Senior Scientist I / II, Drug Delivery Modeling & Simulation

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

As Senior Scientist I or II in AbbVie Drug Delivery Sciences, you will work as a key part of a talented, multidisciplinary, and cross-functional team to build cutting-edge capabilities for the delivery of biologics and small molecules and advance new products through early R&D.  We are seeking a highly motivated PhD Chemical Engineer specializing in the modeling and simulation of drug release kinetics in advanced drug delivery systems. The successful candidate will apply first-principles understanding to design, optimize, and analyze drug delivery platforms, utilizing quantitative models to predict and control drug release profiles.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and apply mechanistic models for drug release kinetics from various sustained drug delivery platforms (e.g., in situ forming depots, implants, hydrogels, etc.,).
• Employ first-principles approaches (e.g., diffusion, convection, chemical reaction theories) to solve complex transport problems relevant to drug delivery formulations.
• Design, execute, and analyze computational simulations using tools such as COMSOL Multiphysics or similar platforms.
• Collaborate with formulation and material scientists, and pharmacologists, to translate modeling results into experimental design and product development.
• Interpret experimental release data and integrate findings into enhanced models for predictive accuracy.
• Communicate findings through technical reports, publications, and presentations

Qualifications

• PhD in Chemical Engineering
• Senior Scientist I: PhD with 0 - 4 years of relevant experience (industry, post-docs, or academia).
• Senior Scientist II: PhD with 4+ ye