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Scientist, Safety

Neurocrine Biosciences
August 22, 2026
Remote friendly (San Diego, CA)
United States
Medical Affairs
About the Role
Supports safety surveillance and risk management activities for assigned Neurocrine products through the product lifecycle. Supports aggregate reports, signal management, safety review meetings, investigational product safety support for regulatory filings, and responses to health authorities; maintains relationships with PV business partners. May support case processing with DSPV Operations as needed.

Your Contributions
- Participate in safety signal management to detect, analyze, and investigate safety signals
- Execute risk management plans for assigned products during development and post-approval
- Perform safety data review and support safety evaluations
- Prepare safety input for drug-safety regulatory reports and clinical study documents (e.g., protocols, informed consent forms, investigator brochures, ISS, MedDRA coding of AEs, labeling, CCDS)
- Assist with periodic and ad-hoc safety regulatory submissions and health authority requests (e.g., DSUR, IND Annual Report, PADER, PBRER, PSUR)
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to execute trials and develop clinical research strategy/product development plans
- Support safety surveillance procedures (e.g., SOPs and guidelines)
- Collect responses to safety questions from stakeholders
- Review scientific literature for safety information
- Support clinical trial PV activities (review safety content for key documents)
- Prepare for inspections/audits and manage corrective and preventative actions
- Other duties as assigned

Requirements
- BS/BA in related scientific field or RN + 2+ years pharmacovigilance/clinical or medical research (or equivalent)
- OR MS/MA in related field + some relevant industry experience preferred
- OR PharmD/PA + some experience preferred
- Recognize anomalies in data and identify issues in experiments/processes
- Strong knowledge of one scientific discipline; good knowledge of scientific principles/methods
- Ability to work with laboratory tools; teamwork; strong computer skills
- Good communication, problem-solving, analytical thinking; detail-oriented
- Team player in multidisciplinary environment; self-motivated, able to prioritize
- Knowledge of ICH, US/EU pharmacovigilance requirements; drug safety systems (e.g., ARISg, Argus)
- Knowledge of pharmacovigilance practices, signal evaluation, risk management, aggregate data analysis/synthesis, and periodic aggregate safety reports (e.g., PBRERs, DSURs) and RMPs

Benefits (explicitly stated)
- Annual bonus (target 20% of earned base salary) and eligibility for equity-based long-term incentive; retirement plan w/ company match; paid vacation/holidays/personal days; paid caregiver/parental and medical leave; medical/prescription/dental/vision coverage.

Compensation (explicitly stated)
- Annual base salary: $89,800.00–$123,000.00.

Application instructions
- Apply even if your experience/qualifications don’t exactly match the job description.