Engineer II, Drug Product Development

Location: Norwood, Massachusetts, United States; 70% in-office work model. Due to U.S. export control requirements, only U.S. persons are eligible.

Salary: $74,000–$118,400 per year, with potential bonus, incentive compensation, or equity award.

Company

hirify.global develops mRNA medicines and technologies for creating and delivering new treatments.

What you will do

• Develop sterile drug product processes and products for clinical and future commercial supply.
• Conduct scale-up studies covering freeze/thaw, mixing, filling, filtration, lyophilization, and transport.
• Develop protocols for compatibility testing of drug products with processing materials, container closure components, and sterilization processes.
• Plan and execute laboratory experiments, using design of experiments where possible, and prepare protocols, presentations, and study reports.
• Perform drug product characterization, including opacity testing, microscopy, and particle sizing, while maintaining accurate ELN documentation.
• Collaborate with analytical development, pilot operations, manufacturing, and other groups on stability, troubleshooting, investigations, and innovative process solutions.

Requirements

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, biomedical engineering, pharmaceutical sciences, or a related discipline.
• 0–2 years of relevant experience after a master’s degree or at least 2 years after a bachelor’s degree.
• Strong laboratory skills and the ability to work productively in a dynamic interdisciplinary environment.
• Knowledge of statistical design of experiments and data analysis.
• Must qualify as a U.S. person under U.S. export control laws; non-U.S. persons cannot be sponsored for an export control license.
• Ability to travel up to 20%.

Nice to have

• Experience in the biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or bioPharma industry.
• Knowledge of nucleic acid chemistry and biology.
• Experience with nanoparticle formulation technology.
• Knowledge of GMP compliance.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person collaboration supported through a 70/30 work model.
• Healthcare and voluntary benefit programs.
• Fitness, mindfulness, and mental health resources.
• Family planning benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
• Paid vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and year-end shutdown.
• Savings and investment programs, plus location-specific perks.