Process Development Associate Scientist (Biotech)

Location: Thousand Oaks, California, United States

Salary: $90,442.55–$122,363.45 per year

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

• Develop clinical and commercial formulations and processes for synthetic drug products in oral and parenteral dosage forms.
• Design, execute, optimize, and analyze spray-drying formulation and process development experiments.
• Support scale-up from laboratory to manufacturing scale, including equipment evaluation, technology transfer, troubleshooting, and identification of critical process parameters and quality attributes.
• Contribute to formulation development, process improvements, lifecycle management, and cross-functional technical strategies.
• Use digital tools and AI-enabled solutions to improve experimental efficiency, data analysis, automation, and scientific insight generation.
• Organize and communicate scientific information while collaborating across the Drug Product Technologies Department.

Requirements

• Master’s degree and at least 1 year of scientific experience, or bachelor’s degree and at least 3 years of scientific experience.
• Relevant education in pharmaceutical sciences, chemical or pharmaceutical engineering, chemistry, or a life sciences-related field.
• Understanding of oral solid dosage manufacturing operations, including granulation, roller compaction, drying, milling, blending, compression, and film coating.
• Knowledge of synthetic molecule stability, enabling formulations, amorphous solid dispersions, spray drying, hot-melt extrusion, roller compaction, and compression.
• Ability to design, execute, and interpret experiments and solve formulation and characterization problems for oral and parenteral synthetic molecules.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, innovative, and science-based work environment.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
• Retirement and savings plan with company contributions and stock-based long-term incentives.
• Discretionary annual bonus program and award-winning time-off plans.
• Career development opportunities and flexible work models where applicable.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted until a sufficient number of candidates are received or a candidate is selected.
• Sponsorship is not guaranteed.