Walk-in || Research And Development Officer

Role

If you mean R&D roles and responsibilities in Viruj Pharma, particularly for an API/process R&D position, the work generally includes:

R&D Roles & Responsibilities

• Process development: Develop and optimize chemical processes for APIs and pharmaceutical intermediates.
• Literature/patent review: Study scientific literature and patents to identify suitable synthetic routes and avoid process/IP issues.
• Route scouting: Evaluate different synthetic routes based on yield, cost, safety, scalability, and impurity profile.
• Laboratory experiments: Plan and execute reactions at laboratory scale and record experimental observations.
• Process optimization: Optimize parameters such as temperature, reaction time, solvent, pH, reagent quantity, and work-up conditions.
• Analytical coordination: Use or coordinate analytical testing such as HPLC, GC, LC-MS, NMR, and IR to identify and quantify impurities and assess product quality.
• Impurity control: Investigate unknown/known impurities and develop strategies to control them.
• Scale-up: Transfer optimized laboratory processes to kilo/pilot scale and support manufacturing during scale-up.
• Troubleshooting: Investigate problems such as low yield, impurity formation, incomplete reactions, or crystallization issues.
• Documentation: Maintain laboratory notebooks, experimental reports, batch records, process-development reports, and other R&D documentation.
• Safety and compliance: Follow laboratory safety procedures, GMP principles, chemical handling requirements, and company SOPs.
• Cross-functional work: Coordinate with Analytical, QA, QC, Production, Engineering, and Regulatory teams.

A good interview answer

If the interviewer asks What are the responsibilities of an R&D scientist in pharma?”, you can say:

“An R&D scientist is responsible for developing and optimizing chemical processes for APIs and intermediates. The role involves route scouting, literature and patent review, conducting laboratory experiments, optimizing reaction parameters, controlling impurities, analytical data interpretation, and supporting scale-up from laboratory to plant scale. Proper documentation, safety, GMP compliance, and coordination with QC, QA and production teams are also important responsibilities.& responsibilities

Preferred candidate profile