Senior Scientist in particulate materials characterization & digital sciences

Senior Scientist in particulate materials characterization & digital sciences

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At Pfizer, our purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients' lives. Central to this mission is our Research and Development team, which is dedicated to translating advanced science and innovative technologies into the therapies and vaccines that matter most. Whether you are involved in discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy, or supporting clinical trials, you will leverage cutting-edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate the delivery of best-in-class medicines to patients worldwide.

ROLE SUMMARY

The Drug Product Design & Supply (DPDS) organization is seeking a Senior Scientist in particulate materials characterization & digital sciences to advance the manufacturing science of solid oral dosage forms, including tablets, capsules, and multiparticulate systems. This role will focus on developing innovative experimental and digital approaches to characterize drug substances, excipients, drug-product intermediates, and drug product, generating the mechanistic understanding needed to accelerate pharmaceutical development and manufacturing.

Our goal is to enhance our material-sparing, predictive-science-based drug product development approaches to further enable robust formulation risk assessment and decision making. By combining advanced particulate-material characterization, laboratory automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital technologies, we generate key experimental data of high quality and scientific insights needed to support formulation development, process understanding and advancement of next generation predictive tools.

The successful candidate will lead the development of novel characterization methodologies and laboratory workflows, leveraging modern data science and AI tools to improve the understanding and prediction of particulate-material behavior. Close collaboration with formulation scientists, process modelers, process engineers, and data scientists will be essential to translate material understanding into improved product quality, manufacturing robustness, and development efficiency.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead the development of innovative characterization methods for drug substances, excipients, drug-product intermediates and drug product from particulate to bulk scales to improve understanding of critical material attributes and process-relevant behavior.

Apply artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and advanced analytics to characterize particulate materials, extract insights from complex datasets, and enable predictive understanding of material behavior.

Develop and implement automated and high-throughput characterization workflows, including integration of instrumentation into digital laboratory environments and robotic platforms

Partner with process modelers and digital scientists to establish experimental data pipelines that support model-informed drug product development and manufacturing.

Develop data analysis, visualization, and reporting workflows that facilitate rapid decision making and knowledge generation.

Support Pfizer’s strategic initiatives in digital development, advanced manufacturing, and laboratory automation.

Collaborate closely with formulation scientists, process engineers, and modelers to connect material properties with process performance and product quality.

Communicate scientific findings through technical reports, presentations, publications, patents, and external…