Senior Principal Engineer, Late Stage LNP Process Development

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve.

This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

At Eli Lilly and Company, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. Lilly is a leader in global healthcare and has been discovering and developing medicines that help improve lives for more than 140 years. Our 50,000 employees around the world work as a team to bring breakthrough medicines to patients who need them.

We are looking for motivated, highly skilled scientists and engineers to help us continue to bring breakthrough medicines to patients.

Verve Therapeutics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly & Company within Lilly Research Labs, is a clinical-stage genetic medicines company established with a mission to solve the global health epidemic of cardiovascular disease. Founded by world-leading experts in cardiovascular medicine, human genetics and gene-editing, Verve is pioneering a new approach to the care of cardiovascular disease, potentially transforming treatment from chronic management to single-course gene editing medicines.

The company’s initial three programs – VERVE-101, VERVE-102, and VERVE-201 – target genes that have been extensively validated as targets for lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), a root cause of cardiovascular disease.

We are seeking an experienced LNP Process Development Engineer to join the Late Stage LNP Process Development team within Verve. You will be joining a team that is focused on the development of LNP processes to support late-stage manufacturing readiness activities and drug product process characterization. This lab-facing role will play a critical part in advancing lipid nanoparticle (LNP) process development through characterization of key unit operations, with particular emphasis on high-pressure mixing technologies and tangential flow filtration (TFF).

The ideal candidate will combine technical expertise with collaborative skills to lead and support process characterization studies and work closely with cross-functional teams. The role will also contribute towards Phase 3 process lock and supporting tech transfer and manufacturing readiness activities.

• Perform DoE-type studies to support process characterization efforts in order to identify critical process parameters (CPPs) and characterize appropriate normal operating ranges (NORs) and process acceptable ranges (PARs) for each parameter in each unit operation.
• Lead the design and execution of process development studies to contribute towards scaling-up and locking late stage LNP processes.
• Support technology transfers of late-stage programs to manufacturing sites and contribute towards batch readiness activities and technical investigations as required.
• Author relevant process development and characterization reports and provide support as required in authoring regulatory documents.
• Participate actively in technical discussions and meetings, proactively communicate technical findings and results to stakeholders.
• Ensure lab notebooks are kept updated and support equipment troubleshooting and maintenance as needed.

• Earned Bachelor’s degree in…