Scientist - Physicochemical Development

Do you have a passion for Science? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

About AstraZeneca in Gaithersburg, MD:

Our Gaithersburg, Maryland facility creates life-changing medicines for people around the world. This campus employs more than 3,500 experts in our field and is only a short drive from Washington, DC. This modern and vibrant scientific campus is the home of R&D and Oncology in the US. Here, we play host to some of the most cutting-edge technology and lab spaces, all designed to inspire collaboration and cross-functional science. We believe employees benefit from being challenged and inspired at work. We are dedicated to creating a culture of inclusion and collaboration.

The Gaithersburg site offers a variety of amenities to help boost productivity and help keep our employees happy and healthy. This includes a fitness centre, employee healthcare clinic, electric vehicle charging stations, dry cleaning, full-service cafeteria, and copy centre. This is where you’ll find newly designed, activity-based workspaces to suit a variety of working styles while increasing collaboration between teams.

AstraZeneca has an opportunity for a Scientist in the Physicochemical Development Group within the Analytical Sciences Department in Gaithersburg, MD.

Summary of the group

In the Analytical Sciences group, you’ll play a pivotal role in channelling our scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients’ lives. We’re constantly pushing the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients, with a passion for discovery and a pipeline to show for it. We’re pioneering innovative research and exploring novel pathways across key therapeutic areas including oncology, respiratory, inflammation and autoimmunity, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, and infection and vaccines. And we’re industry-leading in immunology, protein engineering and translational science. We offer a unique and strong collaborative network as part of the AstraZeneca family.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing, troubleshooting, and/or executing assays using Chromatography, Electrophoresis, and/or Mass Spectrometry techniques in supporting development, manufacturing, and characterization of biopharmaceutical products, such as humanized monoclonal antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, and recombinant proteins. The candidate will be expected to make detailed experimental observations, review and analyze data, and interpret experimental results, and summarize data for presentations and reports. The candidate will have opportunity to author/revise SOPs, protocols, technical reports and other relevant documentation.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Hands on experience on chromatography (SEC, IEC, RPLC, GC), and/or electrophoresis (cIEF, CE-SDS).
• Relevant industry working experience as well as a background in protein chemistry.
• Great teamwork and communication skills, both verbal and written, are critical.
• Good multi-tasking, time management and organizational skills are required. essential.
• The ability to follow SOPs, policies, and regulations, and to perform routine lab equipment maintenance is required.
• Ability to work in a team environment, attention to detail and strong verbal and written communication skills are also necessary.
• Experience with glycan and peptide mapping analysis is a plus.

Education/Experience:

• Scientist: BS degree with 5+ years or MS with 2+ years of laboratory experience

Special Skills/Abilities: Familiarity with data analysis software such as Empower and OpenLab

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what’s next!

Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it’s yours.

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