Assistant/Associate Scientist Jobs

: ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE SCIENTIST, Integrated Technology & Engineering

This role is 100% Onsite at the New Brunswick site

• Flexibility to travel to the Summit, NJ site as the business requires

Work Schedule: Mon - Fri, Business Hours

Description

The Integrated Technologies & Engineering team in Drug Product Development is seeking a diligent, curious, collaborative engineer/scientist with a passion for leveraging technology to extend and enhance patient lives, with a focus on experimental design, experimental execution and automation. This position is responsible for supporting development of small molecule and biological drug products via the development and application of process technologies (e.g. Tangential Flow Filtration (TFF), Buffer Exchange), high-throughput automation and scale-down technologies (mini-piloting). Laboratory activities will support commercial product formulation, process development, scale-up, and accelerated stability studies.

Responsibilities

• Follow safety, regulatory, and compliance standards as they relate to the development of pharmaceuticals
• Member of a dynamic scientifically driven team dedicated to the development and optimization of robust

manufacturing processes for drug products

• Utilize appropriate wet lab skills, research tools, instrumentation, technologies, and methodologies to support

efficient and effective drug product process development

• Apply engineering principles to solve process challenges across multiple unit operations, utilizing experimental

with support of process simulation/modeling approaches

• Maintain a productive laboratory workspace, which includes managing workflows, processes and systems for the

lab, maintaining / troubleshooting equipment, and providing recommendations for continuous improvement

• Collaborate with formulation and process development teams to provide data for product commercialization and

new technologies, and to optimize or enhance existing products or processes

Education

Degree in Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Pharmaceutics, Chemistry or Material Science:

• B.S. or M.S and 1 -3 years of relevant experience Required

Required Skills

• Ability to trouble-shoot through common hardware and software challenges on lab instrumentation;
• Experience designing and carrying out experimental studies and documenting findings
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential to be an effective member on cross functional
• Experience carrying out experiments based on tygon tubing and luer-lock connections

assignments.

• Strong time management skills. Ability to navigate multiple assignments in parallel and work in a fast paced,

multidisciplinary environment.

Beneficial Skills

• Automation related to liquid-handling or powder handling experience
• Ability to design experiments independently based on input from an interdisciplinary team contributions
• Basic proficiency in programming, database systems, computer network, and IoT