Process Development Associate

About the Role

Join BioSpace as a Process Development Associate in our Early-Stage Purification Development group, supporting the Tarrytown, NY site. This is an on-site, lab-based role focused on developing life-changing medicines. You will collaborate with project teams, peers, and interns to support purification process development for preclinical biological molecules and contribute to technology transfers.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute process development experiments for preclinical and clinical processes.
• Document experiments, results, and findings in an electronic laboratory notebook.
• Analyze experimental data, identify trends or unexpected results, and share findings.
• Maintain laboratory instruments and troubleshoot routine instrumental and experimental problems.
• Support technologies that improve throughput and efficiency of preclinical manufacturing.
• Support scale-up and technology transfer activities to internal manufacturing sites.
• Present experimental work at group and department meetings.
• Build relationships, assist peers, and guide co-op students/interns.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Foundation of basic scientific or engineering knowledge from academic training or experience.
• Hands-on laboratory experience and a working knowledge of laboratory safety.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Comfortable organizing and interpreting experimental data.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Biochemistry, or a related scientific discipline.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A fundamental understanding of protein purification principles.
• Experience with downstream development equipment such as KTA Avant, KTA Pilot, KTA Process Skid, disc-stack centrifuges, depth filtration, tangential-flow filtration, normal-flow filtration, chromatographic columns, HPLC, UPLC, and ultrafiltration/diafiltration systems.
• Experience with software including Empower, UNICORN, JMP, LIMS, and PI Historian.