We're hiring a Principal Scientist in Cell Culture Development to join our team in Melbourne and play a key role in advancing biologics development.
This is a senior technical role where you'll lead upstream process development, provide scientific direction, and help bring high-quality recombinant products from early development through to manufacturing readiness.
You'll work across platforms, collaborate cross-functionally, and contribute to impactful programs that support patient outcomes.
Your Responsibilities: Provide scientific leadership and technical expertise in cell culture process development, optimisation, and scale-up Design and execute upstream development strategies across high-throughput and mid-scale platforms Lead and contribute to experimental planning, execution, and datainterpretation with solid scientific rigour Suppor t process development across the full lifecycle from clone selection through to process characterisation Guide and mentor team members, sharing expertise and building capability Contribute to regulatory documentation and submissions Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable tech transfer and manufacturing readiness Skills Experience:



Postgraduate degree (MSc, PhD, MEng or equivalent) in a relevant field Significant experience in cell culture process development (industry or advanced academic setting) Proven track record working with recombinant protein production or similar systems Comfortable working in cross-functional and multicultural teams Experience with the following is highly regarded: Mammalian cell culture, particularly CHO systems Early- and late-stage process development Media development and metabolic modelling Process optimisation aligned to product quality attributes Bioreactor scale-up and scale-down Technology transfer or implementation of manufacturing processes Why join us?
Work on cutting-edge biologics development Influence key scientific and technical decisions Collaborate with a highly skilled, multidisciplinary team Be part of work that ultimately supports patient impact If you're a scientist who enjoys combining deep technical expertise with leadership and collaboration, we'd love to hear from you.
Applications Close on September 30, ****

📌 Principal Scientist, Cell Culture Development (Victoria)
🏢 Csl Behring
📍 Victoria