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At EyePoint, leadership trusts our employees to get the job done. The patient-centric and award-winning approach we’re taking in business fuels our success for:

• developing therapeutics to improve the lives of patients with serious retinal disease
• advancing best-in-class proprietary drug delivery technologies
• innovative pipeline of sustained delivery products

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EyePoint offers robust total rewards in a science-based entrepreneurial culture that empowers curiosity and innovation to help catapult your career. There’s space for every voice and perspective to be heard in our on-site and remote environments where a variety of strengths and diverse backgrounds are connected.

Eyepoint Pharmaceuticals is seeking a talented formulator to join our Development group in Watertown MA. Our department works closely with Operations and Regulatory affairs department to formulate and manufacture innovative ocular formulations.

Ideal candidate should have a strong background in advanced physical chemistry, the use of polymers in Ocular Delivery. The selected scientist will design and conduct experiments to develop ocular formulations as well as designing and conducting robust analytical experiments for the designed formulations. The qualified candidate will interact with other departments, CMOs, participate in cross functional teams, contribute to the product development plans, and authorship of publications and pertinent sections of regulatory submissions, as needed.

Additionally, the candidate must be a strong team player with excellent communication skills working in a complex cross-functional environment. The candidate must be able to work independently and take initiative by providing input on multiple projects. The candidate must be able to think critically, intellectually curious, and shows resilience and courage to resolve complex formulation and manufacturing problems.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Individual responsibilities

• Support the development of ocular formulations for pre-clinical and clinical use.
• Build expertise and knowledge around ocular formulations drug products and summarize findings in scientific papers and technical reports.
• Generate data for project progression and regulatory filings, conduct optimization and process scale up studies.
• Actively collaborate with the analytical department and other departments to develop and perform testing methods to understand the impact of manufacturing process on the products integrity, quality and stability.
• Scientifically interpret complicated data sets and provide scientifically based recommendations toward successful product and formulation development.
• Present experimental plans and data to senior management and project team.
• Troubleshoot complex experimental and method development
• Contributes substantively to patent and publication preparation.
• Maintain knowledge with up to date scientific literature in the field of ocular drug delivery.
• Transfer of technical knowledge to CMO for scale up and formulation optimization

Qualifications

Primary skills and knowledge required include, but are not limited to the following:

• Understanding of fundamental biopharmaceutical principles for the development of injectable drug products.
• Hands-on experience with analytical and physicochemical characterization techniques, such as HPLC, Microscopy, DSC, TGA, FTIR, PXRD.
• Hands on experience with formulation techniques, processing equipment, and unit operations for laboratory, clinical, and commercial manufacturing scales.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical and engineering principles in the solid dosage form development for both clinical and commercial scales.
• Intermediate applied statistical analysis skills.
• Strong technical writing skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multitask and work on multiple projects concurrently
• Detail-oriented

Preferred Qualifications

• Thorough understanding of polymer chemistry and drug-polymer interaction.
• Experience with a range of dosage forms including solid, and suspension
• Experience with formulation development of class II and III biopharmaceuticals drugs.
• Proven ability to apply the principles of the basic sciences to preformulation and formulation development, using a rational, scientific approach.
• Ability to effectively and collaboratively participate in technical team discussions.
• Leadership experience is a plus.
• GLP, GMP, and GxP experience is a plus.

Level of Education Required:

• Bachelor degree in pharmaceutics or pharmaceutical sciences

Number of Years of Experience in the Function and in the Industry:

• 3-8 years of industry experience.

Envision Your Future

With the exciting energy of a winning culture and an exhilarating pace, we are an ophthalmology company committed to preventing blindness by developing and commercializing innovative therapeutics.

The collective power of our values influences everything we do, and everything we do for you.

• Success begins with our People
• Patients First
• Integrity
• Results-Driven
• Innovation
• Team Focus
• Diversity & Inclusion

EyePoint Pharmaceuticals is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our colleagues is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

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