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Pharmaceutical Scientist
Full Time
Carlsbad, California, United States (This job is on-site)
Job description
Scismic is supporting the growth of a medical device company that is committed to transforming the treatment of insulin requiring diabetes. Their technology automatically controls glucose through a state-of-the-art implantable insulin pump paired with a glucose sensor. This new approach - fully automatic and implantable - gives people true freedom from the heavy burden of insulin therapy.
We are looking for a Pharmaceutical Scientist to join the team in Carlsbad, CA!
Reports to:
Senior Scientific Staff
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop and validate new analytical methods for the testing of drug substances and finished products
- Manage long term testing for pharmaceutical/device interactions
- Perform chemical analysis in support of quality processes
- Provide scientific support for intellectual property in regard to pharmaceutical inventions
- Write standard operating procedures (SOPs) for new and existing methods
- Perform method troubleshooting
- Participate in publishing data in peer-reviewed journals and presentations
- Maintain a current knowledge of relevant scientific literature
Required Qualifications:
- PhD in Chemistry
- 0-2 years experience
- Excellent laboratory skills including HPLC and other conventional chemical analytical instruments
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
- Ability to write scientific reports including data treatment
- Desired Qualifications:
- Ability to write scientific papers suitable for publication
- Knowledge of diabetes related pharmaceuticals
- Personal/professional knowledge of diabetes and related therapeutic advances.
- HPLC method development and/or validation experience
- Familiarity with insulin infusion pumps (CSII)
- Some familiarity with USP or EP test methods
- Some familiarity with GMP or GLP documentation and procedure requirements
- Knowledge of bio-materials engineering or materials science
- Experience with analytical sciences in the pharmaceutical or nutraceutical industry
- Experience in formulation development, analytical services, or a regulated quality control
- environment
- Experience designing and executing formulation stability studies is a plus
- Knowledge of biopharmaceuticals, especially experience studying protein stability or aggregation