What You'll Do

• Design oral solid-dose formulations (capsules and tablets) from active properties up - excipient selection, diluents, binders, disintegrants, flow agents, and lubricants matched to each compound's solubility, stability, and dosing profile
• Design sterile injectable formulations for our peptide pipeline - lyophile design, bulking agents, cryoprotectants, vial fill/finish at small scale, reconstitution protocols, and container-closure compatibility. Hands-on with EU GMP Annex 1 (sterile manufacturing) and applicable AMG/AMWHV requirements
• Own encapsulation, blending, and aseptic processing end to end: powder characterization, blend uniformity, content uniformity, capsule fill weight control, scale-up from bench to production batches, and sterility assurance for the injectable side
• Solve hard actives. Bromantane and modafinil bring oral-side challenges - low aqueous solubility, poor flow, dose accuracy at small fill weights. Peptides like BPC-157, GLP-1 analogs, and GHK-Cu bring injectable-side challenges - stability across the lyophile/reconstitution cycle, copper-complex integrity, peptide aggregation. You develop the techniques that make all of them reproducible
• Build and run the analytical backbone: dissolution testing, assay/potency, content and weight uniformity, sterility (Ph. Eur. 2.6.1), endotoxin (Ph. Eur. 2.6.14), and stability programs (ICH Q1A - accelerated and long-term) to establish shelf life
• Write documentation that holds up: master formulation records, batch records, specifications, and SOPs. Define what "in spec" means and enforce it. Clean data trails or it didn't happen
• Partner with sourcing and QC on raw-material specs, incoming API characterization (identity, purity by HPLC, particle size), and supplier qualification. Build a qualified supplier network. Continuously improve - reduce variability, improve stability, lower cost-per-dose without compromising quality

Who You Are

• Defends decisions with data. You'd rather run the test than guess. When asked why you chose X over Y, you have a data-grounded answer
• High bar on accuracy and sterility. It's people's health. Dose accuracy, reproducibility, and sterility are non-negotiable - especially on injectables
• Expert in the room alone. You work well as the sole expert on day one. No team around you for the first year, and that doesn't slow you down
• Engineers around complexity. You see the regulatory complexity of the compound classes we work with clearly, and you engineer around it rather than pretending it isn't there

Required

• Approbation als Apotheker/in (German pharmacist license), or an EU-recognized pharmacy qualification with a clear path to German licensure. Alternatively: a degree in pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical sciences, or industrial pharmacy (MSc/PhD) with equivalent hands-on formulation depth
• 5+ years of hands-on formulation experience in pharma, nutraceutical, compounding, or contract manufacturing - covering oral solid dose and at least one of: sterile injectables, topicals
• Deep working knowledge of excipient functionality and compatibility, and of encapsulation/tableting unit operations
• Practical command of dissolution, content uniformity, and stability study design and interpretation
• Experience formulating poorly-soluble or low-dose actives
• Working command of EU GMP (EudraLex Vol. 4), Annex 1 (sterile manufacturing), and the Apothekenbetriebsordnung (ApBetrO) or equivalent manufacturing-pharmacy framework
• Rigor with documentation: batch records, specs, SOPs, and a clean data trail

Strongly Preferred

• Sterile injectable / lyophilization experience - peptide formulations specifically
• Background in a German Herstellungsapotheke, hospital pharmacy compounding unit, or EU-licensed contract manufacturer
• Experience formulating GLP-1 analogs (semaglutide, tirzepatide) or other peptide manufacturing under a quality-grade framework
• Familiarity with cognitive/performance compounds, or with the broader peptide / longevity therapeutic landscape
• Hands-on with HPLC, dissolution apparatus, particle sizing, Karl Fischer titration
• Comfort owning scale-up from R&D batches to production
• Working proficiency in German (regulatory and documentation context) and English (team working language)

What We Offer

• A senior IC seat building the formulation function from scratch at a company at the intersection of biotech, blockchain, and AI
• Pre-approved capex - you spec the equipment: lyophilizer, capsule filler, balance suite, HPLC, dissolution apparatus, Class II BSC
• The team you need, once you've proven the foundation