Senior Scientist I, Engineering

Job overview

The Senior Scientist I, Engineering is an onsite role in North Chicago, IL. Compensation is not specified. AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver medicines and solutions for serious health issues. The role develops and optimizes scalable engineering processes for pharmaceutical and natural-product modalities. It assesses process robustness and scale-up risks, conducts experiments and troubleshooting, and collaborates with technical, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing teams to support development and commercialization.

What you'll do

• Apply chemical engineering principles to experimental design and data analysis
• conduct research and development activities
• perform laboratory, pilot plant, and manufacturing support work
• design follow-up experiments
• investigate product failures and recommend remediation
• author technical reports, regulatory documents, presentations, publications, or patents
• mentor engineers
• follow safety and GxP requirements.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior scientist

chemical engineering

process development

pharmaceuticals

scale-up

process robustness

laboratory research

pilot plant

manufacturing support

gxp

north chicago il

abbvie

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Paid time off
• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• short-term incentive program.

Why this role

Supports late-stage development, commercialization, and product life-cycle work across pharmaceutical modalities.

About the employer

AbbVie is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology). Sector: 54.