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Associate Principal Scientist, Engineering- Biologics, Sterile Drug Product Commercialization

at Merck

📍 USA - Pennsylvania - West Point Hybrid 💰 $142K – $224K USD / year Posted March 18, 2026
Salary $142K – $224K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience mid
Exp. Years Not specified
Education Not specified
Category Science & Research

This role involves leading biologics process development, scale-up, transfer, and validation activities for late-stage and commercial drug products, ensuring regulatory compliance and manufacturing success.

  • Lead process scale-up
  • Manage technology transfer
  • Conduct process validation
  • Prepare regulatory submissions
  • Support manufacturing investigations

Focus on biologics, sterile drug process validation, technology transfer, and regulatory submissions within a biotech/pharmaceutical environment.

The ideal candidate is an experienced scientist with expertise in biologics and sterile drug products, with a strong background in process scale-up, transfer, validation, and regulatory submissions. They should have leadership skills and experience supporting late-stage manufacturing and process development.

Process scale-upTechnology transferProcess validationRegulatory submissionsBiologics expertise
Late-stage commercializationProcess development
None specified
Process scale-uptechnology transferprocess validationregulatory submissionsbiologics
BiologicsSterile drug productProcess scale-upTechnology transferProcess validationRegulatory submissionsProcess characterization
LeadershipMentorshipStrategic thinkingCollaborationProblem-solving
Industry Pharmaceuticals
Job Function Advance biologics manufacturing processes for commercialization
Role Subtype Science & Research
Tech Domains Biologics, Process validation, Technology transfer
Associate Principal Scientistbiologicssterile drug productprocess scale-uptechnology transferprocess validationregulatory submissionsprocess characterizationmanufacturing investigationsbiologics pipelinelate-stage commercialization

Lack of biologics experience, No process validation or transfer experience, Inability to support regulatory submissions, No leadership or mentorship background

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