Scientist Process Engineering

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Job title: Scientist Process Engineering

• Location: Montpellier
• Permanent contract

About the job

As a Scientist within our Process Engineering team, you'll develop and optimize drug substance processes through hands-on laboratory work, supporting the design of robust and scalable manufacturing solutions. Ready to get started?

Our Process Engineering team plays a critical role in transforming promising drug candidates into viable commercial products. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex technical challenges, design innovative process solutions, and ensure seamless technology transfer from lab to manufacturing scale. Your expertise will directly impact our ability to deliver life-changing medicines to patients efficiently and reliably.

About Sanofi :

We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Main responsibilities:

• Design and execute laboratory experiments to support the development of robust and scalable small molecule drug substance (DS) processes
• Focus on optimizing key unit operations such as reactions, crystallizations, filtrations, and drying, ensuring efficiency, reproducibility, and product quality
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate lab-scale findings into scalable solutions for pilot and manufacturing environments
• Contribute to the simulation of chemical processes using modelling tools to predict performance and guide experimental design
• Ensure compliance with safety and quality standards in all laboratory activities
• Prepare technical summaries and contribute to internal reports and presentations

About you

• Experience: 2+ years of relevant experience in process development, chemical engineering, or pharmaceutical manufacturing. Demonstrated experience with laboratory techniques relevant to pharmaceutical process development. Experience with scale-up and technology transfer preferred. Knowledge of GMP requirements and regulatory expectations preferred
• Soft and technical skills: Hands-on experience in laboratory-scale chemical process development. Familiarity with analytical techniques (e.g., HPLC, GC, spectroscopy) and laboratory instrumentation. Familiarity with chemical engineering process modeling tools. Strong team player with good communication and organizational skill. Knowledge of chemometrics or multivariate data analysis
• Language: English, experimented level required. Able to understand and interact in French
• Education: MS or PhD in Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Chemistry, or related scientific discipline

Why choose us?

Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

La fourchette salariale pour ce poste est:€42 400,00 - €56 533Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.