Senior Scientist II, Biologics Drug Product Development

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

Summary: 

AbbVie’s global Drug Product Development team designs and scales formulations and manufacturing processes for complex biologics, including antibodies, antibody drug conjugates, and novel formats, from preclinical stages through clinical proof of concept across both liquid and lyophilized presentations.  

We are hiring a Senior Scientist II in South San Francisco to lead end to end formulation and process development. In this role, you will plan and execute DoE driven studies, assess clinical in-use stability, and model degradation pathways. You will establish fit-for-purpose analytical strategies using protein characterization and stability methods such as SEC, CE SDS, icIEF, HIAC, MFI, and DLS. Additionally, you will synthesize complex datasets into clear conclusions and communicate results to technical, leadership, and regulatory audiences while upholding safety, data integrity, and GxP standards. 

A core focus of the role is building efficiency at scale by devising and deploying high throughput automated workflows to increase scientific depth and speed across a matrixed, cross site environment. You will mentor and develop laboratory scientists and represent the function on cross functional teams. This is a hands on technical leadership opportunity that converts complex biology into robust, scalable, clinically ready drug products, accelerating and de risking AbbVie’s biologics pipeline through scientific rigor, DoE based design, deep analytics, and laboratory automation. 

Responsibilities: 

• Conceive and execute novel scientific research and development that achieves project and functional area goals and produced novel approaches to answer scientific q