About Invaio Sciences

Invaio Sciences, founded by Flagship Pioneering, is a bio platform company accelerating the leap to nature-positive agriculture. The company builds on advances in human health and digital innovation to develop biological technologies for crop health, enabling farmers to both improve yields and use more natural crop health solutions.

About the role

Our Research & Development group is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Formulation Scientist to join our Research Triangle Park team. This role focuses on advancing our proprietary technologies for peptides/proteins in agricultural applications. You will lead efforts to develop, characterize, and optimize formulations and analytics. You will support studies from bench to field and contribute to successful formulations for registrational studies and commercialization. You will work cross-functionally with the bioprocessing team, analytical sciences, development project teams, and others to advance our technologies to solve a diverse set of delivery challenges in agriculture.

What you'll do

• Design and optimize peptide formulations
• Examine encapsulation strategies to improve active ingredient efficiency or shelf life
• Develop and implement assays for evaluating functionality, targeting efficiency, and potency of delivery modalities
• Lead and contribute to analytical formulation characterization and stability studies
• Contribute to a dynamic, exciting culture that embraces teamwork and innovation
• Present scientific findings in cross-functional project team meetings, write protocols and reports, and document results in electronic laboratory notebooks
• Lead teams of scientists in the exploration, proof of concept, and development of novel formulations, supporting production processes, delivery system technologies, and concepts for new and registered active ingredients
• Teach and train scientists in the field of formulation science with hands-on experience
• Collaborate with other functions across the company to deliver maximum success, such as analytical R&D, process development, application technology, biology, agronomy, regulatory, operations, and commercial teams

Qualifications (Requirements)

• PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biomaterials Science and Engineering, or a related discipline, preferably with 7+ years of experience
• Demonstrated competence in the area of formulation technology with a proven track record of product development, preferably in agriculture
• Experience with peptide/protein biological formulations
• Advanced knowledge of encapsulation technologies
• Strong background in developing diverse agricultural formulations
• Experience with Quality by Design (QbD) for product development
• Hands-on experience operating analytical instruments to characterize formulations
• Knowledge and experience with scaling up agricultural formulations
• Experience working with HTP technology and digital tools

Competencies:

• Execution-focused, team-oriented, and highly motivated, with a strong work ethic
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple projects concurrently, and collaborate across disciplines
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, innovative environment
• Excited and motivated by Invaio’s ambitious mission to deliver solutions based in nature
• Ability to persuade/influence others of the advantages of Invaio’s key technologies

Inquiries & Considerations:

Invaio is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to a proactive program of diversity development. Invaio will continue to recruit, hire, train, and promote into all job levels without regard to race, religion, gender, marital status, familial status, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, or veteran status. While we value cooperation with all our business partners, we don’t accept unsolicited resumes from other sources other than directly from a candidate. We reserve the right not to pay any fee for sending an unsolicited offer containing details or resume of a job candidate, even if the relevant candidate is employed by our company.