Senior Scientist

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

 

 

About the role:
This Senior Pharmaceutical Scientist is responsible for design and optimization formulation of drug delivery systems to support combination product development, preclinical and clinical studies.  This position is also responsible for characterizing physicochemical properties such as physical form, solubility, stability, and interaction of drug molecules with excipients. This includes experimental planning, design, data analysis and interpretation. 
 
At Boston Scientific, our products and technologies are used to diagnose or treat a wide range of medical conditions. We continue to innovate in key areas and are extending our innovations into new geographies and high-growth adjacency markets. As part of R&D team, we design, develop, and produce technologies for diagnosing and treating coronary artery disease and other cardiovascular disorders. Medical Conditions we provide solutions that encompass Coronary Artery Disease, Peripheral Artery Disease, Heart Failure, and other Cardiovascular Diseases.  We are able to provide a number of solutions to patients that include: Drug-Eluting Stents, Bare-Metal Stents, Catheters, Balloons, Guide Wires, Coronary Atherectomy and Coronary Intravascular Ultrasound. BSC has robust product portfolio and pipeline and will continue to make investment in Interventional treatments to improve the quality of patient’s life.
 
Key Responsibilities

• Selects techniques to solve complex problems and makes sound design recommendations.
• Drug assay and degradants method development and validation 
• Release and stability testing at internal and external laboratories
• Write CMC sections to support IDE and PMA submissions for combination products
• Participate in cross-functional product development teams and provide technical support to formulation development, test methods, sterilization process selection, packaging specification requirements, clinical manufacturing, quality assurance, analytical R&D, and regulatory affairs
• Consistently generates innovative and unique solutions to market needs and submits idea disclosures.  Work is expected to result in the development of new or refined products, processes, or equipment.
• The selected candidate must have an ability to collaborate effectively with other scientists in a multidisciplinary team environment and possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.

 
Require Qualifications:

• University degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience required, advanced graduate degree preferred.
• 3-5 years of Medial Device or Pharmaceutical industry experience under a research and development environment. 
• Strong hands-on capability and deep understanding of pharmaceutics and physical chemistry is a must

 
Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physical/Organic Chemistry, Material Science, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or related technical field.
• Understanding and experience in translation pre-clinical model development 
• Knowledge of major analytical techniques such as HPLC, GC, LC/MS, GC/MS, and NMR are desirable.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills 
• Good technical writing skills
• Substantial knowledge in assay method development and validation and familiarity with drug release and stability testing are desirable.
• Good understanding of controlled drug delivery systems is highly desirable
• Experience in practical lab-based Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics data analysis
• Must have critical thinking and problem-solving skills
   

Requisition ID: 584772

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance testing requirements for safety-sensitive positions.  This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a drug test as a pre-employment requirement.  The goal of the drug testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.  

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