Senior Scientist II, Biologics Drug Product Development

Company Description

Abb Vie’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.

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Abb Vie’s global Drug Product Development team designs and scales formulations and manufacturing processes for complex biologics, including antibodies, antibody drug conjugates, and novel formats, from preclinical stages through clinical proof of concept across both liquid and lyophilized presentations.

We are hiring a Senior Scientist II in South San Francisco to lead end‑to‑end formulation and process development. In this role, you will plan and execute DoE‑driven studies, assess clinical in‑use stability, and model degradation pathways. You will establish fit‑for‑purpose analytical strategies using protein characterization and stability methods such as SEC, CE SDS, icIEF, HIAC, MFI, and DLS. You will synthesize complex datasets into clear conclusions and communicate results to technical, leadership, and regulatory audiences while upholding safety, data integrity, and GxP standards.

A core focus of the role is building efficiency at scale by devising and deploying high‑throughput automated workflows to increase scientific depth and speed across a matrixed, cross‑site environment. You will mentor and develop laboratory scientists and represent the function on cross‑functional teams. This is a hands‑on technical leadership opportunity that converts complex biology into robust, scalable, clinically ready drug products, accelerating and de‑risking Abb Vie’s biologics pipeline through scientific rigor, DoE‑based design, deep analytics, and laboratory automation.

• Conceive and execute novel scientific research and development that achieves project and functional area goals and produced novel approaches to answer scientific questions and enable the development and characterization of biologic formulations.
• Understand and follow project strategic direction and ensure execution within study teams, seeking guidance when necessary.
• Generate new scientific proposals and lead efforts and strategy to drive innovation and implement strategies and approaches to increase efficiency and scientific depth.
• Develop and review detailed study plans to investigate, identify, develop, and optimize liquid and lyophilized drug products through design and execution of formulation, process development, and clinical in‑use studies. Utilization and understanding of DoE for planning experiments and modeling results is required.
• Accumulate and organize experimental and other relevant data, making appropriate recommendations for analyzing and interpreting results, and effectively communicate findings to various audiences in scientific presentations, technical reports, and regulatory documents.
• Maintain solid understanding and hands‑on experience in developing models for and characterizing biologic degradation pathways and introducing robust analytical approaches and techniques for characterization.
• Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding code of conduct, safety, appropriate handling of materials, controlled drug, and GxP compliance where applicable.
• May mentor/supervise a team of one or more and guide and evaluate the performance of those individuals; is accountable for the effective performance of team/individuals.
• Generate high‑quality data based on sound scientific principles and document results in an electronic lab notebook.
• Effectively communicate to various audiences and relay concise, consistent messages.
• Represent the function within cross‑functional and cross‑site technical teams.

• Bachelor’s Degree with 12+ years of experience, Master’s Degree with 10+ years of experience, or PhD with 4+ years of experience in the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry.
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