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At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.Internal Career Site
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Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company founded in 1987. Together we deliver life-saving therapies to patients in need. With the commitment and drive you bring to the workplace every day, you will be part of a team that is changing the world and helping millions of people live healthier, more fulfilling lives. Our worldwide staff is a close community where you can see the tangible results of your contributions, where every individual matters, and everyone has a chance to enhance their skills through ongoing development. Our scientific focus has resulted in marketed products that are benefiting hundreds of thousands of people, a pipeline of late-stage drug candidates, and unmatched patient access programs to ensure medications are available to those who could otherwise not afford them. By joining Gilead, you will further our mission to address unmet medical needs and improve life by advancing the care of patients with life-threatening diseases.
Gilead has an opportunity in our Biologics Development operations at our Oceanside facility in Southern California. We are seeking motivated, team-oriented individuals with scientific expertise in process development as well as pre-clinical and clinical operations related to recombinant proteins.
Specific Responsibilities and skills for Position:
- The successful candidate will have a working understanding of downstream process development and scale up including centrifugation, normal flow filtration, chromatography operations, tangential flow filtration, and virus inactivation/removal. The ability to demonstrate hands on experience in several of these areas is expected.
- The candidate is expected to work effectively within the purification team to help design and execute experiments supporting process definition, optimization, and characterization with an increasing level of independence.
- The candidate will collaborate with Technical Operations in technology transfer from process development to clinical and commercial GMP manufacturing, including definition of bill of materials, batch record drafting/review, and discrepancy resolution. The candidate will also contribute to the preparation of regulatory filings and process validation and characterization reports.
- The applicant should be an effective communicator of ideas, project goals and results to the team and should have the ability to proactively identify issues and suggest solutions in a collaborative multidisciplinary environment. This is a highly collaborative environment where willingness and ability to communicate and work effectively with individuals across various teams is essential.
- Candidates should be self-motivated, organized, and enjoy scientific investigation and thinking. The applicant is also expected to recommend alternatives, research new methods and technologies that can advance purification platforms, and proactively seek out senior personnel to discuss potential solutions to problems. The candidate will monitor and contribute to external literature and scientific conferences.
Essential Duties and Job Functions:
- Hands-on execution of all aspects of purification process development, process scale up and GMP manufacturing support.
- Ability to work with increasing independence in the initiation and execution of laboratory experimentation
- Willingness to proactively seeking out senior personnel to define goals, design experiments, discuss results and suggest next steps.
Knowledge, Experience and Skills:
- Requires a BS (2+ years of experience) or MS (0+ years) in Chemical/Biochemical Engineering, Biochemistry or a related scientific discipline and relevant experience that demonstrates experience in purification process development.
- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and technical) and interpersonal skills are required.
- Must be able to participate in highly effective teams, and work with collaborative communication and problem‑solving spirit.
- Demonstrates ability to recognize anomalous and inconsistent results and interpret experimental outcomes.
The salary range for this position is: $84,405.00 - $109,230.00. Gilead considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation, including experience, qualifications, and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role), paid time off, and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans*.
For additional benefits information, visit:
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- Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.
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