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Associate Stability Research Scientist
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Job Type: Temporary
Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Pay Rate: $55.16 per hour
Estimated Annual Pay: Based on $114,732.80 per year
Education: Bachelor’s Degree required
Job Summary
Smart Gauge Staffing LLC is seeking an Associate Stability Research Scientist to support both scientific research and daily stability program operations. This dual focus role involves contributing to the research and development of plasma derived or recombinant protein products while ensuring the safe handling, monitoring, and documentation of stability samples.
The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining the quality, safety, and compliance of licensed and developmental products within a regulated pharmaceutical environment.
- Provide technical expertise in research and development using separations based analytical techniques including HPLC, CE, and SDS PAGE
- Develop and qualify analytical methods in accordance with ICH guidelines
- Analyze data using Waters Empower Essential and Chromeleon systems
- Enter test data into stability databases and SAP
- Perform visual inspections and vial integrity testing
Maintain daily inventory of products associated with active stability studies
- Coordinate with Packaging teams to obtain batch samples and track additional sample requests
- Manage sample labeling and auditing using Loftware and Intermec printers
- Coordinate delivery of samples to laboratories and work closely with QC Sample Specialists
- Perform daily assessments of stability chambers and freezers
- Review temperature and humidity trends and generate preventative maintenance work orders
Conduct investigations related to temperature excursions or GMP discrepancies
- Ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented and effective
- Review monthly stability pull schedules and test request documentation
- Assist with filing and maintaining stability records
- Maintain compliance with cGMP, GLP, and ICH regulatory requirements
Education and Experience
- Master’s Degree in a scientific field preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific field with one to two years of relevant experience
- Five or more years of relevant experience may qualify for Associate Stability Research Scientist II level
- Experience must be within a regulated pharmaceutical stability program
Laboratory systems including Waters Empower Essential and Chromeleon
- Stability and logistics systems such as ScienTek, SAP, Loftware, DeltaV, LabWatch, and Maximo
- Experience with Intermec printers and temperature monitoring devices preferred
Strong attention to detail and ability to perform basic calculations
- Ability to identify unusual or nonconforming sample characteristics
- Strong communication skills with the ability to interpret complex data
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
Work performed in laboratory and clinical environments
- Potential exposure to biological materials and chemicals
- Moderate lifting between 15 to 30 pounds, up to 35 pounds occasionally
- Prolonged sitting, neck movement, and fine hand manipulation
- Color vision discrimination required
- Near and far vision correctable to standard requirements
Required Skills
Chromatography, LIMS, HPLC, LC, GLP, CE, GMP, ICH
Smart Gauge Staffing LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.
Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants who require assistance during the application or interview process
Inviting Applications for AWS Devops
Location: Kochi
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Range: Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices GMP safety standards
Job Summary
- Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
- Excellent understanding of GitLabs, Terraform and AWS.
- Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, Oracle
- Excellent troubleshooting
- Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
- Expertise in using Maven and Jenkins for the CI/CD DevOps pipeline process
- Hands-on experience with Operating scripting languages such as, Groovy, Helm etc
- Great at working in a team and have excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Experience in the cloud such as AWS and Openshift
- Experience inDevOps toolsfor CI/CD pipeline and all the phases
- Experience in configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt stack, and Puppet, etc.
- Experience in building VM’s and containerization using Kubernetes and Docker etc
- Experience in automation of the tools and the DevOps phases
Senior Scientist QC Stability Data Review
Location: Fully onsite role Boston Massachusetts Relocation assistance is not provided
Job Type: Full Time
Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST First Shift Days
Environmental Conditions: Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices GMP safety standards
Eligibility Requirements: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check including drug screening
Job Summary
This opportunity is available through Smart Gauge Staffing in partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific. In this role, you will contribute to meaningful work that supports the development and delivery of life changing therapies on a global scale. The organization enables customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer through innovative laboratory, digital, and clinical research solutions.
This position supports the Analytical Services organization under a Functional Service Provider model. The selected candidate will work onsite at a pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical company while remaining a full time employee supported through the staffing partner engagement.
