**Shift:** Standard business hours **Job Description:** The Pre-Pivotal Drug Substance Technologies organization at company develops, characterizes and supports clinical drug substance manufacturing processes for all early-stage programs in the company’s portfolio. This lab-based position is located at our Thousand Oaks, CA site. The successful candidate will be responsible for support of the development, characterization, scale-up and support of upstream and downstream processes to enable clinical advancement of company programs. This role is in an integrated bioprocess development group in which cell culture and purification scientists work together to advance company’s rich, exciting and dynamic pipeline. With company biology first approach, the position provides the unique opportunity to work on multiple modalities including antibodies, BiTEs, oncolytic viruses, bispecifics, and siRNAs. The successful candidate will design and execute experiments at the bench scale, spanning the end-to-end drug substance process, including both cell culture and purification operations. The candidate will apply established platform approaches and utilize problem-solving skills to rapidly solve day-to-day experimental challenges. Additionally, the candidate will utilize out-of-the-box thinking to contribute to technology development, including process automation. Finally, the candidate will also expand and develop skills in both cell culture and purification, thereby further contributing to the integrated group. **Key Responsibilities:** + Work in a team environment to contribute to drug substance process development. + Complete mammalian cell culture experiments at different scales in shake flasks and bioreactors. + Implement purification experiments, mainly filtration and chromatography, at bench and pilot scale as needed. + Document experimental data in lab notebooks. + Analyze the data and present to the team. + Author technical reports and support regulatory filing as needed. + Contribute to technology development projects to seek continuous improvement in reliability and efficiency. + The candidate will have opportunities to work in cell culture development and purification development to become a well-rounded process development scientist with experience in upstream and downstream. **Qualifications:** **Minimum Requirements:** + Bachelors degree OR + Associates degree and 2 years of experience OR + High school diploma / GED and 4 years of experience **Top 3 must have skills:** + Degree in Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Biomedical engineering, or Bioprocessing field or relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or related industry preferred. + 1+ years of relevant hands-on industry lab experience in cell culture or protein purification. (outside of education) + Attention to details and critical thinking ability. **Disclaimer:** _"US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran"_