Safety Scientist

argenx

Safety Scientist responsible for ongoing safety surveillance of investigational and marketed products. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely evaluation and compliance with safety regulations.

Posted 7/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $164,000 - $225,500 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in pharmacovigilance and safety risk management, with a strong focus on data analysis, signal detection, and benefit-risk assessment. Proficient in leveraging analytics tools and methodologies to enhance safety surveillance and decision-making processes.

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Pharmacovigilance ExperienceSignal Detection AnalyticsData Analysis and InterpretationGenAI Tool UtilizationMedical Coding and Review

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Hard Skills

Data AnalysisSignal DetectionBenefit-Risk AssessmentMedical CodingStatistical AnalysisEpidemiologySafety Data ReviewWorkflow DesignSafety GovernanceSafety Report Drafting

Soft Skills

Effective CommunicationCollaborationInfluencing SkillsCritical ThinkingProblem Solving

Tools & Technologies

GenAIAnalytics ToolsSafety DatabasesData Visualization ToolsAutomated Safety-Surveillance Workflows

Industry Keywords

PharmacovigilanceSafety Risk ManagementClinical TrialsPost-Marketing SurveillanceMedDRAData Acquisition StrategyQuality and Regulatory CompliancePatient Treatment PathwaysSafety Signal ManagementReal-World Safety Data

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Conduct continuous review and analysis of aggregate safety data from clinical trials, post-marketing individual case safety reports (ICSRs), literature, registries, and external databases.
Identify data, analytical, or process improvements that increase the likelihood of detecting a signal or decrease the time to signal detection.
Leverage data, analytics, visualization, and AI-supported outputs to enhance signal detection, aggregate safety review, and benefit–risk assessment.
Critically review and interpret outputs from safety databases, analytics, and AI-enabled tools, applying appropriate scientific judgment and awareness of data limitations, bias, and confounding.
Contribute to the design, testing, and continuous improvement of data-driven and automated safety-surveillance workflows, in alignment with quality, validation, and regulatory requirements.
In conjunction with safety physician team members, identify opportunities to increase knowledge of patient treatment, drugs and interactions, and treatment pathways that drive actions and decisions to ensure the safe use of argenx medicines.
Perform medical coding checks, case series reviews, and standardize MedDRA search strategies.
Define data acquisition strategy, methodology, and approach for safety evaluations.
Assist in the assessment and management of medical safety data, and in the development and execution of safety signal and benefit–risk management strategies.
Contribute and perform analysis and participate actively in safety governance meetings.
Lead and participate in the planning, preparation, drafting and review of periodic safety reports.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Master’s or doctoral degree in pharmacy, nursing, healthcare or other life sciences or technical fields
Minimum of 5-7 years of pharmacovigilance/safety risk management experience
Experience working with quantitative or real-world safety data and, ideally, with signal-detection or benefit–risk analytics; grounding in statistics or epidemiology is a plus.
Experience using GenAI or analytics tools to support drafting of safety documents and data exploration
Familiarity with structured, reproducible, and traceable analysis workflows supporting transparent and auditable safety analyses is a plus.
Knowledge of pharmacovigilance as applies to safety signal management, safety data review in clinical and post-marketing settings
Ability to assemble, analyze and disseminate knowledge gathered from disparate data sources to drive benefit-risk decision making
Ability to communicate complex issues effectively
Ability to influence and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams
Fluency in written and spoken English.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive benefits package
Retirement savings plans
Health benefits