2025 PDS&T High Throughput Analytical & Cell Culture Development Co-Op (June - December)

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Envision working with energetic colleagues and inspirational leaders, all while gaining world-class experience in one of the most dynamic organizations in the pharmaceutical industry. This is a reality for AbbVie’s Co-Ops.

The Product Development, Science & Technology (PDS&T) organization within AbbVie Operations leads the optimization, validation, implementation, continuous improvement, and global technical support for therapeutic proteins. The PDS&T Co-Op program provides students with robust projects based on business need. Students will do meaningful work that has a real impact on our business and patients worldwide.

BioProcess Development: The department’s mission is to design, deliver and support the biologics manufacturing processes for AbbVie’s pipeline and partnered products through clinical development and commercial life cycle with quality, speed, and manufacturing excellence. This is achieved through a focus on targeted product quality, CMC acceleration, people development, and efficient workflows. Key groups include: Cell line development, Cell culture process development, Purification process development, Scale-up lab, and Analytical development. We are seeking an outstanding co-op graduate student to join our cell culture development and analytical development teams. This role will be at the intersection of cell-based assays, analytical assays, robotics (Hamilton and Biomek automation systems), and data analytics. Your contributions will help us shape the future of bioprocess development for the manufacturing of complex biologics.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Executes experiments in bioprocess development, including high throughput miniaturized cell culture, cell-based assays and analytical assays with supervision.
• Performs basic data acquisition and analysis in a timely manner. Assists in experimental designs and data interpretation.
• Documents work appropriately in lab notebooks and technical memos; contributes to writing technical reports
• Maintains lab equipment and optimizes lab operations for efficient use of time and resources.
• Troubleshoots equipment and experimental problems.
• Assists in continuous improvement activities.

Minimum Qualifications 

• Currently enrolled in university, pursuing a PhD in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Biosciences/Bioengineering or other related field.
• Must be enrolled in university for at least one semester following the co-op.
• Expected graduation date between December 2025 – July 2026.
• Must be able to commit to a 6-month program at AbbVie Bioresearch Center (ABC) in Worcester, MA (June / July - December).  
• Knowledge of biology/biochemistry, cell metabolism and protein characterization as applied in CHO cell culture development.
• Proficient in aseptic techniques, including thaw, passaging and banking of mammalian cell lines in a biosafety cabinet.
• Deep understanding on and prior hands-on experience with the development of absorbance, fluorescence and luminescence assays for cell characterization.

• Theoretical and practical knowledge to carry out method development and qualification. 

• Experience in separation-based assays including but not limited to UPLC/HPLC based methods, capillary electrophoresis (CE), and imaged capillary isoelectric focusing (icIEF) 

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent problem-solving, written, and verbal skills
• Exceptional interpersonal, leadership and project management skills
• Proven track record of teamwork, adaptability, innovation, initiative, and integrity
• Participate in programming and execution of new Hamilton automation methods to expand throughput and capacity.
• Effectively collaborate with cross functional teams to help develop innovative robust automation solutions for evolving workflows.
• Ability to operate and execute high throughput and high complexity automation workflows.
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve difficult problems with laboratory robots and instrumentation using critical thinking skills.
• Ability to execute, troubleshoot, and interpret complex experimental data to determine next steps.
• Working knowledge of programming and scripting languages: Visual Basic, C/C++, SQL, Python, VBA, VBScrypt, Batch files.
• Familiarity with data science programming tools such as Anaconda Python, Pandas, Numpy, SciPy, matplotlib, seaborn, scikit-learn, tensorflow.

Benefits and Amenities

• Competitive pay
• Relocation support for eligible students

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

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