Principal Scientist - Cell Culture Development

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. 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. Your Responsibilities: - Provide scientific leadership and technical expertise in cell culture process development, optimisation, and scale-up - Design and execute upstream development strategies across high-throughput and mid-scale platforms - Lead and contribute to experimental planning, execution, and data interpretation with strong scientific rigour - Suppor t process development across the full lifecycle from clone selection through to process characterisation - Guide and mentor team members, sharing expertise and building capability - Contribute to regulatory documentation and submissions - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable tech transfer and manufacturing readiness Skills...