# Associate Research Fellow

ROLE SUMMARY: The key strategic focus within the Internal Medicine Research Unit (IMRU) is identifying novel therapies to prevent or treat metabolic diseases such as obesity and cardiovascular disease. Our goal is to build a world-class research team of dedicated scientists committed to developing a deep mechanistic understanding of the metabolic pathways underlying disease pathogenesis. As a senior scientific leader and member of the obesity discovery biology team, this individual will play a significant role in shaping the scientific direction for the obesity therapeutic area and influencing broader IMRU research strategy and portfolio priorities. The individual will help create and drive discovery research strategy across multiple programs, including target ideation, validation, translational biomarker strategy, hypothesis testing, and early clinical development within the IMRU obesity portfolio. The successful candidate will lead through both direct team leadership and influence across multidisciplinary partners, helping align scientific decisions across discovery biology, translational sciences, clinical, computational, and external collaborators. The individual will identify

- **Id**: 4197293
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pfizer-associate-research-fellow>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T20:55:37Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T11:19:05Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9427
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Relocation assistance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Oncology Therapeutics, Infectious Disease Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 3480
- **Name**: Pfizer
- **Domain**: pfizer.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pfizer>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 36
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.583
- **Repost share**: 0.028
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 13
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 162900
- **Max**: 271500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 271500

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T20:55:37Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 114; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 47 · green card filings: 2; Filings 12m: 47

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:9, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T20:52:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 271500
- **Is top pay**: yes

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