Late-Stage LNP Process Development Scientist

Location: Boston, MA, USA; candidates must live within a commutable distance. Full-time, Monday–Friday, 8:00am–5:00pm, with overtime as needed.

Salary: USD 36.00–41.00 per hour

Company

hirify.global is an international life sciences company providing analytical testing, laboratory, pharmaceutical, genomics, discovery pharmacology, CDMO, and clinical study support services.

What you will do

• Support process development, scale-up, and process characterization for LNP clinical-stage drug products across 10 mg to 1 gram batch ranges.
• Execute in-process analytics, including dynamic light scattering, UV quantification via Ribogreen, pH, and osmolality.
• Perform laboratory experiments with limited supervision under subject matter expert guidance.
• Organize, analyze, interpret, and present data to process development and cross-functional teams.
• Author SOPs, technical reports, and protocols, and document experiments in electronic lab notebooks such as Benchling.
• Maintain laboratory equipment, order critical reagents, and support operational excellence activities.

Requirements

• B.S. in chemical or biomedical engineering, chemistry, biological sciences, or a related field with 3–4 years of relevant laboratory experience; or an M.S. in biological or biochemical sciences with 1–2 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with bench-scale LNP drug product manufacturing, especially mixing and tangential flow filtration processes.
• Experience with nucleic acid process development, dynamic light scattering, and osmolality monitoring.
• Experience using electronic lab notebooks such as Benchling and preparing SOPs, technical reports, and protocols.
• Strong data analysis, troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, organization, and time-management skills.
• Authorization to work indefinitely in the United States without restriction or sponsorship is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with UV quantification via Ribogreen.
• Experience with GMP manufacturing practices, tech transfer, T-mixing and TFF.
• Experience with statistical analysis software such as JMP or Design-Expert.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, cross-functional environment focused on science-based manufacturing solutions for complex nucleic acid drug products.
• Professional growth opportunities within the biopharmaceutical industry.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) with company match, paid vacation and holidays.
• Yearly goal-based bonus eligibility and merit-based increases.