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Senior Principal Research Scientist Engineering

North Chicago, IL, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-06 → 2026-07-31

Core

Lead technical teams to develop robust manufacturing processes and scale-up strategies for novel modalities including biologics, peptides, ADCs, and genetic medicines through all phases of clinical development.

Role type

Senior Principal Research Scientist Engineering (Process Engineering)

Builds

Scalable manufacturing processes for drug substances and products

Domain

Biopharmaceuticals / Chemical Engineering

Deliverable

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

Required skills

Chemical engineering fundamentals, process development, scale-up, reaction kinetics, transport phenomena, mathematical modeling, cross-functional leadership, regulatory filing support, technical documentation

Preferred skills

Experience in toxins, cosmetic active ingredients, genetic medicines, mentoring

Technologies

Pilot plant operations, mathematical modeling tools

Responsibilities

Develop robust manufacturing processes for novel modalities, lead project teams for process characterization, influence process development across pipeline projects, lead scale-up of laboratory processes in pilot plants, address challenging biochemical problems, author technical documents for regulatory filings, mentor process engineering colleagues

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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