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Process Development is at the heart of fulfilling this purpose as we translate advanced science into streamlined, robust processes that deliver medicines to patients globally.\nWhat You Will Achieve\nAs a Senior Associate Scientist within the Early Bioprocess Development (EBPD) group in the Vaccines organization, you will apply cutting-edge technologies to accelerate the development of high-quality protein subunit vaccines. This role is highly technical and collaborative, requiring deep hands-on expertise in molecular biology, cell culture, and data-driven process optimization.\nYour goals will be:\nOptimize cell line development workflows to improve subunit protein expression, overall productivity, process efficiency and biological robustness of the production systems\n\nExecute fermentation to characterize key performance indicators including cell fitness, growth, recovery, protein production yield, protein purity etc.\n\nPerform data analysis to identify patterns, establishing quantitative correlations between input parameters such as DNA sequences and output values such as protein yield and quality.\n\nPresent experimental data and strategic conclusions at cross-functional meetings, contributing to team-wide knowledge sharing.\n\nHow You Will Achieve It\nCollaborating with multi-disciplinary teams and working closely with the cell culture, purification, mRNA production and analytical groups.\n\nMaintain impeccable, timely records in Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) and author comprehensive technical/production reports.\n\nDraft, review, and contribute to internal technical reports and external scientific publications.\n\nContribute to building a culture that embraces excellence, urgency, partnerships with key stakeholders, continuous learning and improvement, increasing technical skill base and other cross-functional expertise.\n\nEnsure all tasks and responsibilities are carried out according to scientific, ethical and regulatory standards.\n\nQualifications\nMust-Have\nB.S. degree with 3 to 5 years of relevant industry or research experience,or M.S. in bioengineering, biochemistry, chemical engineering or related fields with 0 to 3 years of experience\n\nExperience in aseptic cell culture techniques, including cell passaging and maintenance, transfection, monitoring cell morphology and viability.\n\nExperience in using flow cytometry, and cell sorting cytometers as well as flow cytometry analysis software such as FlowJo.\n\nKnowledge and hands-on experience in molecular biology techniques including DNA/RNA extraction, PCR, ddPCR, RT-PCR, ligation, cloning, transformation, gel electrophoresis, SDS-PAGE, western blot, ELISA.\n\nWell organized, self-motivated, team-oriented with high attention to detail.\n\nStrong collaborative spirit and communication skills.\n\nNice-to-Have\nExperience in setting up, feeding, sampling and controlling benchtop or single-use bioreactors (batch, fed-batch)\n\nHands-on knowledge and experience with NGS sequencing platforms.\n\nOTHER JOB DETAILS\nWork Location Assignment: On site\n\nThe annual base salary for this position ranges from $68,600.00 to $114,300.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 7.5% of the base salary. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site - U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.\n\nRelocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.\n\nCandidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.\nU.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.\n\nSunshine Act\nPfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.\n\nEEO & Employment Eligibility\nPfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.\nPfizer endeavors to makewww.pfizer.com/careers accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process and/or interviewing, please . This is to be used solely for accommodation requests with respect to the accessibility of our website, online application process and/or interviewing. Requests for any other reason will not be returned.\n\nTo learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers.\n\nResearch and Development","description_format":"text","description_chars":6715,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning","Relocation assistance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Prescription Drugs","Oncology Therapeutics","Infectious Disease Therapeutics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-20T12:45:55Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":4,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":0.9,"p_active":0.167,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":49,"expected_fill_days":13,"reasons":["conf:52","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":114300,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/pfizer-senior-associate-scientist-process-development-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/pfizer-senior-associate-scientist-process-development-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T00:56:26Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1272,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3480},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3480"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fpfizer-senior-associate-scientist-process-development-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fpfizer-senior-associate-scientist-process-development-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fpfizer-senior-associate-scientist-process-development-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/pfizer-senior-associate-scientist-process-development-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fpfizer-senior-associate-scientist-process-development-2"}]}