Pharma & Biotech Jobs Weekly Roundup - Jan 5, 2025
Here we'll cover the new job postings from Dec 29, 2024 through Jan 5, 2025. You can find the most current job postings on our job board, browse all weekly newsletters, or read additional analysis on our blog.
Last Week's Highlights
- 29 new roles from 9 companies
- 2 remote positions (6.9% of new roles)
- 29 roles with salary data
- Roles spread across 23 unique locations
The top five locations included the Boston Metro area (5 jobs), San Diego (3 jobs), and two each for Princeton NJ, Pearl River, NY, and Irving, TX.
Technical Roles
The week showed strong demand for software talent, with Abbott posting multiple senior positions including a Staff Software Engineer (Remote) and Database Architect role, both offering ranges up to $250k. Abbott is also seeking a Sr. Staff AI/Machine Learning Engineer ($125,700 - $251,500) in San Diego.
Scientific Research
AstraZeneca appears to be expanding their cell therapy team with multiple positions in Santa Monica, including both Senior and Associate Principal Scientist roles ($108k-$193k range). For early-career scientists, Pfizer has an interesting Associate Scientist position in their Vaccines group focusing on neutralization assays ($54,700 - $91,100).
Highest Compensation
This week's top-compensated role is a Remote Oncologic Pathologist at Caris Life Sciences ($310,000 - $350,000), followed by director-level positions at Novartis with ranges exceeding $200k.
Early Career Opportunities
For those starting their careers, Illumina is offering an Engineer 1 - Development role ($67,000 - $100,600) in San Diego, and Abbott has entry-level clinical trial positions with competitive hourly rates.
Last Week's Salary Data
- Highest paid role (based on the lower bound of the salary range) Oncologic Pathologist at Caris Life Sciences ($310,000 - $350,000)
- Average listed salary: $119,604
- 18 roles (62%) include salary data
To better understand industry-wide trends, we broadly group roles into one of seven categories.
Most positions had reasonably well aligned salary ranges. The one position in the Medical Practice category from Caris Life Sciences is listed as having the highest salary range.
That’s all for this week. Check our blog and jobs page for more updates!
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