AbbVie Posted October 13, 2026

Scientist II, Product Quality & Occupational Toxicologist

North Chicago, IL Full-time
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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

Genetic, Environmental, and Occupational Toxicology (GEO Tox) is a diverse team of scientists with the goals of supporting patient, environmental, and employee safety. The candidate will support risk assessments for occupational, environmental, manufacturing, and product regulatory filings. The position will support programs across AbbVie’s therapeutic areas and involve a broad range of modalities across all stages from early discovery throughout development to marketed products.

We are seeking an early career toxicologist to join our team in Development Sciences, Pre-clinical Safety.

Responsibilities:

Critically evaluate literature and toxicology reports/summaries and utilize tools such as read-across and in silico data to generate toxicology risk assessments including extractables and leachables, health-based exposure limits (HBELs) including permitted daily exposure limits (PDEs) and occupational exposure limits (OELs).

Support product quality toxicology risk assessments to support non-conformances and product complaints.

Experience supporting medical devices and combination products under ISO 10993.

Successful collaboration with multi-functional teams to align on safety and compound hazard classifications banding for implementation throughout the company.

Support occupational health (hazard) categorizations and chemical registrations, including Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals GHS/CLP, and Safety Data Sheets (SDS).

Qualifications

Requirements:

Bachelor degree in toxicology, pharmacology, or related science with typically seven years of experience, or Master degree with 5 years of relevant experience

Understand relevant scientific literature and apply theoretical framework to execute tasks/projects in a timely manner

Minimum of 3 years experience in a pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical, GMP/GLP, or other regulatory setting desired

Exceptional collaboration, multi-tasking, and communication skills

Excellent writing skills and attention to detail

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, comfortable with multitasking to meet project deadlines

Desired skills:

Risk assessment authoring experience

Toxicity data mining in relevant databases, internal, and external literature for use in compound risk assessments, classification, and labelling.

Knowledge and/or experience with regulatory guidance, i.e., ISO, ICH, etc.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office and other computer software systems

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 short-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
Not listed
Function
Quality
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
North Chicago, IL
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

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

We currently track 1523 comparable Quality roles across 149 biopharma companies.

1523Comparable roles tracked
1325Currently active
149Companies hiring similar roles
53Countries represented

Salary context

247 of 1523 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

This roleSubject $84,500/yr – $162,000/yr
Lowest disclosed · QA - Stat Sort Specialist · Lilly $18/hr – $35/hr (≈ $37,482–$72,592/yr)
Highest disclosed · VP, Quality Assurance · City Therapeutics $340,000/yr – $360,000/yr
Peer group range $55,037 – $350,000 (median $128,003)

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United States607
Ireland86
France76
Germany76
China67
Belgium52

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Seniority mix

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Manager198
Senior179
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc94
Associate73
Associate Director40
Principal38
Director33
Senior Director28
Executive/VP7

Therapeutic area mix

1 of 1523 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Vaccines & Infectious Disease1

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