Sr. Scientist/Engineer, Process Development
MannKind Corporation
August 07, 2026
Remote friendly (Danbury, CT)
United States
$97,600 - $146,400 USD yearly
Operations
Position Summary:
Provide advanced scientific and technical leadership in the development, optimization, scale-up, and lifecycle management of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes across the product lifecycle. Operate as a senior individual contributor within process development, applying independence, technical judgment, and subject-matter expertise. Support clinical and commercial manufacturing by ensuring processes are scalable, robust, and compliant, and contribute to cross-functional technical decision-making and continuous improvement.
Essential duties and key job responsibilities and essential functions:
- Lead the design, development, and optimization of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes from late-stage development through commercialization.
- Apply scientific principles, experimental design, and data-driven methods to establish process understanding and improve robustness and capability.
- Independently plan, execute, analyze, and document complex experimental studies for process development/characterization.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for specific unit operations, process technologies, or platform processes.
- Support process scale-up, technology transfer, and process validation (generate technical documentation; hands-on/consultative support).
- Collaborate cross-functionally with manufacturing, engineering, quality, analytical development, regulatory, and external partners.
- Manage equipment maintenance, including calibrations/qualifications.
- Support investigations related to process deviations, manufacturing issues, and continuous improvement.
- Author/review development reports, protocols, technical summaries, and regulatory documentation in compliance with cGMP.
- Contribute to process lifecycle management: continuous improvement, change management, technical risk assessments.
- Provide technical mentorship/coaching to junior scientists and associates.
- Observe all Company Health, Safety, and Environmental guidelines.
Minimum qualifications:
- BS/BA with 6–8 years, MS with 4–6 years, or PhD (or relevant experience) in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related field, with pharmaceutical process development and/or manufacturing support.
- Experience in development and scale-up of drug manufacturing processes.
Preferred qualifications/skills:
- Experience in manufacture, packaging, and kitting of clinical phase drug products.
- Experience with orally inhaled dosage forms.
- Experience with spray drying, wet nano-milling, tangential flow filtration, microfluidization.
- Experience managing second-party resources (clinical packaging vendors; CDMOs).
Pay Range:
- $97,600 - $146,400 per year.
Provide advanced scientific and technical leadership in the development, optimization, scale-up, and lifecycle management of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes across the product lifecycle. Operate as a senior individual contributor within process development, applying independence, technical judgment, and subject-matter expertise. Support clinical and commercial manufacturing by ensuring processes are scalable, robust, and compliant, and contribute to cross-functional technical decision-making and continuous improvement.
Essential duties and key job responsibilities and essential functions:
- Lead the design, development, and optimization of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes from late-stage development through commercialization.
- Apply scientific principles, experimental design, and data-driven methods to establish process understanding and improve robustness and capability.
- Independently plan, execute, analyze, and document complex experimental studies for process development/characterization.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for specific unit operations, process technologies, or platform processes.
- Support process scale-up, technology transfer, and process validation (generate technical documentation; hands-on/consultative support).
- Collaborate cross-functionally with manufacturing, engineering, quality, analytical development, regulatory, and external partners.
- Manage equipment maintenance, including calibrations/qualifications.
- Support investigations related to process deviations, manufacturing issues, and continuous improvement.
- Author/review development reports, protocols, technical summaries, and regulatory documentation in compliance with cGMP.
- Contribute to process lifecycle management: continuous improvement, change management, technical risk assessments.
- Provide technical mentorship/coaching to junior scientists and associates.
- Observe all Company Health, Safety, and Environmental guidelines.
Minimum qualifications:
- BS/BA with 6–8 years, MS with 4–6 years, or PhD (or relevant experience) in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related field, with pharmaceutical process development and/or manufacturing support.
- Experience in development and scale-up of drug manufacturing processes.
Preferred qualifications/skills:
- Experience in manufacture, packaging, and kitting of clinical phase drug products.
- Experience with orally inhaled dosage forms.
- Experience with spray drying, wet nano-milling, tangential flow filtration, microfluidization.
- Experience managing second-party resources (clinical packaging vendors; CDMOs).
Pay Range:
- $97,600 - $146,400 per year.