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Senior Scientist I, Molecular Profiling and Drug Delivery (MPDD)

North Chicago, IL, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-31 → 2026-09-25

Core

Develop and implement robust solid form solutions for active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) across drug discovery and development phases, utilizing automation, computational tools, and material science expertise to optimize physical properties and align control strategies.

Role type

Senior Scientist I, Solid State Chemistry / Molecular Profiling and Drug Delivery

Builds

Commercial API isolation processes, scalable manufacturing processes, and robust control strategies for drug substances and products.

Domain

Pharmaceutical industry, Solid State Chemistry, Biopharmaceutics, Drug Delivery

Deliverable

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

Required skills

Solid form development, polymorphism concepts, structure elucidation, material properties assessment, computational tools for physicochemical assessment, preclinical and clinical formulation design, mathematical modeling of material properties, automation tools, data mining and analytics

Preferred skills

Physical Chemistry, Material Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemical Engineering

Technologies

PXRD, HPLC, thermal techniques, microscopy, particle size analysis

Responsibilities

Identify solid form of API and develop scalable API isolation processes for early clinical studies; establish structure-property-performance correlations; align control strategies across API and drug product; ensure successful regulatory submissions; lead research for organizational objectives

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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