Subject Matter Expert

Job Description
- Subject Matter Expert - Quality Check, Physical Chemistry
- Your goal - To holistically improve the education process and better the lives of students through immaculate content production.
- The Culture:

- Chegg’s culture celebrates leadership at all levels and does not discriminate based on job descriptions or titles. The culture is open, with our “fast feedback” system implemented to encourage transparency. You will be given the latitude to drive and stretch to deliver mutual goals.
- Responsibilities:

- Creation of academic content for students in a structured, understandable, and step-by-step manner.
- Ensuring only high-quality content is delivered to students, through quality checks/fixing.
- Providing solutions to complex problems of different academic levels (UG & above) with clarity.
- Providing feedback and training to empower an expert community.
- Categorizing content based on complexity and academic level.
- Product and impact analysis to enhance overall student experience.
- Requirements:

- M.Sc. Chemistry/ M.Sc. Chemistry (specialization in Physical Chemistry).
- Strong Subject knowledge of Physical Chemistry / Strong knowledge of 1. Quantum Chemistry, 2. Chemical Bonding, 3. Symmetry and Group Theory, 4. Molecular Spectroscopy, 5. Photochemistry,
- 6. Thermodynamics, 7. Statistical Thermodynamics, 8. Solutions, 9. Solid state and surface chemistry, 10. Chemical equilibrium, 11. Gaseous state
- Molecular dynamic, 12. Chemical kinetics,
- 13. Electrochemistry & 14. Nuclear Chemistry
- Knowledge of software like ChemDraw and Serif Draw will be an added advantage.
- Proficiency in English language and excellent verbal and written communication skill.
- Strong organizational, time-management, and interpersonal skills.
- Willing to consistently learn and evolve in a fast-paced environment.
- Willing to work in rotational shifts and week-offs as per business requirements.
- SME-Physical Chemistry Quantum chemistry
- Quantization of energy, wave-particle duality; blackbody radiation; the photoelectric effect; atomic spectra and the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom; Quantum mechanical waves and the Schrodinger equation; Solving the Schrodinger equation: operators, observables, eigenfunctions, and eigen values; the postulates of quantum mechanics; the expectation value; the particle in one-dimensional box; particle in two
- and three
- dimensional box; commutating and non-commutating operators; the Heisenberg uncertainty principle; the quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator; quantization of angular momentum; the hydrogen atom, formulating and solving the Schrodinger’s equation, eigen values and eigenfunctions of total energy; hydrogen atom orbitals, the radial probability distribution function
- Chemical Bonding
- Valence electrons, Stable electronic configurations, Lewis electron-dot symbols for atoms/ions, ionic bonds, octet rule, Lewis structure for ionic compounds, formulas and names of binary ionic compounds, electronegativity, covalent bonds, polar covalent bonds, determination of Lewis structures for polyatomic compounds/ions, the VSEPR theory, determination of molecular geometry.
- Symmetry and group theory
- Symmetry elements, symmetry operations, and point groups; Assigning point groups, Representations of symmetry operators, bases for representations, the character table, the great orthogonality theorem; symmetries of the normal modes of vibration of molecules.
- Molecular spectroscopy
- Vibrational spectroscopy of diatomic molecules: oscillations of systems with one degree of freedom, the diatomic molecule, the potential energy function for a chemical bond.
- Vibrational spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules: rotation vibration spectra of polyatomic molecules, selection rules.
- The Raman effect: classical treatment of Raman effect; quantum theory: rule of mutual exclusion, polarization of Raman lines, fermi resonance, influence of nuclear spin.
- Electronic spectroscopy of diatomic molecules: The Born-Oppenheimer approximation; vibrational coarse structure; Frank-Condon principle; dissociation energy; electronic structure of diatomic molecules; electronic angular momentum in diatomic molecules; selection rules; rotational fine structure of electronic-vibrational transitions.
- Electronic spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules: intensities of electronic transitions; types of electronic transitions; free electron model of linear polyenes; change of molecular shape on absorption.
- Photochemistry
- The Jablonski diagram; Beer-Lambert law; laws of photochemistry: Grotthus-Dapper law and Stark
- Einstein law; Quantum yield; determination of quantum yield; photochemical reactions; kinetics of photochemical reactions; energy transfer in photochemical reactions: photosensitization and quenching; Quenching of fluorescence: The Stern-Volmer equation.
- Thermodynamics
- Thermodynamics and its importance; Internal energy and first law of thermodynamics; Heat; Work; State fun