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Principal Associate Scientist - Pharmaceutical Development

South San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $92,600–$92,600🗓 2026-08-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop and support clinical and commercial parenteral drug product processes, including scale-up, technology transfer, and troubleshooting for biologics.

Role type

Principal Associate Scientist (Pharmaceutical Development)

Builds

Parenteral drug products (liquid filling, prefilled syringes, lyophilization, sterile filtration) for clinical and commercial launch.

Domain

Biopharmaceuticals / Pharmaceutical Development

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Process development, scale-up, technology transfer, GMP documentation, analytical problem solving, protein processing, lab techniques, instrumentation

Preferred skills

Large molecule parenteral drug product expertise, clinical or commercial manufacturing facility implementation experience

Technologies

Lyophilization, sterile filtration, mixing, primary container packaging

Responsibilities

Design small-scale models to understand mechanisms and derisk at-scale processes; Execute development and qualification studies and new technology investigations; Author, review, and approve internal technical, development, validation, and manufacturing documents; Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Quality, Regulatory, and Manufacturing.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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