Principal Scientist – Multiscale Separations Team Lead

Location: Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America; onsite role. Relocation listed as domestic/international. Travel requirements: 10%.

Salary: $156,900–$247,000 annually, plus potential annual bonus and long-term incentive.

Company

hirify.global develops pharmaceutical and biotechnology products and supports drug discovery, development, and research programs.

What you will do

• Provide scientific leadership and operational oversight for purification and analytical chromatography capabilities supporting development programs across multiple therapeutic modalities.
• Lead chromatographic purification, analytical separations, impurity isolation, structural elucidation, chiral and achiral separations, and GMP toxicology delivery support.
• Advance Separation Sciences capabilities through innovative technologies, laboratory informatics, LIMS, automation-enabled workflows, digital solutions, and process improvements.
• Mentor and develop scientists and laboratory staff while fostering scientific excellence, safety, quality, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with Process Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Analytical Sciences, Automation, Informatics, IT, Facilities, Procurement, Engineering, vendors, and project teams.
• Support instrumentation strategy, capital planning, laboratory infrastructure, regulatory compliance, publications, presentations, collaborations, and external scientific engagement.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemical Engineering, or a related scientific discipline with at least 8 years of relevant industrial experience; or an M.S. in one of these disciplines with 10–12 years of relevant industrial experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, drug discovery, or related research environments.
• Extensive experience in chromatographic purification and analytical separations for drug development programs, including HPLC, uHPLC, LCMS, SFC, and preparative chromatography.
• Working knowledge of orthogonal detection technologies, including PDA, multi-angle light scattering, and charged aerosol detection.
• Hands-on experience delivering purification solutions across scales from µg to kg and translating work from early experimentation through larger-scale execution.
• Experience supporting multiple therapeutic modalities, including small molecules, peptides, adjuvants, and other emerging modalities.
• Ability to provide scientific leadership, influence technical direction, and deliver results in chromatography, separation sciences, and analytical chemistry.
• Experience implementing laboratory informatics platforms, LIMS, automation-enabled purification workflows, digital workflows, instrumentation, and process improvements.
• Experience mentoring and developing scientific staff, with strong communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
• Commitment to safety, quality, and operational excellence.

Nice to have

• Cross-functional and cross-site scientific leadership, capability deployment, technology transfer, and collaboration across internal and external CDMO purification networks.
• Experience in mass spectrometry and MS-directed chromatographic purification.
• Experience partnering with IT, Informatics, Automation, Facilities, Procurement, and external vendors.
• Experience with laboratory capital planning, laboratory build-out, infrastructure strategy, or scientific instrumentation portfolios.
• Publications, presentations, patents, or other evidence of external scientific engagement and professional visibility.
• Pharmaceutical cGMP experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular employment with medical, dental, vision, insurance, retirement, 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, compassionate leave, and sick days.
• Inclusive environment focused on diverse perspectives, respectful challenge, collective problem-solving, scientific excellence, and employee development.
• Flexible work arrangements are not applicable; the role is based in Rahway, New Jersey.
• Visa sponsorship is available.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted through the hirify.global careers portal; the posting is effective until the day before the listed end date of November 30, 2026.
• Accommodation support is available for U.S. and Puerto Rico residents who need it during the hiring process.