Associate Scientist I, 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

The Biologics Drug Product Development group within AbbVie is a global organization responsible for developing and characterizing drug product formulations and manufacturing processes for biologic therapeutics (antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), neurotoxins, and novel biologic formats) from preclinical development through clinical proof of concept. We have an exciting opportunity available for an Associate Scientist I/II to join our team at our Bay Area site in South San Francisco, CA. This position requires an onsite presence and involves lab-based functions. Successful candidates will thrive in a collaborative lab environment.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Execute formulation composition and drug product process development studies for sterile liquids and lyophilized dosage forms
• Manufacture drug product formulation batches for evaluating formulation stability and/or to support animal studies
• Conduct stability studies to enable selection of formulation composition and container closure for liquid and lyophilized dosage forms for protein therapeutics
• Conduct clinical in-use studies to guide dose solution administration
• Analyze data, interpret results and draw conclusions from multistage experiments; note significant deviations and propose relevant new experiments
• Use data analytics to optimize workflows, data entry, and data digitalization
• Generate high-quality data based on sound scientific principles and document results in electronic lab notebook
• Effectively organize and present scientific data in presentations and document studies by authoring reports that support regulatory filings.
• Support functional technical