Scientist, RNA Process Development

Janssen Research & Development, LLC, a member of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies, is recruiting for a Scientist, RNA Process Development located in San Diego, CA.

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.

Specifically, you will lead manufacturing and investigations supporting early phase products. You will be responsible for designing and performing laboratory analyses of manufacturing process and investigations and summarizing findings in reports. You will also coordinate and lead all aspects of technical capabilities in the laboratory, ensuring calibration, maintenance and compliance for equipment that supports our key initiatives. You will support experiments for the evaluation and implementation of new technologies (including DoE design, technology scouting, analytical testing) working closely with various partners including discovery, engineering and site technical operations. As part of an international and multidisciplinary team, you will provide summaries of data generated for project updates and founded proposals for decisions and coordinate the planning of activities in close interaction with management.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Working closely with manufacturing site, support development of robust, scalable, and well characterized unit operations for USP and DSP procedures for short and long RNA molecules.

• Design, complete and analyze experiments for existing and novel methods, processes, and equipment technologies.

• Setup process equipment for lab-scale experiments.

• Collaborate with process development and multi-functional colleagues on analytical testing and sample results.

• Work in a team environment as well as contributing individually to meet project timelines and objectives.

• Maintain detailed documentation through electronic lab notebooks, technical reports, and technical presentations.

• Communicate findings to a wide audience in a timely and clear fashion.

• Implement continuous improvement for methods, processes and/or scientific procedures.

• Deliver reproducible and impactful results under ambitious timelines supporting development of manufacturing processes of early assets.