Senior Principal Engineer

Working with Us
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

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Drug Product Development (DPD)

Our Drug Product Development team is committed to CMC design, development, and commercialization of innovative drug products to improve patient lives. We leverage the best people, collaboration, and cutting-edge innovation to achieve this commitment. BMS’s internal engine of innovation includes unrivaled industry leading expertise in CMC development of small molecules, protein biotherapeutics, protein degraders, and other therapeutic modalities. We collaborate closely with our colleagues in R&D and Commercial to design our drug products. Here, you’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities that are uncommon in scale and scope.

Position Summary:

The Device, Delivery and Product Strategy team within the Global Product Development and Supply organization supports the BMS pipeline to create patient centric products.  We now have a vacancy for a Senior Principal Engineer to join our team and contribute to our success in meeting the needs of our business and our patients. The Senior Principal Engineer is an important role in advancing modeling strategies and innovative methods generating valuable insights using internal and external data sources. In this role, you will provide technical leadership through mechanistic modeling, model based DOEs, and material science. With the modeling first mindset, the successful candidate will design and develop predictive models for device delivery systems, powder-, fluid-, & polymer-based systems and multiphase flows in drug product development and manufacturing. This work will advance the field of predictive design in the pharmaceutical industry as well as enhance the understanding of product development. The selected candidate will work in a fast-paced multidisciplinary environment as the competitive landscape and modeling strategies keep changing rapidly. 

The Senior Principal Engineer will be accountable for the following: 

• Generating, leading modeling and digitization initiatives for device and combination product development including digital twins of products and processes, product and process modeling, multiphysics modeling etc. 
• Execution of design and development activities, such as concept generation, CAD design, prototyping and testing. 
• Compliance with company processes and procedures. 

Qualifications:

• PhD in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline with 6-8 years of experience or MS with 9-12 years of experience in the Medical Device, Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology or other industry with an emphasis on product and process modeling. 
• Research experience in the field of engineering and computational modeling techniques is required