Scientist I, Process Development - Pipeline

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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

Job Description

Seeking talented and passionate individuals to join our growing team, working together to advance cutting-edge scientific research, experiments and analytics. This role is based at AbbVie Waltham’s new, state-of-the-art laboratory designed to enable next-generation innovation. 

We are looking for a technical expert that will support late-stage process development activities of novel antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs).  Ideally someone who can do the following:

• Independently execute laboratory experiments to address critical project needs, and identify opportunities for development and improvement in collaboration with supervisor. 
• Continuously seek to improve existing laboratory methods and processes. 
• Demonstrate mastery of experimental techniques and methods of data analysis used in day-to-day responsibilities. 
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional groups to support project goals

Responsibilities: 

• Independently execute, and interpret critical experiments to answer scientific questions related to pharmaceutical development activities. Understand the broad objectives of the project as well as their role in achieving those objectives, and modify experimental plan when required.
• Meet experimental and project timelines in accordance with CMC strategy.
• Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, including analytical chemists, process chemists, and manufacturing personnel.
• Support development projects with hands-on laboratory experimentation, data generation, and analysis of results. As needed, provide support for technical transfer and scale-up of laboratory process knowledge to manufacturing sites.
• Learn and understand new experimental t