Senior Formulation Scientist — HTS & Tablet Platforms

Integrated Resources, Inc ( IRI ); Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Integrated Resources, Inc (IRI) is seeking a skilled Scientist/ Engineer for a 12-month contract to develop dry and liquid formats and HTS products for drug discovery workflows.

The role spans formulation development, powder processing, plate preparation, analytical testing, moisture control, stability, and packaging, with emphasis on scalable quenching and automation in plate-based workflows.

Qualifications

• PhD with relevant experience, or MS with substantial industrial experience in Biomedical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutics, Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Materials Science, or related field.
• Hands-on experience in at least two areas: dry formulation, tableting, powder processing, biochemical reagent development, automated dispensing, or HTS plate preparation.
• Experience with 24-, 48-, 96-, or 384-well plate workflows, including solid or liquid dispensing, sealing, plate maps, storage, and quality control.
• Solid understanding of powder properties, excipient functionality, solvent compatibility, moisture sensitivity, formulation stability, and packaging compatibility.

Responsibilities

• Develop biochemical products in tablet, mini-tablet, sachet, vial, and HTS plate formats.
• Formulate buffers, salts, sugars, amino acids, cofactors, excipients, stabilizers, stress reagents, quench reagents, and related biochemical materials.
• Optimize powder flow, blend uniformity, compression parameters, tablet weight, hardness, friability, disintegration, dissolution, and reconstitution performance.
• Support dry-plated reagents, liquid formulations, DMSO stocks, formulation-screening matrices, and focused chemical-library formats.

Skills

Dry formulation

Tableting

Powder processing

Biochemical reagent development

Automated dispensing

HTS plate preparation

Education

PhD or MS in Biomedical/Pharmaceutical/ Chemical Eng

Tools

LC-MS

UPLC/HPLC

Karl Fischer

LIMS

Job description

Integrated Resources, Inc (IRI) is seeking a skilled Scientist/ Engineer for a 12-month contract to develop dry and liquid formats and HTS products for drug discovery workflows.

The role spans formulation development, powder processing, plate preparation, analytical testing, moisture control, stability, and packaging, with emphasis on scalable quenching and automation in plate-based workflows.