Scientist, Preclinical Dev.

Merck

Full-time other-general
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Location
West Point, PA, United States
Posted
June 20, 2026

Job Description

**Job Description**

**Role Summary:**

Vaccines and Advanced Biotechnologies Process R&D (VaxPRD) is responsible for the development and clinical manufacturing of Drug Substance (DS) and Drug Product Intermediates (DPI) for the vaccine and advanced therapy pipeline, spanning from preclinical to commercialization stages. We are part of the Process R&D organization, which enables modality-agnostic DS/DP process development and clinical manufacturing for our company's pipeline. Our vaccines upstream process development team develops safe, scalable, robust, cost-effective upstream processes that enable clinical and commercial manufacture of vaccines and adjuvants across all vaccine modalities.

Under the direction of the group leader, the individual will be responsible for upstream process development of vaccine candidates. The successful candidate will plan, perform, and critically evaluate lab scale process development and scale-up studies, develop robust, effici...