Sr. Associate Scientist – III

South San Francisco, California
August 27, 2025
$50 / hour
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Job Summary:

  • At Client, we are inspired by the belief that a research-driven enterprise dedicated to scientific excellence can create medicines and vaccines that save and improve lives.
  • Every employee is building on our proud legacy of scientific breakthrough.
  • Our ability to impact the lives of patients worldwide depends on the integrity, creativity, humility, and scientific acumen of our team.
  • We are creating a diverse organization that is inspired by invention and founded on a culture of respect and collaboration.
  • At Client Research Labs, you’ll have the opportunity to expand your knowledge and skills through collaboration with talented and dedicated colleagues while advancing your career.
  • A contractor at Client’s department in South San Francisco will have the exciting opportunity to help identify, characterize, and successfully transition quality drug candidate compounds from discovery to development.
  • The successful candidate also will have the opportunity to help investigate new technologies related to drug delivery, pharmaceutics, and other areas relevant to Client’s drug discovery/development programs.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Help prepare/design enabling preclinical formulations (drug delivery).
  • Perform solution and solid-state chemistry characterization experiments.
  • Instrument maintenance and preparation routine laboratory reagents (i.e., buffers)
  • Help with shipping and ordering lab supplies.
  • Perform protein stability characterization studies.
  • A typical day would include preparation of formulation components and molecules of interest to enable stability and performance testing.
  • Testing is often done by HPLC based techniques (HPLC-UV, HPLC-SEC-RI) as well as electrophoresis methods.
  • Thermal and X-ray analysis is also common to fully characterize small molecules and biologics.
  • Your results would be captured in an electronic lab notebook and communicated to other team members as we support projects.
  • The labs are a fast paced and exciting environment as your data will be key to decision making in our labs.

Education:

  • BS/MS/PHD in Pharmaceutical Science, Chemistry, materials science, bioengineering, or related science; Prior professional experience in pharmaceutical sciences highly preferred.

Experience:

  • With BS with 4 years, Masters with 2 years, PHD with 1 year of experience in pharmaceutical sciences within academic environment.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Working in a lab setting.
  • HPLC analysis of molecules(biologics and small molecule.)
  • Recording results in a notebook.
  • MS office suite(excel, power point, Word)
  • Excellent laboratory skills in analytical chemistry or a related field are critical.
  • Experience in chemical compound handling, purification and characterization is a must.
  • Ability to work on different projects in parallel is required.
  • Buffer prep/basic wet chemistry, solid-state characterization /pharmaceutics.
  • Must excel in a team environment.

Nice to haves:

  • Small scale pre-formulations.
  • ELN experience.
  • Liquid handling robotics.
  • TECAN liquid handling.
  • Analytical characterization.

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