercialize better products faster, reduce global R&D costs, and better understand and manage their R&D operations
• Chemical companies can lower feedstock, energy and labor costs, reduce emissions, avoid capital expenditures, improve products and manufacturing reliability
• Pharmaceutical companies can cut cycle times, increase quality and improve productivity and compliance

Symyx can give you the opportunity to work with some of the brightest people coming out of academia and also some of the most skilled and experienced people in the industry. Work on some of the hottest projects and experience the development and personal growth opportunities at a company known as a hot house for talent. You will be pushed, challenged and driven to produce results and in the course of your time working at Symyx you will produce your best work and grow faster and develop further than you ever thought possible.

Although we work hard, we play hard too! We have lots of fun at work with Beer Bashes, BBQ lunches, Hawaiian Luaus and other social events. Outside of work, our employees often get together for social and sporting events and the Company sponsors picnics and holiday parties.

Symyx fosters a culture of teamwork and collaboration that challenges you to bring your personal skills to the table in a way that contributes to the overall goals of the team or the larger business goals of Symyx and our customers. The skills you develop here working in multi-disciplinary, often global, teams comprised of Symyx and customer representatives will last a lifetime and accelerate your career progression.

All great companies need a great Executive team creating the vision, showing the way and setting the pace. At Symyx, our executive team is really impressive. Take a look at the biographies of our leaders. Our Technical leaders are truly committed to excellence. Whether it is delivering breakthrough results for our customers or driving research and development, the projects we get asked to solve are, by definition, the toughest you can find. By the time customers bring them to Symyx, they have often tried and failed to solve the issues themselves. By coming to Symyx, they are engaging in a relationship where a team of their best people will work with a hand-picked team of Symyx people to work for as long as it takes to find a solution to the issue.

We are committed to achieving breakthrough research results. We are known for our expertise in using novel methods in the industry to solve seemingly impossible issues. By miniaturizing and automating laboratory work, and then better correlating scientific information, we achieve breakthrough results. Our employees have received the highest awards in academia and have been awarded an unprecedented number of patents in the field of high-throughput materials discovery. We see leadership as both a technical skill and a people management expertise and we don't ask our employees to choose between the two. Many employees successfully combine careers that encompass both characteristics and we support them with the training and development they need to be successful.

We recruit people who meet exceptional standards for ingenuity, creativity, leadership and the ability to work and lead in a team environment. Talent comes from all walks of life and contributes a rich set of view points and experiences to our firm. We are committed to making Symyx Technologies a company where all individuals have an opportunity to flourish and succeed, regardless of their ethnicity, gender, race or sexual orientation.