Process Development Senior Scientist (ADC Biologics)

Location: Thousand Oaks, California, United States; onsite work supporting laboratory formulation, sterile filling, and manufacturing activities.

Company

hirify.global is a biotechnology company developing, manufacturing, and delivering medicines for serious illnesses across oncology, inflammation, general medicine, and rare disease.

What you will do

• Participate in drug product commercialization teams for pipeline development and lifecycle management of commercial products.
• Design, execute, and document formulation and process development studies for liquid and lyophilized biologics.
• Develop ADC drug product formulations, handling procedures, and lab-scale sterile filling processes.
• Build process understanding across unit operations, evaluate stability and in-use compatibility, and support scalable manufacturing.
• Apply statistical analytics, AI, machine learning, and data science to predictive modeling and technical decision-making.
• Prepare technical, regulatory, risk assessment, control-strategy, and technology-transfer documentation; support CMO/CDMO transfers and manufacturing troubleshooting.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree, or a master’s degree with 2 years of scientific experience, or a bachelor’s degree with 4 years of scientific experience.
• Experience in biologics formulation development, stability testing, and fill/finish operations; direct ADC drug product formulation experience is strongly preferred.
• Understanding of ADC development, including linker-payload stability, drug-to-antibody ratio, degradation pathways, quality attributes, and comparability.
• Experience with analytical and biophysical techniques such as UPLC/HPLC, SEC, IEX, RP-HPLC, HIC, CE-SDS, and subvisible particle analysis.
• Ability to integrate formulation, stability, and analytical data and contribute to regulatory submissions such as CTAs and BLAs.
• Strong scientific communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• PhD in Pharmaceutics, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, or a related field.
• 2–4 years of postdoctoral or industry experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, innovative, science-based working environment.
• Health, dental, vision, life, disability, and flexible spending benefits.
• Retirement and savings plan with company contributions.
• Annual bonus program and stock-based long-term incentives.
• Paid time off and career development opportunities.