Moderna's Technical Development organization designs and scales manufacturing processes for mRNA medicines. Co-ops will join high-performing project teams developing new manufacturing platforms to produce mRNA therapeutics and vaccines for clinical trials and commercial licensure.
Requirements
- Strong fundamental scientific and engineering skills for the evaluation of experimental data
- Laboratory skills applicable to bioprocess development and analytical methods
Responsibilities
- Use laboratory, technical and communication skills to generate experimental results, perform data analysis, and document in formal reports including conclusions and recommended next steps.
- Perform process scale-up, support technology transfer and provide manufacturing support at internal Moderna, and external contract manufacturing sites.
- Participate in planning, design, execution, analysis of experiments and formal risk assessments to establish critical process parameters, and overall process control strategies.
- Optimize the impact of formulation and processing conditions on the stability of mRNA drug products and process intermediates.
- Review and share relevant academic literature and establish new collaborations with internal research and manufacturing groups.
- Create scaled-down models, and high throughput experimental setups for unit operations.
- Characterize mRNA and lipid nanoparticles through collaboration with the analytical team.
Other
- Applicants must be available for the entire duration of the co-op.
- Candidates must already hold work authorization in US and be able to maintain that status without the need for future sponsorship.
- This position is site-based, requiring you to be at Moderna’s site full-time.
- Demonstrated ability to work both independently as well as the ability to contribute to high performing teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
