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title: 'Process Engineer at BrainChild Bio'
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# Process Engineer at BrainChild Bio

- **Company:** BrainChild Bio
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Compensation:** $105k–$115k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/brainchildbio/28cd3a4a-f957-4fc3-9395-4e942d92f357

## Job description

BrainChild Bio is seeking to hire a Process Engineer to add to our growing team. This role will provide critical support to technology transfer, process development, and manufacturing activities of BrainChild programs.  This will include but not be limited to helping execute successful technology transfers to external CMOs, delivering real time support to manufacturing, including investigational support, in person and remote support to manufacturing, interaction with QA, PD and R&D, and acting as the stakeholder voice of manufacturing operations. The ideal candidate will exhibit a problem-solving mindset, deep curiosity, and an understanding of cell therapy and/or vector manufacturing processes.  We are looking for a candidate that has a passion for learning and will build excitement in others about finding solutions and seeking truth. They will bring experience with GMPs, manufacturing operations, batch records and SOPs, change controls and deviations.  The candidate will preferably bring experience reviewing and interpreting data and be able to summarize key takeaways. They will have a basic understanding and experience with the CMC drug development lifecycle, process risk assessments and Process Control Strategies.  Ideally, they’ve been key members of cross-functional teams and helped drive successful tech transfers and/or process improvement efforts.

Responsibilities:

- Support clinical manufacturing by leading investigations and troubleshooting activities as needed
- Provide on the floor GMP manufacturing support as needed
- Support process development teams as the voice of manufacturing during clinical product development
- Drive technology transfer of manufacturing processes from development to external CMOs as a key member of cross-functional teams
- Summarize data sets to management in order to ensure process changes/drift is understood
- Drive and Support the effort to create established batch records, for both development and GMP Manufacturing
- Develop and use systems for clinical manufacturing data collection and trending
- Support clinical manufacturing by leading investigations, providing input to change controls, and troubleshooting activities as needed
- Support process risk assessments as needed to drive further characterization studies and/or Process Control Strategy documents.

Qualifications:

- 4-5+ years in life sciences supporting process development or manufacturing process improvement and support activities preferably in cell therapy
- Proficiency with life science data analysis and visualization tools and experience communicating technical messages to teams
- Ability to travel approximately 15% of the time to support tech transfer activities and ongoing manufacturing

## About BrainChild Bio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: BrainChild Bio is a clinical-stage biotech company developing CAR-T cell therapies for central nervous system (CNS) tumors, with an initial focus on the childhood cancer DIPG.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, WA, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (launched out of Seattle Children’s, built on Dr. Michael Jensen’s research)
- **Founders**: Dr. Michael Jensen (Founder & Chief Scientific Officer)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Biopharmaceuticals / Cell Therapy / Oncology
- **Target customers**: Pediatric and adult cancer patients, clinical partners, regulatory agencies, healthcare providers
- **Mission**: To develop safe and effective therapies for children with brain cancer — “we must get more cures to kids with cancer” ([brainchildbio.com - Careers](https://brainchildbio.com/careers/))

## Products & Services
- **BCB-276**: Clinical candidate for DIPG (diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma), an incurable childhood brainstem cancer; plan is to proceed directly to a single pivotal registrational trial designed to support a Biologics License Application (BLA) after FDA alignment ([brainchildbio.com - Pipeline](https://brainchildbio.com/pipeline/))
- **CNS CAR-T Platform**: Integrates synthetic technologies with three pillars — multiplexed targeting, potency enhancement, and remote control — to optimize CAR-T therapies for CNS tumors ([brainchildbio.com - About](https://brainchildbio.com/about/))
- **Expanding Pipeline**: Future planned expansion to other pediatric and adult brain tumors, including glioblastoma and brain metastases ([brainchildbio.com - Pipeline](https://brainchildbio.com/pipeline/))

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly available; key milestone is FDA alignment to proceed with a pivotal registrational trial for BCB-276 ([brainchildbio.com - Pipeline](https://brainchildbio.com/pipeline/))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available; company is closely tied to Seattle Children’s and the research legacy of Dr. Michael Jensen ([brainchildbio.com - About](https://brainchildbio.com/about/))
- **Growth Signals**: Clinical advancement to pivotal trial, active hiring across process development, regulatory affairs, and supply chain, and an expanding leadership team ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/brainchildbio), [brainchildbio.com - Team](https://brainchildbio.com/team/))

## Competitive Advantages
- Built on over a decade of translational research, including FDA-authorized INDs covering four CNS CAR-T cell products ([brainchildbio.com - About](https://brainchildbio.com/about/))
- Deep specialty in CNS tumors — a difficult niche where established CAR-T approaches face unique challenges
- Mission-driven “kids first” positioning, leading to distinct patient-centric drug development priorities
- Proprietary platform combining multiplexed targeting, potency enhancement, and remote control technologies ([brainchildbio.com - About](https://brainchildbio.com/about/))

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate BCB-276 through a pivotal registrational trial and toward BLA submission ([brainchildbio.com - Pipeline](https://brainchildbio.com/pipeline/))
- Expand the platform to additional CNS tumors in adults and children
- Build a best-in-class team across immunology, synthetic biology, manufacturing sciences, translational medicine, and clinical development ([brainchildbio.com - Team](https://brainchildbio.com/team/))

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Strong mission and values explicitly labeled “Kids First,” “Inventive,” and “Team” ([brainchildbio.com - Careers](https://brainchildbio.com/careers/))
- **Work Environment**: Offers hybrid and remote roles (e.g., remote Process Engineer; hybrid Scientist roles in Seattle) ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/brainchildbio))
- **Unique Impact**: Rare opportunity to help advance therapies for pediatric brain cancer “that other biotechnology companies have not done” ([brainchildbio.com - Careers](https://brainchildbio.com/careers/))
- **Hiring Transparency**: AI tools may support aspects of the hiring process, but final decisions are made by humans ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/brainchildbio))

## Sources
1. [brainchildbio.com - About Us](https://brainchildbio.com/about/)
2. [brainchildbio.com - Careers](https://brainchildbio.com/careers/)
3. [jobs.lever.co - BrainChild Bio](https://jobs.lever.co/brainchildbio)
4. [brainchildbio.com - Pipeline](https://brainchildbio.com/pipeline/)
5. [brainchildbio.com - Team](https://brainchildbio.com/team/)

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