PAT Senior Data Scientist

Job title: PAT Senior Data Scientist

Location: Waltham, MA

Main Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy predictive models and monitoring tools that support real-time oversight of vaccine development and manufacturing processes.

• Build predictive models and soft sensors for critical process parameters and critical quality attributes using process and analytical data.

• Analyze data from spectroscopic and sensor-based monitoring tools, including Raman, near-infrared, infrared, and UV-visible technologies, across online, in-line, and at-line settings.

• Apply multivariate analysis, machine learning, and statistical techniques to strengthen process understanding, performance, and product quality.

• Partner with process development, manufacturing, analytical sciences, automation, and digital teams to bring these solutions into development and commercial manufacturing settings.

• Support process characterization, scale-up, technology transfer, validation, and ongoing process verification through advanced data analysis.

• Help shape strategy and best practices for real-time process monitoring across mRNA and non-mRNA vaccine platforms.

About You

Basic Qualifications

Education

• Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Biotechnology, Analytical Chemistry, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related scientific field.

Experience

• 1+ years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical industry or academia. Interns and co-ops will be considered.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing and applying real-time process monitoring, chemometric, machine learning, or data science solutions within biopharmaceutical, biotechnology, or vaccine development and manufacturing settings.
• Expertise in chemometrics, multivariate data analysis, machine learning, and spectroscopy-based monitoring (Raman, near-infrared, infrared, UV-visible).
• Experience developing calibration, prediction, classification, and soft sensor models using process and analytical data.
• Proficiency in Python, SIMCA, SynTQ, or Unscrambler.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills across multidisciplinary teams.

Languages: Fluent English required.

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team. 
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it's through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally. 
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact. 
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave.
• Work at the forefront of drug discovery, harnessing cutting-edge AI, data, and digital platforms to push the boundaries of science. 
• Help improve the lives of millions of people globally by making drug development quicker and more effective. 
• Enjoy opportunities to collaborate beyond your area of expertise, working with diverse teams across science, clinical, and digital fields to spark new ideas and drive breakthroughs. 

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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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