# Process Development Engineering Senior Scientific Associate - High throughput Screening

Job Description General Summary Vertex is looking for a lab-based Senior Scientific Associate, Media Development to expand high-throughput media development capabilities and accelerate optimization of stem cell-based cell therapy processes. The role executes high-throughput and Design of Experiments (DoE) media screening studies using 96-well plate, ambr15, ambr250, and other scalable platforms to evaluate how media components and culture conditions influence cell growth, pluripotency, differentiation, and process performance. Working with scientists and cross-functional analytical partners, the successful candidate will combine high-throughput experimentation, data analytics, automation, and process analytical technologies (PAT) to identify key drivers of performance, understand interactions between media and process variables, and accelerate development of robust media formulations. Key Duties and Responsibilities Executes high-throughput and DoE-based media screening studies using 96-well plate, ambr15, ambr250, and other scalable cell culture platforms Partners with scientists to execute multifactorial screens that evaluate main effects and interactions among media components,

- **Id**: 4267485
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/vertex-pharmaceuticals-process-development-engineering-senior-scientific-associate-high-throughput-screening>
- **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**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T16:50:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T16:50:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6992
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Drug Discovery, 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**: 91
- **Open postings**: 29
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.379
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 38
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## 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

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T16:50:25Z

## 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**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 39
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T21:04:11Z

## Pay

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

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