Process Development Associate

About the Role

• Location: Tarrytown, NY
• Work model: On-site, hands-on laboratory role
• Group: Early-Stage Purification Development within Preclinical Manufacturing & Process Development (PMPD)

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 with the project team.
• 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.
• Collaborate with project teams, peers, and co-op students/interns.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Biochemistry, or a related scientific discipline.
• 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.
• Preferred: A fundamental understanding of protein purification principles.
• Preferred: Experience with downstream development equipment such as ÄKTA Avant, ÄKTA Pilot, ÄKTA Process Skid, disc-stack centrifuges, depth filtration, tangential-flow filtration, normal-flow filtration, chromatographic columns, HPLC, UPLC, and ultrafiltration/diafiltration systems.
• Preferred: Experience with software including Empower, UNICORN, JMP, LIMS, and PI Historian.