2026 Future Talent Program - Associate Scientist, Engineering (Vaccine Commercialization)

Job Description

Position Description:

The Vaccine Commercialization group within our Manufacturing Labs focuses on late-stage process development, technology transfer, and in-line support of vaccine products.  We are seeking motivated scientists and engineers to work under technical direction of a group leader to support development and licensure of novel vaccine candidates and in-line products. In this role, you will be responsible for:

Primary Responsibilities

• Executing process development in vaccine downstream processing including lab-scale process development and optimization, in-process assay support, and process scale-up/scale-down model development.

• Supporting the hands-on execution of lab-scale experiments and authoring associated technical reports and documents.

• Collaborating with commercial manufacturing teams to support facility start-up activities and provide on-the-floor support for drug substance manufacturing.

• Supporting assignment execution against accelerated, critical-path timelines in a right-first-time manner.

• Authoring and/or reviewing technical documents to support Process Performance Qualification (PPQ) and licensure.

• Participate in and drive organizational excellence practices such as technical standards, process platforms, operational procedures

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• BS must be completed by June or July of 2026 in Chemical/Biochemical/Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Structural biology, or related fields

Required Experience and Skills:

• Relevant academic, internship, co-op, or professional experience in a laboratory setting.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Well-developed organizational, record-keeping, and problem-solving skills, with an attention to detail

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Hands-on expertise with downstream unit operations (i.e. membrane filtration, chromatography, etc.) and process development for large molecules

• Ability to understand and execute experiments independently in fulfillment of assigned program objectives in a manner that meets quality and timeline expectations

• Experience within or collaboration with analytical teams, pilot-scale, and/or manufacturing environment

• Large molecule drug substance process development, scaling (up and down) and technology transfer

• Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) awareness or experience

• Experience authoring technical documentation in support of the following: process performance qualification, risk assessment, control strategy, process comparability reports, and/or regulatory submissions

• Communication of scientific information through oral presentations and written documents

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