AbbVie Posted July 29, 2026

Senior Clinical Pharmacologist (Oncology)

San Francisco, CA Full-time
Clinical Development Oncology Senior

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About this opportunity

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at  www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on  LinkedIn,   Facebook ,  Instagram ,  X  and  YouTube.

Job Description

Conceive and execute novel scientific research or development in Clinical Pharmacology that achieves projects and Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics (CPPM) goals. Generate new PK/PD proposals and lead those efforts. Investigate, identify, develop, and optimize new methods and techniques in PK/PD field. Act as a lead PK scientist in his/her area of expertise and critically evaluate relevant Clinical Pharmacology, PK/PD and regulatory advances and integrate this knowledge into research or development programs.

Responsibilities

Contribute to clinical development by supporting Phase 1-4 studies including study design, and clinical pharmacology strategy.

Author regulatory documents including protocols, study reports, population PK reports, exposure-response analyses reports, relevant section of investigator brochures, common technical documents, white papers, and other similar documents.

Conduct data analyses including non-compartmental analyses, modeling and simulation, literature data analyses.

Participate and present at various departmental and cross functional teams such as study teams, clinical pharmacology and biopharmaceutics, clinical strategy team, Clinical Pharmacology leadership team, Journal club.

Collaborate with scientific support from other Clinical Pharmacology functional groups to provide a unified clinical pharmacology position to clinical, CMC and regulatory teams.

Author scientific publications and present at scientific conferences.

Qualifications

PhD with 0 years of experience, or Pharm D with 2+ years of experience in a relevant field, Master’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 8+ years of experience, Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 10+ years of experience; (*relevant field includes experience with PK, PBPK, PK-PD, Pharmacometrics or systems pharmacology, Drug metabolism/Transporters)

Excellent interpersonal skills

Ability to interact externally and internally and perform in a team setting

Demonstrates scientific acumen and has technical skills to perform the role

Key Leadership Competencies:

• Persistent and resilient finds the way to move good ideas forward

• Uses mistakes, failure and reflection as vehicles for learning and improvement

• Delivers business results while also positioning AbbVie for long-term success

• Connects unrelated concepts, generates original or unique ideas

• Influences colleagues to achieve cross-functional alignment

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.​

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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Job details

Seniority
Senior
Function
Clinical Development
Therapeutic area
Oncology
Location
San Francisco, CA
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Clinical Development role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 186 comparable Senior Clinical Development roles across 34 biopharma companies.

186Comparable roles tracked
161Currently active
34Companies hiring similar roles
23Countries represented

Salary context

40 of 186 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject $109,500/yr – $208,500/yr
Highest disclosed · Senior Principal Scientist, Clinical Research, Immunology · Merck $282,200/yr – $444,200/yr
Peer group range $90,199 – $363,200 (median $223,673)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 186 comparable roles

United States65
India55
Germany8
China7
Australia5
Poland5

+ 17 more countries

Seniority mix

186 of 186 peers have a known seniority level

Senior90
Associate Director73
Principal23

Therapeutic area mix

20 of 186 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Immunology7
Oncology5
Dermatology & Aesthetics2
Neuroscience2
Cardiovascular / CVRM2
Ophthalmology1
Respiratory1

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90%similar
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How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

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90%
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Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.