GlaxoSmithKline LLC Posted July 30, 2026

Data & Lab Automation Scientist – Drug Product Development

Upper Providence, United States Full time
Data & Digital

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About this opportunity

About the Role

Do you have a background in formulation and drug product development with hands-on lab experience? Are you excited about optimizing experimental workflows through data and automation? We're looking for someone who bridges the lab bench and the digital systems, someone who can understand our processes deeply, identify automation opportunities, and knows how to partner with vendors to bring complex custom solutions to life.

In this role, you will:

Drive lab automation strategy: Scope, design, and implement automated workflows to increase throughput and data quality in drug product studies

Enable vendor partnerships: Scope and manage complex custom automation projects with external vendors, translating scientific needs into technical specifications and ensuring successful implementation

Collaborate across teams: Work with drug development experts, analytics teams, and instrumentation specialists to define requirements for ELN templates, dashboards, and data capture systems that support automated workflows

Streamline data flows: Contribute to automating data and information flows during experimental studies, from instrument data extraction to system integration, storage and visualization, reducing manual entry and improving data integrity

Build organizational capability: Share expertise in lab and data automation best practices and help standardize approaches across groups

Why You?

Basic Qualifications

3+ years of hands-on experience in lab and data automation

Lab automation proficiency: Experience with liquid handling platforms (Hamilton or Tecan) design, scope, and execute automated workflows

Vendor management experience: Track record of working with external vendors on complex custom automation projects, from requirements definition through execution and troubleshooting

Lab experience: Current or recent hands-on laboratory work in a pharmaceutical, biotech, or analytical chemistry environment

Data and lab automation mindset: Comfortable with concepts around data automation, data capture architecture, and dashboarding; understanding of how to translate experimental workflows into structured data systems

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with laboratory autonomous mobile robots, including integration, configuration, orchestration, and troubleshooting.

Experience with data management practices in pharmaceutical drug product development

Proficiency in SQL and one or more programming/analytics languages: Python, JavaScript, R

Experience designing or implementing data visualization dashboards to support decision-making: RShiny, Spotfire, Tableau

Familiarity with data extraction from laboratory instrumentation and integration into centralized data systems

Knowledge of digital lab solutions (ELN best practices, data standards, regulatory considerations in pharma data management)

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Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computational Sciences, Computer Programming, Data Analysis, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Science, Predictive Modeling, Statistical Models

Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Data & Digital
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Upper Providence, United States
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

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We currently track 292 comparable Data & Digital roles across 41 biopharma companies.

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273Currently active
41Companies hiring similar roles
20Countries represented

Salary context

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Peer group range $95,500 – $339,950 (median $198,000)

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