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The successful candidate will be responsible for the technical leadership of process chemistry that delivers oligonucleotide Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturing processes. Additionally, the position is responsible to conduct laboratory-scale experiments using current best practices for robust technical transfer.

Essential duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Technical leadership of API process chemistry to achieve business commitments
• Process chemistry support of project teams that may include process establishment, process optimization, intermediate sample production, reference standard production, and finished product batch production.
• Contribute knowledge and ideas for solving key operational challenges
• Design and conduct laboratory-scale experiments in a safe and effective manner with expertise in operating numerous process chemistry instruments.
• Design and conduct laboratory-scale experiments using current best practices for technical transfer.
• Present technical summaries in business settings such as customer meetings, internal strategy or external conferences.
• Maintain process compliance integrity by adhering to standard operating procedures (SOP's) and current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) as appropriate.
• Determines and develops approaches to assignments
• Lead scientific projects requiring coordination with other functions
• Solve a broad range of scientific problems of varying scope and complexity