About the Role
ORIC Pharmaceuticals is seeking a highly motivated Process Development and Chemistry Senior Scientist to design and execute multi-step experimental studies, utilizing analytical tools to ensure safe and scalable processes. This role involves cross-functional collaboration, authoring technical reports, and facilitating technology transfer for GMP manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Design, planning, and execution of multi-step experimental studies to provide safe, efficient, robust and scalable processes.
- Independently use PAT and analytical tools and interpret data to gain reaction understanding.
- Share literature and available resources to support relevant precedent for process research.
- Perform experiments and interpret data (calorimetry, TGA, DSC) to safely scale reactions.
- Author development reports and technical packages, and author/review relevant sections in health authority filings (including INDs, NDAs, annual reports, and any other regulatory interactions) and patents.
- Prepare presentation materials and clearly communicate research results to manager, and at internal/external meetings.
- Working cross-functionally with Analytical and Formulations Development colleagues.
- Tech transfer to CMO and scale-up of chemistry, including supporting GMP manufacture.
Requirements
- PhD in organic chemistry with at least 3 years for Senior Scientist and with 0-2 years’ experience for a scientist of relevant hands-on pharmaceutical/biotech industry experience in the field of new drug development.
- Proven track record for solving process chemistry problems, including identification, optimization, and characterization of robust and scalable synthetic routes.
- Firm understanding of mechanistic organic chemistry.
- Working understanding of analytical tools used in process development (DSC, TGA, DVS, HPLC, NMR, KF, PLM, XRPD).
- Able to work as part of a team with strong interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Succinct but thorough communication skills with attention to detail, analytical/critical thinking, and data organization, presentation, and inference.
- Demonstrated passion, curiosity, and enthusiasm in pursuing ideas and solutions despite challenges.
- Demonstrated initiative, ownership, problem identification, problem solving, and strategic thinking.
- Experience writing research reports and detailed reaction procedures.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and efficiently in a collaborative, fast-paced, integrated, multidisciplinary team.
- Consistent demonstrated high performance, above and beyond the minimum expectations and needs.
- Scientific excellence is demonstrated by publications, presentations, and leadership/engagement in the scientific/professional community.
- Awareness and understanding of ICH, GMP, and regulatory guidance that are important to consider in new drug development.
Skills
- PAT
- Calorimetry
- TGA
- DSC
- DVS
- HPLC
- NMR
- KF
- PLM
- XRPD
- ICH
- GMP
Location
- South San Francisco, California
- San Diego, California
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Scientist
- Scientist
Education Level
- PhD in organic chemistry
Salary/Compensations
- $175,000-$200,000
About the Company
- ORIC Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving patients’ lives by Overcoming Resistance In Cancer.
- ORIC’s clinical stage product candidates include (1) ORIC-944, an allosteric inhibitor of the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) via the EED subunit, being developed for prostate cancer, and (2) ORIC-114, a brain penetrant inhibitor that selectively targets EGFR exon 20, HER2 exon 20 and EGFR atypical mutations, being developed across multiple genetically defined cancers.
- Beyond these two product candidates, ORIC® is also developing multiple precision medicines targeting other hallmark cancer resistance mechanisms.
Equal Opportunity
- ORIC Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
- ORIC does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.
