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Senior Scientist II , Mass Spectrometry

AbbVie
North Chicago, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Jun 2025

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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 XFacebookInstagramYouTubeLinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Analytical Research & Development team is seeking a talented, highly motivated candidate with experience in small molecule structure elucidation.  As part of the Predictive Stability and Structure Elucidation team, the successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing analytical methods for the characterization of small molecules with an emphasis on mass spectrometry-based methods.  The candidate will collaborate with analytical and cross-functional teams to build an understanding of process impurities and degradation pathways for small molecule APIs. 

The successful candidate will be expected to act as a lead scientist in their area of expertise, critically evaluate relevant scientific and regulatory advances, and integrate this knowledge into research and development programs.  Candidate should possess an understanding of their core discipline and use that expertise to support early phase development of drug substance and drug product and collaborate across the global Analytical R&D organization and with cross-functional partners such as Pre-Clinical Safety (PCS), Process Chemistry, Process Engineering, Drug Product Development (DPD), Quality Assurance (QA), and CMC-Regulatory. 

Responsibilities:

  • Utilize cutting-edge mass spectrometry techniques, including high-resolution MS, MS/MS, ion mobility-MS, and 2DLC-MS, to characterize small molecule active pharmaceutical ingredients, intermediates, starting materials, and impurities.
  • Identify, develop, and implement novel analytical methods for the characterization of pharmaceuticals with an emphasis on LC-MS and analytical characterization to drive discovery projects through the research and

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