Director, Process Engineering & Materials Science

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Job Description
 

Director, Process Engineering & Materials Science

Foster City, CA

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company founded in 1987. Together we deliver life-saving therapies to patients in need. With the commitment and drive you bring to the Pharmaceutical Development & Manufacturing (PDM) workplace, you will be part of a team that is changing the world and helping millions of people live healthier, more fulfilling lives. You will see the tangible results of your contributions, where every individual matters, and everyone has a chance to enhance their skills through on-going development. Our scientific focus has resulted in marketed products that are benefiting hundreds of thousands of people, a pipeline of late-stage drug candidates, and unmatched patient access programs to ensure medications are available to those who could otherwise not afford them. By joining PDM at Gilead, you will further our mission to address unmet medical needs and improve life by advancing the care of patients with life-threatening diseases.

This position will represent a new Process Engineering function as part of the Materials Sciences group, under the Process Chemistry organization.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the global leader of process engineering function within Gilead and provide engineering expertise to support chemical development and optimization across all scales for small to large molecules, ensuring and enabling robust, safe, and high-performing processes.
• Evaluate critical chemical processing strategies and unit operations for practicality, efficiency, and scalability to large-scale manufacturing.
• Evaluate innovative technologies and/or processing techniques to overcome technical challenges and/or to achieve targeted outcomes.
• Integrate engineering resources across multiple sites, functions, and modalities, and support drug development (small molecules & biologics) at all stages.
• Plan, design, and execute experiments to translate lab-scale understanding into robust process knowledge for drug substance and drug product manufacturing. Integrate study designs with process R&D (e.g., QbD, etc.) to enable robust knowledge and datasets to support a strong regulatory filing strategy and position.
• Collaborate with chemistry teams to develop and implement economical, state-of-the-art techniques for isolating, characterizing, purifying, and mass-producing drug substances.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and advisor to chemistry teams, providing guidance on development direction and strategy. Participate and/or lead industry consortia on process engineering to promote the science, share information, and learn/innovate/implement