Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Scientist I will play an important role in the developing downstream purification process development for various modalities such as mAbs, ADCs, bispecifics, gene therapy, etc. An ideal candidate will investigate, identify, develop, and optimize new experiments under the supervision of senior scientists, and generate reliable and reproducible data in a timely manner independently to support downstream process development. The candidate will be expected to read and adapt scientific literature to accomplish assignments and demonstrate broad and versatile technical expertise within discipline. In addition, the candidate will be expected to authorize and review technical reports under the supervision of senior scientists.

Responsibilities:

• Support the develop recovery and purification process that utilizes clarification, chromatography, and membrane filtration technologies for monoclonal antibodies, bispecifics and antibody drug conjugates (ADC).
• Independently design and conduct critical experiments for downstream process development and optimization.
• Interpret results and draw conclusions from own multistage experiments, note significant deviations, then suggest, design, and pursue relevant experiments
• Responsible for technology transfer to pilot lab and cGMP manufacturing facilities, troubleshooting and investigation activities. Provide person-in-plant support for pilot and/or cGMP manufacturing campaigns.
• Responsible for documenting and completing experiments in ELN in timely manner
• Implement and may innovate new experimental protocols/techniques in process development, especially in the area of new resin/filter evaluation, automation, high throughput development.
• Understand the goal and maintain a high proficiency in his/her projects as well as the overall program.
• Understand relevant scientific literature and apply theoretical framework to solving problems within scientific discipline in a timely manner.
• Perform routine and complex tasks competently and independently and generate reliable and consistent results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 5 years of experience, Master’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 0-2 years of experience
• Education background in chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, biochemistry, biochemical engineering is preferred.
• Experience in areas of biologics downstream process development and/or biologics manufacture is strongly preferred
• Proficiency in programming (python, matlab), data analytics is preferred.
• Experience in automation, highthroughput development is preferred.
• Demonstrate excellent communication (oral and written) skills
• Play a strong team player in a cross functional collaborative environment.
• Must have a “results-oriented” work ethic and a positive “can-do” attitude with a strong sense of urgency and self-motivated desire to achieve.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.