Job Description
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.
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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.
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Your Responsibilities:
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Provide scientific leadership and technical expertise in cell culture process development, optimisation, and scale-up
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Design and execute upstream development strategies across high-throughput and mid-scale platforms
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Lead and contribute to experimental planning, execution, and datainterpretation with robust scientific rigour
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Support process development across the full lifecycle from clone selection through to process characterisation
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Guide and mentor team members, sharing expertise and building capability
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Contribute to regulatory documentation and submissions
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable tech transfer and manufacturing readiness
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Skills & Experience:
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Postgraduate degree (MSc, PhD, MEng or equivalent) in a relevant field
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Significant experience in cell culture process development (industry or advanced academic setting)
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Proven track record working with recombinant protein production or similar systems
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Comfortable working in cross-functional and multicultural teams
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Experience with the following is highly regarded:
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Mammalian cell culture, particularly CHO systems
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Early- and late-stage process development
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Media development and metabolic modelling
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Process optimisation aligned to product quality attributes
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Bioreactor scale-up and scale-down
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Technology transfer or implementation of manufacturing processes
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Why join us?
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Work on cutting-edge biologics development
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Influence key scientific and technical decisions
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Collaborate with a highly skilled, multidisciplinary team
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Be part of work that ultimately supports patient impact
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If you're a scientist who enjoys combining deep technical expertise with leadership and collaboration, we'd love to hear from you.
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Applications Close on September 30, ****

📌 Principal Scientist, Cell Culture Development (Victoria)
🏢 CSL Vifor
📍 Victoria