Full Time, Permanent

Principal Scientist /SPS - Process R&D (Ph.D), Late phase NCE API-CDMO

Posted by Sai Life Sciences • Secunderabad, Telangana, India

📍 Secunderabad, Telangana 🕒 February 21, 2026

About the Role

To be responsible for leading a team of 6 to 10 scientists, and timely delivery of projects involving complex chemistry.

  • To manage NCE development projects, involving route scouting, feasibility and screening,

  • Process development / optimisation and scale up for mid to late phase intermediates/APIs

  • Responsible for the safe working of the team in a laboratory environment.

  • • To be precisely aware of the project scope and scope changes.
  • • To guide and supervise a team of scientists, in the following aspects:
  • Designing process research & development approach.
  • Experiment and analysis planning.
  • Generation of all required data.
  • Analytical requirements of the project.
  • Drawing inference from the analytical results.
  • Use of appropriate equipment (PolyBlock, RBF, DJF) during development.
  • Adoption of new technologies to solve problems and accelerate delivery.
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