PAT Senior Data Scientist
Sanofi
PAT Senior Data Scientist
Sanofi
Global pharma company; vaccines and R&D
Job title: PAT Senior Data Scientist
Location: Waltham, MA
About the Job
As Senior Data Scientist – Process Analytical Technology (PAT) within our Process Modeling – Vaccines R&D Data & Computational Science team, you'll turn real-time process and sensor data into the insights that keep vaccine manufacturing precise, predictable, and ready to scale. Ready to get started?
Join the team protecting half a billion lives every year with next-gen science, mRNA innovation, and AI-driven breakthroughs. In Vaccines, you'll help advance prevention on a global scale - and shape the future of immunization.
Join the engine of Sanofi's mission — where deep immuno-science meets bold, AI-powered research. In R&D, you'll drive breakthroughs that could turn the impossible into possible for millions. In this role, you'll build machine learning and chemometric models that give process development, manufacturing, and analytical teams real-time visibility into vaccine production, spanning mRNA, recombinant protein, and viral vector platforms. You'll work at the intersection of data science and bioprocessing, helping ensure every batch meets the quality that patients depend on.
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
• Develop and deploy predictive models and monitoring tools that support real-time oversight of vaccine development and manufacturing processes.
• Build predictive models and soft sensors for critical process parameters and critical quality attributes using process and analytical data.
• Analyze data from spectroscopic and sensor-based monitoring tools, including Raman, near-infrared, infrared, and UV-visible technologies, across online, in-line, and at-line settings.
• Apply multivariate analysis, machine learning, and statistical techniques to strengthen process understanding, performance, and product quality.
• Partner with process development, manufacturing, analytical sciences, automation, and digital teams to bring these solutions into development and commercial manufacturing settings.
• Support process characterization, scale-up, technology transfer, validation, and ongoing process verification through advanced data analysis.
• Help shape strategy and best practices for real-time process monitoring across mRNA and non-mRNA vaccine platforms.
About You
Basic Qualifications
Education
Experience
Preferred Qualifications
Languages: Fluent English required.
Why Choose Us?
Sanofi US Services and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.
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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.
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US and Puerto Rico Residents Only
Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.
North America Applicants Only
The salary range for this position is:
$100,500.00 - $145,166.66All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.
Sanofi is a global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company that develops, manufactures, and sells prescription medicines, over-the-counter products, and vaccines. Its products span immunology, oncology, rare diseases, and vaccines, addressing unmet medical needs through a strong focus on research and development. Sanofi's core product model relies on large-scale R&D, strategic partnerships, and licensing to bring new therapies to markets, with revenue generated from product sales and collaborations. The company differentiates itself by leveraging its global reach, diverse portfolio, and emphasis on patient-centric solutions, safety, and quality to navigate regulatory environments in developed and emerging markets. The company’s goal is to improve health outcomes and quality of life for people worldwide by delivering innovative treatments and vaccines that meet unmet medical needs.
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