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Scientist I - Product Development Science & Technology, API

AbbVie
North Chicago, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Feb 2026
💰 $138,500/yr($93,500/yr$138,500/yr)

About the role

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

Key Responsibilities

  • Support commercial product manufacturing & pipeline product development.
  • Develop scalable & robust engineering processes for key modalities (e.g., small molecule APIs, antibody drug conjugates, & natural products).
  • Investigate, identify, develop, & optimize new methods & techniques to generate reliable & reproducible data.
  • Read & adapt scientific literature to accomplish assignments & demonstrate broad & versatile technical expertise.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

Must have a Bachelors in chemical or biological engineering, materials science or a related field or foreign education equivalent, & 3 years of work experience as a chemical engineer or related discipline. Of work experience required, must have 3 years of each of the following: (i) leveraging   core chemical engineering principles (chemical kinetics, transport phenomena, thermodynamics, mathematical modelling) in experimental design, thought process in problem-solving, &  data analysis; (ii) performing laboratory experimentation, pilot plant, & /or manufacturing support, with direction from or interaction with supervisor; (iii) formulating  conclusions &  design follow-on experiments based on multidisciplinary data; (iv) pursuing areas of investigation that are scientifically impactful to development and pipeline programs; (v) designing &  conducting data driven experiments that further project goals; (vi) applying theoretical framework to solving problems within scientific discipline; & (vii) performing analytical techniques including HPLC.

Alternatively, would accept a MS in chem

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