Senior Scientist Process Engineer - Pharmaceutical Product Development
AstraZeneca AB · Göteborg · Tills vidare · Deadline 2026-11-02
AstraZeneca is recruiting a **Senior Scientist Process Engineer** within Pharmaceutical Product Development, based at its Gothenburg site. Working within the Process Technology and Engineering Unit, the role leads technical development activities to design, scale, and transfer robust manufacturing processes for late-stage oral and parenteral drug products. The work is **laboratory-based**, combining hands-on experimentation with modelling, simulation, and digital tools to enhance process understanding and guide commercial development. Responsibilities also include collaborating across cross-functional teams, preparing CMC regulatory documentation, and advancing data-driven approaches in pharmaceutical product development. Applicants must hold a **PhD in Chemical Engineering, Applied Physics**, or a related scientific discipline, or an MSc combined with significant industrial experience in pharmaceutical process development. Essential requirements include hands-on laboratory experience, proven CMC process development experience with oral solid dosage forms or parenteral products, proficiency with modelling and simulation technologies, and excellent spoken and written English. Additional assets include experience in commercial tech transfer, continuous processing, GMP and process safety environments, automated manufacturing systems, working with CDMOs, and applying AI-enabled tools.
Are you an experienced process engineer who enjoys being close to the science and generating data that drives critical development decisions? We are looking for a laboratory-based Senior Scientist, Process Engineer to lead technical development activities, shape manufacturing processes, and contribute to the successful delivery of oral and parenteral medicines.
Pharmaceutical Technology and Development (PT&D) is an organisation that turns brilliant science into actual medicines that help millions of people. We work across the entire value chain, designing and delivering active ingredients, formulations and devices for new medicines and providing expert technical support to all AstraZeneca's commercial drug substances and products to ensure we successfully supply medicines to patients.
Global Product Development (GPD) sits within PT&D and is a multidisciplinary organisation that brings together scientific, technical, quality, operational, and support functions to develop and advance drug products throughout the development lifecycle.
Based at AstraZeneca's Gothenburg site, you will join the GPD Process Technology and Engineering Unit and play a key role in developing robust manufacturing processes for oral and parenteral drug products in late-stage development. Working at the interface of science and engineering, you will combine hands-on laboratory experimentation with modelling, simulation and digital approaches to strengthen process understanding and support successful commercial manufacturing.
Accountabilities
Working in a highly collaborative environment, you will partner closely with formulation scientists, engineers, modelling and simulation specialists, and manufacturing experts to solve complex technical challenges. Through your scientific expertise and engineering judgement, you will contribute to developing manufacturing processes that are well understood, controlled, and capable of meeting long-term commercial and patient needs. You will take ownership of technical activities, influence development strategies and help advance the application of digital approaches within drug product development.
Key accountabilities include:
- Lead engineering activities supporting the design, development and optimisation of robust manufacturing processes for oral and parenteral drug products.
- Design, execute and interpret laboratory studies to build process understanding and support drug product development programmes.
- Contribute to cross-functional teams developing, scaling and transferring commercial manufacturing processes for oral solid dosage forms and parenteral products.
- Apply modelling, simulation and digital tools to enhance process understanding, guide experimental strategies and accelerate development activities.
- Drive the adoption and continued development of digital approaches relevant to pharmaceutical process development.
- Establish strong collaborative relationships across Global Product Development, including the Modelling & Simulation team, to maximise the value of data-driven development approaches.
- Independently plan and deliver technical activities to agreed timelines and quality standards, applying scientific expertise and sound engineering judgement to interpret results and adapt development strategies as needed.
- Contribute to scientific and technology networks, maintaining awareness of emerging technologies and new developments relevant to pharmaceutical product development.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- PhD in Chemical Engineering, Applied Physics or a related scientific discipline, or an MSc with significant industrial experience in pharmaceutical process development.
- Hands-on laboratory experience, including experimental design, data generation and interpretation to support process understanding and development.
- Demonstrated experience in pharmaceutical process development within CMC, including the design, development and optimisation of drug product manufacturing processes for oral solid dosage forms and/or parenteral products.
- Strong understanding of CMC regulatory requirements, with experience preparing regulatory documentation to support clinical development and/or marketing applications.
- Experience applying modelling, simulation and digital technologies to support process understanding, development and decision-making.
- Strong scientific problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyse data, interpret results, and make sound technical decisions.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to work effectively in a global, cross-functional environment and build strong collaborative relationships across disciplines.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Experience leading engineering work packages, process development activities or technology transfer projects within pharmaceutical development.
- Experience of commercial process development and technology transfer for new chemical entities.
- Experience of continuous processing in a pharmaceutical environment.
- Knowledge of GMP, Process Safety, Data Integrity and Change Control requirements.
- Experience working with automated manufacturing systems and digitalised process development environments.
- Experience working with CDMOs and outsourced development activities.
- Experience exploring or applying AI-enabled tools within pharmaceutical development.
If you are passionate about process development, scientific problem solving and translating scientific understanding into robust manufacturing processes, we would love to hear from you.
We welcome your application no later than 1 November, 2026.