Associate Scientist

• BioProcess Engineering (BPE) department is responsible for scale up, tech transfer, and facility fit of clinical and commercial processes to manufacturing. BPE is also responsible for producing development drug substance material and data from pilot facilities. Members of Development Scale-up Center (DSC), within BPE, produce materials up to 500L scale for toxicology and process development studies, to confirm process performance and to troubleshoot issues in GMP facility, and work with cross functional team on technology evaluations.

• This position is focused on upstream cell culture and fermentation processes supporting scalability and production of therapeutic proteins in DSC. Position is a hands-on laboratory and production-based role. Responsibilities include but are not limited to media preparations, routine sub-culturing of cells and fermentations. The candidate will assist in adaptation of transferred information for scale-up processes from late stage development to DSC as well as assisting in the production of various tox and development materials, troubleshooting and resolving technical issues with the production processes and/or equipment, identifying root causes for deviations, implementing corrective/preventative actions, assisting in implementing new technologies, and trending/analyzing data.

• The candidate will assist in compiling data and expected to summarize and assist in interpreting results. The candidate will also maintain production and laboratory equipment.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science (BS) or Master of Science (MS) in scientific, engineering or related field.

Experience:

• For the RA, we require a BS with 2 – 5 years or a MS with 0 – 2 years of relevant experience.

• For the AS, we require a BS with a minimum of 5 years or MS with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.

Special Skills/ Abilities

• Hands on proficiency in cell culture and/or fermentation and good aseptic techniques. Bioreactor/fermenter operation experience is preferred.

• Good documentation, writing and communication skills in a team based setting are essential.