Perform technical and quality reviews of internal and external documents including raw data, stability protocols and reports, Certificates of Analysis, stability data reports, risk assessments, sampling plans, and shelf life reports
Bachelor degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Material Science, Immunology, Biology, Molecular Biology, or related laboratory science
- Senior Scientist level experience comparable to four or more years performing relevant job functions
- Or Master degree with experience comparable to two or more years
- Or Doctoral degree
- Equivalent combinations of education, training, and directly related experience may be considered
- Enter and trend stability data in the SLIM system and generate stability timepoint summary reports
- Establish and extend drug substance and drug product shelf lives and generate shelf life reports based on stability data
- Plan, manage, and communicate stability pulls and ensure stability testing occurs within specified testing windows
Proven experience with stability studies and stability documentation including protocols, reports, Certificates of Analysis, risk assessments, sampling plans, and shelf life reports
- Experience reviewing raw data and external documents
- Hands on experience entering, trending, and reviewing stability data in SLIM or similar stability management systems
- Experience establishing drug substance and drug product shelf lives based on stability data
- Ability to plan and manage stability pulls within defined testing windows
- Strong attention to detail and ability to multitask while reviewing large volumes of data
Working Environment
- Ability to communicate and understand information with diverse groups in a clear and professional manner
- Ability to work upright and stationary or standing for typical working hours
- Ability to lift and move objects up to twenty five pounds
- Ability to work in non traditional work environments
- Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency
- Potential exposure to hazardous elements including infectious agents commonly found in laboratory or healthcare environments
- Ability to perform successfully under pressure while managing multiple projects and priorities
Senior Full-Stack Developer (React + Python)
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Range: 5+ years professional software development experience. 3+ years building applications with React (state management with Redux or Context API).
Job Summary
Covalent Solutions (Covalent) is seeking a mission driven, highly motivated and collaborative Senior Full-Stack Developer (React + Python) with expertise in React and Python to build modern, scalable web applications. The ideal candidate will have strong front-end skills in React combined with hands-on experience developing back-end APIs, managing databases, and deploying applications in the cloud. This role requires versatility across the full stack, with the ability to design, develop, and optimize both client-facing and server-side solutions. There will be a strong focus on application design and technology decision-making.
This opportunity is full-time with Covalent and is ON-SITE in Bethesda, Maryland.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include, but are not limited to:
- Develop responsive, user-friendly front-end applications using React and modern UI frameworks.
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs and backend services using Python (Django, Flask, or FastAPI).
- Design and optimize relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cosmos DB, etc.) databases.
- Integrate React front ends with Python APIs and databases to deliver seamless applications.
- Implement secure, scalable, and high-performing application architectures.
- Collaborate with DevOps on CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud hosting (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
- Conduct code reviews, write automated tests, and troubleshoot across the stack.
- Partner with UX/UI designers, QA, and product owners in Agile/Scrum teams.
- This position requires not just expertise in React and Python, but also the ability to critically evaluate and decide on the most effective software products, frameworks, and architectural patterns for long-term project success and scalability.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
Work Experience
- 5+ years professional software development experience.
- 3+ years building applications with React (state management with Redux or Context API).
- Strong experience with Python frameworks (Django, Flask, or FastAPI).
- Proven ability to design, build, and consume RESTful APIs (GraphQL a plus).
- Solid database experience with both SQL and NoSQL systems.
- Experience deploying applications on cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Understanding of security best practices (OAuth, JWT, role-based access control).
- Prior experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Proficiency with HTML5, CSS3, and modern styling frameworks (Tailwind, Material-UI, etc.).
- Experience with unit/integration testing frameworks (Jest, PyTest, etc.).
- Have led the design and implementation of application architecture from the ground up, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and align with business objectives.
- Contributed to and influenced architectural strategy and modernization roadmaps across technology and business leadership.
- Evaluated and selected the most effective tools, frameworks, and services for new projects, justifying technical decisions and performing design reviews for clarity and technical merit.
- Served as a technical mentor and guide for mid-level and junior developers, providing hands-on coding support and reference code.
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