Principal Scientist, Formulation & Drug Product Development
Denali Therapeutics · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- South San Francisco, California, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Principal
- $159K–$207K per year
- 10+ years
Serve as a formulation and drug product process development lead for a growing portfolio of protein biologics, providing technical formulation and drug product expertise across the development lifecycle.
Compensation
Salary Range: $159,000.00 to $207,000.00 . Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience.
Responsibilities
- Independently drive formulation and drug product development activities for large molecule biotherapeutics
- Design and execute formulation development studies to identify clinical and commercial formulation & dosage form, establish shelf life of DS & DP, assess in-use compatibility, and support comparability assessments
- Develop stress comparability strategies to support process changes and scale-up
- Oversee drug product process development activities as well as DP process characterization and process validation activities to support clinical and commercial manufacturing
- Perform biophysical and biochemical characterization of protein therapeutics in the laboratory using chromatography-, capillary-, spectroscopy-based analytical methods
Requirements
- PhD in Chemical Engineering
- PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences
- PhD in Biophysics
- PhD in Analytical Chemistry
- BS or MS with commensurately greater directly relevant experience