18 Top Biotech Companies Hiring This Fall (2023)

By Chris Frew | September 9, 2023

While the hiring climate in 2023 has been a far change from the boom that we saw up through the early part of 2022, there are still some top biotech companies hiring this fall in Maryland and looking for great talent. Budgets are tighter and the open jobs are fewer, but they are still out there.

“The summer months are always slow for hiring, and this summer was slower than most,” shared Chris Frew, CEO of Workforce Genetics, a leading life sciences recruitment firm in Maryland. “However, we are seeing an uptick in job orders from our clients, and even from several new clients, who just in the past few weeks have announced multiple new positions they need to hire for. This is a good signal for what I hope is a more active hiring season this Fall.”

Proof of this can also be seen by the many employers who signed up for the Biotech Job Fair that BioBuzz pulled together in quick response to the 200 layoffs announced by Emergent BioSolutions last month, most of which coming from the Baltimore CDMO facility. Over 20 employers have registered for the event, showing that there is still a need to hire in this market.

Here are some of those top biotech employers and industry vendors who are hiring in 2023.

A-Bio 

A-BIO is a Maryland-based firm that has been serving the life sciences (GMP facilities and operations) sector since 2014, helping its clients effectively define and meet their goals for capital project execution and operational readiness. They leverage decades of owner’s-side experience to identify the right resources and expertise to support complex  GMP facilities and operations needs from GMP owner’s representatives to technical/operational consulting.

Hiring for:

Engineering and Facilities

Applied Control Engineering, Inc.

ACE is a leader in providing innovative, cost-effective integration solutions to address our customer’s process automation and control system challenges. AC offers a full range of OT services spanning the complete project lifecycle – from front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies, through detailed design, implementation, commissioning/startup, and ongoing system support. AC’s solutions are customized to meet the unique challenges of clients, spanning plant floor automation, MES, cybersecurity, and network design.

Hiring for:

Engineering and Facilities

Astek Diagnostics

Astek Diagnostics, based in Baltimore, Maryland, is on a mission to fight antibiotic resistance with innovative technology. Formed in 2020 to commercialize the Jiddu, A benchtop diagnostic device that can identify bacterial infection in urine and antibiotic sensitivity in one hour. Urinary tract infection is a life-threatening condition that affects more than 1 million patients a year in the United States, and even more patients around the globe and is one of the leading causes of death.

Hiring For:

Research / Development, Process Development and Quality

AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca has two main locations, including a Research and late-stage development campus in Gaithersburg and a manufacturing center in Frederick, AstraZeneca employs over 3,500 employees in Maryland. In fact, the Frederick manufacturing center is the largest biologics manufacturing facility within the company’s global network and portfolio of assets and a worldwide industry leader in cell culture manufacturing. 

Hiring for:

Executive, Research / Development, Manufacturing, Process Development, Quality Engineering / Facilities, Clinical / Medical, Operations, Business Development / Sales and Marketing / Communications roles.

Automated Control Concepts (ACC)

Automated Control Concepts provides high-quality control and information products, services, and solutions to manufacturing and utility companies to help strategically deploy new technology and implement proven technology in the best interests of our customers. ACC can architect, design, build and commission the process control systems. Whether it is an entire facility or a standalone system, their approach is always to build systems that are robust and easy to use. 

Hiring for:

Administration, Manufacturing, Engineering / Facilities, Operations, Business Development / Sales

Avantor

Avantor is a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials industries. From discovery to delivery, our portfolio is used in virtually every stage of the most important research, development and production activities in the industries we serve.

Hiring for:

Administration, Operations, Engineering / Facilities, Operations, Business Development / Sales

CraniUS

CraniUS is a Baltimore-based medical device company that is developing the world’s first smart, refillable, and fully implantable medical device for direct medicine delivery to the brain. As several other companies proceed within the brain-computer interface (BCI) space, CraniUS has focused on leading a new frontier known as the brain-medicine interface (BMI). This creates an expansive new platform in neurological medicines that can be delivered directly to the brain to treat multiple diseases.

Hiring for:

Research / Development, Engineering, Facilities and Operations

CRB

CRB is a leading provider of sustainable engineering, architecture, construction and consulting solutions to the global life sciences and food & beverage industries. With more than 1,500 employees, it provides world-class solutions that drive success and positive change for our clients, our people and our communities. CRB was ranked by ENR as the #2 Top Design Firm in Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, #8 Top Design Firm in Manufacturing, Food + Beverage, and the #36 of Top 100 overall Design-Build Firms. 

Hiring for:

Administration, Engineering and Facilities

Delval Equipment

Delval offers boiler room equipment, service, rental, and support for the Commonwealth of PA, Delaware, Maryland, and parts of the surrounding area. With a location in Sykesville, MD, they offer a complete range of commercial and industrial boilers including firetube, watertube, flextube, and copper-finned tube boilers. With over 65 years of doing business in the Mid-Atlantic Region, Delval has provided over 5000 packaged boilers to their clients…more than any other boiler supplier in this region.

