Process Development Associate

Overview

Payrate: $22.00- $24.00/hr.

This role is in an integrated bioprocess development group in which cell culture and purification scientists work together to advance a rich, exciting and dynamic pipeline. With a biology-first approach, the position provides the unique opportunity to work on multiple modalities including antibodies, BiTEs, oncolytic viruses, bispecifics, and siRNAs. The successful candidate will design and execute experiments at the bench scale, spanning the end-to-end drug substance process, including both cell culture and purification operations.

The candidate will apply established platform approaches and utilize problem-solving skills to rapidly solve day-to-day experimental challenges. Additionally, the candidate will utilize out-of-the-box thinking to contribute to technology development, including process automation. Finally, the candidate will expand and develop skills in both cell culture and purification, thereby further contributing to the integrated group.

• Work in a team environment to contribute to drug substance process development.
• Complete mammalian cell culture experiments at different scales in shake flasks and bioreactors.
• Implement purification experiments, mainly filtration and chromatography, at bench and pilot scale as needed.
• Document experimental data in lab notebooks.
• Analyze the data and present it to the team.
• Author technical reports and support regulatory filing as needed.
• Contribute to technology development projects to seek continuous improvement in reliability and efficiency.
• The candidate will have opportunities to work in cell culture development and purification development to become a well-rounded process development scientist with experience in upstream and downstream.

• Preferred Qualifications: Master’s degree in chemical engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Life Sciences, or other relevant sciences with a demonstrated record of excellence.
• Ability to identify, develop and implement solutions to practical problems through application of fundamental scientific and engineering principles, preferably in a process development environment.
• Basic understanding of protein chromatography, filtration or cell culture principles; hands-on experience with mammalian cell culture, and/or purification operations is a plus.
• Prior experience with data analytical tools (Excel, Spotfire, etc.) is preferred. Experience with statistical analysis and programming in JMP, R, and/or Python environments is a plus.
• Motivated self-starter with excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Team players with the ability to successfully work within a diverse team in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.
• Familiarity with design of experiments and statistical analysis of data desirable.

• Must Have
  
  Skills:
  
  Degree in Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Biomedical engineering, or Bioprocessing field or relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or related industry preferred.
• Relevant hands-on lab experience in cell culture or protein purification.
• Attention to details and critical thinking ability.

The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $22.00- $24.00/hour
. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages.

Packages may include medical, denmatch, lifeion benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus.

Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on…