# Process Development Engineering Senior Scientific Associate

Job Description General Summary: Vertex is seeking a lab-based Senior Scientific Associate to provide engineering and operational expertise within Upstream Process Development Engineering. This individual contributor will support T1D programs through high-throughput and bench-scale bioreactor studies, with particular emphasis on ambr250 operations, small-scale model development, stirred-tank reactor (STR) process robustness, and process characterization. The role will plan and execute studies, solve complex equipment and process issues, coordinate materials and laboratory activities, and translate experimental data into clear technical conclusions. The successful candidate will serve as a technical resource for ambr250 and bioreactor operations and will partner across Process Development, Research, Analytical Development, Manufacturing, and other functions to align best practices, improve platform reliability, and establish consistent approaches across teams and sites. Key Duties and Responsibilities: Plans, coordinates, executes, and documents upstream process-development studies using ambr250 and bench-scale bioreactor platforms in support of STR scale-up, process robustness, and

- **Id**: 4291886
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/vertex-pharmaceuticals-process-development-engineering-senior-scientific-associate-3>
- **Role**: Biotech
- **Role family**: Biotech
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Boston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T23:37:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T05:47:32Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8693
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Cell & Gene Therapy, Rare Disease Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 5871
- **Name**: Vertex Pharmaceuticals
- **Domain**: vrtx.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/vrtx>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 28
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 39
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 73900
- **Max**: 110900
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 110900

## Technologies

- **Bioreactors** — Optional: no
- **Cell Culture** — Optional: no
- **Design of Experiments** — Optional: no
- **JMP** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T23:37:13Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 174 · green card filings: 21; Filings 12m: 174

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 39
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 110900
- **Is top pay**: no

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