Hiring for:

Manufacturing, Engineering / Facilities and Operations

Kite, a Gilead company 

Kite is a cell therapy company that is dedicated to curing cancer. With an advanced commercial cell therapy production facility in Frederick, Maryland, Kite has rapidly become one of the state’s top biotech employers. Everyone at Kite is grounded by one common goal – curing cancer. Kite’s personalized approach, for their employees and their patients, is what sets them apart from other health and life science companies. Unlike traditional pharmaceutical manufacturing, Kite’s therapies are not created on an assembly line. Instead, their CAR T-cell therapies are developed by reengineering a patient’s own immune cells to fight cancer — one patient at a time. It doesn’t get more personal than that.

for:

Executive, Research / Development, Manufacturing, Engineering Quality, Clinical and Medical

The LaunchPort (and affiliated companies)

The LaunchPort is a combined manufacturing and Medtech acceleration center that allows medical device start-ups and emerging technology developers the ability to co-locate at an experienced, regulated medical device manufacturing center. As part of that residency, startups can tap into core services (e.g. financial operating systems, quality system development, supply chain activities, regulatory submission/compliance support, reimbursement, and revenue model development), while allowing them to focus capital resources on developing critical core competencies.

Hiring for:

Administration, Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering / Facilities and Operations

Meso Scale Diagnostics

Meso Scale Diagnostics, located in Rockville, Maryland, has developed proprietary technology for the measurement of molecules in biological samples. The MULTI ARRAY technology of the MSD platform provides both high sensitivity and multiplex functionality and just like ELISA there are many assay variations that are possible with MSD.

Hiring for:

Executive, Research / Development, Manufacturing, Engineering / Facilities, Quality, Clinical / Medical, Business Development.

Pharmaron

Pharmaron, with locations in Baltimore and Germantown, Maryland, is a premier R&D service provider for the life sciences industry. Founded in 2004, Pharmaron has established a broad spectrum of research, development, and manufacturing service capabilities throughout the entire drug discovery, preclinical, and clinical development process across multiple therapeutic modalities, including small molecules, biologics, and CGT products. 

Hiring for:

Quality, Clinical / Medical, Operations and Marketing / Communications

ProAir, Inc.

Pro-Air has become one of the region’s premier mechanical contractors specializing in fast track, complex, and technical solutions along numerous types of projects including; HVAC, plumbing, process piping, and building controls. They support several industries, from pharmaceutical manufacturing, life sciences, education, data centers, health care, tenant, food service, and hospitality. They provide full 3D BIM capabilities in addition to a 50,0000 sq. ft. fabrication facility, that gives ProAir the ability to accurately, efficiently and quickly react to the fast-paced nature of today’s construction environment. 

Hiring for:

Administration and Operations

REGENXBIO

REGENXBIO is a leading clinical-stage biotechnology company located in Rockville, Maryland that is seeking to improve lives through the curative potential of gene therapy. Their gene therapy product candidates all utilize AAV viral vectors from our proprietary gene delivery platform, which we call our NAV® Technology Platform. In addition to our internal product candidate programs, we also selectively license our NAV® Vectors to other leading biotechnology companies.

Hiring for:

Research / Development, Manufacturing, HR / Recruiting, and  Learning and development.

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) develops high-level, sophisticated instruments including chromatographs, spectrometers, and elemental and surface analysis systems. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) is the American subsidiary of Shimadzu Corporation (Kyoto, Japan). Today, SSI employs experienced technical specialists, and service and sales engineers situated throughout the country to support their customers, in addition to operating a state-of-the-art Customer Training and Education Center. Shimadzu U.S.A. Manufacturing supplies HPLC, GC-MS/MS, LC-MS/MS, and other high-tech products to the U.S. market.

Hiring for:

Administration, Research / Development, Engineering / Facilities, Business Development and Sales

TAI

TAI is an Engineering, Management and Technical Services firm built on 30-plus years of dedication to the success of their clients’ projects; from scope development and conceptual design all the way through to completed construction. They are instrumental in helping their clients in ways that are safer, faster and more profitable in designing buildings, processes, and products. 

Hiring for:

Engineering / Facilities, Business Development / Sales, Marketing and Communications

Workforce Genetics

Workforce Genetics, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is the region’s premier recruiting and talent solutions firm on a mission to help employers address this changing world of work and win the war for talent. The executive and scientific search division provides unparalleled recruiting services to venture-backed and growth-stage biotechnology companies in the mid-Atlantic region. Contact one of our recruiters today if you’d like to learn more or if we can help you with your hiring needs.

Hiring for:

Executive, Research / Development, Manufacturing, Engineering Quality, Clinical / Medical, Business Development.

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