Senior Bioprocess Engineer II, MSAT, Proteins (Biotech)

Location: Visp, Switzerland; hybrid with a minimum of 3 days per week onsite. The role also oversees contract manufacturing organizations in Italy and Germany. Relocation assistance is not available.

Compensation: Competitive package with comprehensive benefits and an equity component.

Company

hirify.global develops vaccine products and is advancing late-stage clinical manufacturing, launch, and commercial operations for its pneumococcal conjugate vaccine portfolio.

What you will do

• Provide technical and operational support for microbial manufacturing operations from commercial readiness through PPQ and ongoing commercial production.
• Oversee CMO service providers in Switzerland, Italy, and Germany to support process validation and commercial manufacturing campaigns.
• Support technology transfer, equipment and technology procurement and qualification, process characterization, validation, and troubleshooting.
• Lead the planning, execution, documentation, and follow-up of manufacturing investigations and CAPAs.
• Drive continuous improvement, change management, process innovation, and application of first-principles process engineering.
• Collaborate with program management, process development, quality, facilities, regulatory, logistics, clinical supply, finance, and supplier management teams.

Requirements

• PhD in bioengineering, chemical engineering, microbiology, chemistry, or biochemistry with 8+ years of relevant pharma or biotech experience, or a master's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong experience in drug substance manufacturing under GMP regulations and understanding of quality systems.
• Hands-on expertise in bacterial fermentation, bioreactor systems, product recovery, purification, and process analytics or control systems.
• Knowledge of homogenization or microfluidization, centrifugation, depth filtration, chromatography, UF/DF TFF, and precipitation.
• Experience with troubleshooting, FMEA, investigations, CAPAs, facility fit assessment, technology transfer, process validation, and scale-down studies.
• Fluency in spoken and written English is mandatory.

Nice to have

• Experience with vaccine manufacturing operations and commercial manufacturing.
• Experience with drug substance manufacturing equipment specification and qualification.
• Knowledge of protein-polysaccharide conjugation principles or cell-free upstream technology.
• Experience with facility start-up, design of experiments, and managing direct reports.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a cross-functional MSAT environment supporting vaccine manufacturing.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Equity component included in the compensation package.
• Opportunity to present technical work to department, project, senior management, and external scientific audiences.

Hiring process

• Applications are submitted through the company careers process and reviewed by the recruiting team.