FSP – Scientist – Analytical Chromatography

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This is a fully onsite role based at our customer’s site in
San Diego, CA (Carmel Valley area). We welcome applicants from all locations within the US. Please note that relocation assistance is not provided for this position, and any relocation costs will be the responsibility of the candidate. 

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies.

With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Thermo Fisher's clinical research business is a leading global contract research organization and world leader in serving science. We are passionate, deliberate, and driven by our mission – to enable our customers to make the world healthier, safer, and cleaner.

Our Laboratories Functional Service Partnership (FSP) team plays a direct role in advancing drug development by creating sustained groups of talent within our customers’ organizations to provide long-term support. Through this collaborative approach, our professionals bring their commitment to excellence, industry knowledge, and operational strength directly into customer environments, helping to enhance capabilities and advance the delivery of life-changing therapies.

Our client’s Biologics Research Analytical Chromatography Core is seeking a Scientist to support analytical characterization of peptides, antibodies, antibody conjugates, and other biologic therapeutic modalities.

This is a hands-on, laboratory-focused role responsible for executing established chromatographic and capillary electrophoresis methods, including size-exclusion chromatography (SEC), reversed-phase HPLC/UPLC (RP-HPLC/UPLC), ion-exchange chromatography (IEX/CEX/AEX), and capillary electrophoresis (CE)-based methods. The role will support sample characterization, stability, formulation, comparability, and other research program activities.

The Scientist will independently execute and coordinate assigned testing, evaluate data quality and system suitability, perform routine troubleshooting, and communicate analytical findings to senior scientists and project teams. The successful candidate will bring strong technical execution, sound scientific judgment, and the ability to manage routine analytical activities with increasing independence.

This position is focused primarily on execution of established analytical methods rather than independent method development or optimization. Analytical strategy, significant method optimization, and complex investigations will be led by more experienced scientists.

Key responsibilities:

• Perform analytical testing of peptides, antibodies, antibody conjugates, and other biologic samples using established methods.
• Execute SEC/SEC-UV methods for assessment of monomer, aggregation,…