Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Laboratory Setting

Job Description

When you join Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., you become part of a dynamic team committed to innovation and excellence. Our ambitious projects contribute to making the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We offer an inclusive environment that fosters collaboration, where your outstanding expertise can flourish!

As a Staff Engineer, you will drive product and process innovation by adapting existing technology within R&D. You will collaborate with Thermo Fisher staff and customers to support the development and implementation of bio-manufacturing techniques and systems used to build biologic drug therapies.

• Be the go-to expert in-house for downstream purification techniques such as chromatography and filtration.
• Craft and implement experiments, analyze data, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish scalable and robust downstream processes that meet both client and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with customers, field application specialists, and sales teams to tailor products, implement test plans, carry out experiments, document findings, and interpret outcomes.
• Provide support for projects that prioritize customer satisfaction through technology transfer, process development, and manufacturing procedures. Take the lead in process feasibility, characterization, automation, qualification, and validation studies as needed.
• Detail experimental results/concepts to support patent and intellectual property portfolio; compile findings into detailed reports ready for publication.
• Present at technical conferences and represent the company as a leader with a point of view in the industry.
• Lead projects of moderate scope and mentor other team members.
• Travel as required to perform job functions.

• Bachelor of Science Degree in a related field-chemistry, biochemistry, physics, material science, biotechnology, or bio/chemical engineering; advanced degree and/or 8+ years of experience.
• Knowledge of downstream purification operations such as Chromatography (mAb, Cell and Gene therapy), viral inactivation, UFDF/TFF, and viral filtration in a cGMP environment.
• Experience specifying, crafting, and qualifying small- and large-scale bioprocess downstream purification unit operations and systems.
• Prior experience with scale-up processes from bench-scale to pilot and production scales up to 5000L, ensuring consistency and efficiency.
• Perform and lead single-use system design, selection, implementation, and control strategies.
• Highly knowledgable in biopharmaceutical processes and process equipment.
• Proficient in scientific method/analysis and applied mathematics/statistics.
• Project management skills and effective time management.