Principal Engineer I/II, Combination Product Development & Drug Delivery

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

We are seeking a highly experienced engineer to play a key, cross-functional role in leading and coordinating the ideation, assessment, and development of novel drug delivery technologies as part of AbbVie’s Combination Products team. This role will primarily support the AbbVie neurotoxins portfolio. The ideal candidate will have strong communication, leadership and influencing skills to support engagement with internal and external teams in developing an exciting new generation of groundbreaking delivery technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Leads Early-Stage Combination Product Development (CPD) technologies programs to support the AbbVie pipeline. Drives development and optimization of future delivery technologies according to pipeline needs, starting from identifying unmet needs through to design concept and validation. A key aspect of the role is to ensure high-quality science, technology, and deliverables while ensuring compliance with global regulatory and quality requirements to support development and lifecycle management of AbbVie drug delivery systems.
• Operates with a high degree of autonomy to lead and conduct research and development activities to invent/improve novel drug delivery systems, with direct input to strategic decision-making. Critically evaluates delivery system capabilities and contributes to CMC strategies aligned with corporate business objectives. Decision-making will often require assessment and integration of physical chemical properties, formulation science, engineering, analytical, and device technical information in conjunction with the project strategy, with full consideration of regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Applies an in-depth understanding of relevant scientific, engineering principles and business knowledge to design and support solutions across multiple initiatives including:
  • Execution of rapid development cycles. Applies principles of Innovation Engineering and Product Innovation to lead and support AbbVie Internal Innovation teams.
  • Manages and improves a curated portfolio of cross-functional technical problems/needs and relevant internal and external approaches positioned to address these.
  • Thoroughly documents and communicates results through authorship of technical memos, reports and presentations. Authors Records of Invention and documentation to build AbbVie’s IP portfolio, and supports Legal team in negotiating partnership agreements.
• Drives engagement between external partners and AbbVie internal talent to leverage expertise for maximum patient benefit. An important aspect of this role is to promote an internal culture of innovation, including application of Innovation Engineering formalisms and leading structured ideation sessions, and generally to promote scientific and entrepreneurial thinking, encourage creativity and manage quality and results with respect to science, time, budget and resources.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory, health, safety and environmental requirements. Stays abreast of developments and industry practice in the global technical, regulatory and compliance arenas.

Job level will be commensurate with experience.

• Education and work history requirements minimally include: Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering, or related business discipline with 16 years of related work; Master’s degree science or engineering or related business discipline or PharmD with 14 years of related work; PhD in science, engineering, or related business discipline with 8 years of related work experience.
• Facility with relevant computer programs including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Teams, ideally with some demonstrated facility with coding and/or AI platforms such as ChatGPT
• Ability to work with sketches and/or CAD representations of early prototypes and capacity for spatial visualization is important in this role
• Excellent English language written and verbal communication
• Strong whiteboard (or digital equivalent) skills and ability to facilitate and document group discussions, and/or enthusiasm to develop these skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a diverse team setting
• Demonstrated command of relevant scientific principles and analytical skills, with particular emphasis on localized delivery such as intradermal routes of administration
• A strong sense of urgency and ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a highly dynamic and fast-paced environment
• A desire and capacity to learn, drive continuous improvement, and develop novel solutions to problems
• Willingness to be based from AbbVie's Irvine offices minimally 3 days a week
• Ability to travel 5-10% of the time

Join our team and contribute to groundbreaking medical device development in support of AbbVie’s diversified pipeline. Apply now to be part of our mission to advance science and improve patient lives!

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• 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.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs. 

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