Top Toxicology Roles Right Now (August 13)

This week’s hiring landscape points to a market that increasingly rewards toxicologists who can connect scientific expertise to broader business, regulatory, and development decisions.

Senior openings emphasize strategic leadership, program ownership, and cross-functional influence, while earlier-career roles increasingly offer pathways into specialized areas such as genetic toxicology, translational toxicology, NAMs, and biocompatibility.

Global Hiring Distribution

• 🇺🇸 United States: 17

• 🌐 US Remote: 2 roles

• 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 1 role

• 🇪🇺 Spain: 1 role

• 🇪🇺 Denmark: 1 role

Key Hiring Trends

• Biotech leadership remains a major hiring signal, with openings spanning senior scientist through VP-level nonclinical safety.

• Specialized toxicology expertise is expanding, particularly in translational toxicology, genetic toxicology, toxicologic pathology, and biocompatibility.

• Product stewardship and chemical compliance continue to create opportunities outside traditional pharma, particularly for toxicologists with regulatory and exposure-science skills.

• NAMs and human-relevant methods are moving deeper into applied toxicology, including government research focused on endocrine disruption screening.

• Laboratory Scientist, Genetic Toxicology – Merck (🇺🇸 PA)

• Sr Scientist, Toxicology – Recruiter-driven (🇺🇸 MA)

• Toxicology Leadership Role – Recruiter-driven (🇺🇸 CA)

• Senior Toxicologist – Regeneron (🇺🇸 MA)

• Associate Director, Translational Toxicology – Wave Life Sciences (🇺🇸 MA)

• Head of Toxicology – Soufflé Therapeutics (🇺🇸 MA)

• VP, NonClinical Safety and Pathobiology – Gilead (🇺🇸 CA)

💡 Signal: Biotech hiring is rewarding toxicologists who can operate beyond individual studies and influence program strategy, translational decision-making, and cross-functional development. At the senior level, emphasize your ability to own a safety strategy—not simply execute toxicology studies.

• GLP Study Director, In Vivo Services – Pacific BioLabs, Inc. (🇺🇸 CA)

• Study Director – Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing North America (🇺🇸 NJ)

• Experienced Toxicopathologist – Scantox (🇪🇺 Denmark)

💡 Signal: CRO opportunities continue to favor scientists with strong study leadership, GLP expertise, and technical depth. For toxicologists interested in building breadth quickly, CRO roles can provide exposure to multiple programs, sponsors, study types, and regulatory expectations.

• Biocompatibility & Toxicology Scientist – Vantive (🇺🇸 MN)

💡 Signal: The continued overlap between toxicology and biocompatibility/product safety creates an important alternative career path for scientists with experience translating hazard data into risk assessments. Toxicologists looking to move beyond pharmaceuticals should consider building fluency in ISO 10993, extractables/leachables, exposure assessment, and medical-device risk management.

• Postdoc, EPA Advancing Human Thyroid NAMs for Endocrine Disruption Screening – US EPA (🇺🇸 NC)

• Air Pollution Specialist – California Air Resources Board (🇺🇸 CA)

💡 Signal: Government hiring highlights two complementary directions: environmental risk and exposure assessment on one side, and human-relevant NAM development on the other. Toxicologists with mechanistic biology skills can increasingly position themselves at the intersection of regulatory science and next-generation testing.

• Senior Veterinary Toxicologist – Procter & Gamble (🇺🇸 OH)

• Toxicologist – ITG Brands (🇺🇸 NC)

• Product Stewardship and Chemical Compliance Manager – HP (🇺🇸 WA)

💡 Signal: Product safety hiring continues to demonstrate that toxicology careers extend well beyond drug development. Product stewardship, chemical compliance, exposure assessment, and regulatory interpretation can provide durable career paths across consumer products and technology companies.

• Toxicologist – Integral Consulting Inc. (🌐 US Remote)

• Principle Toxicologist – Recruiter-driven (🌐 US Remote)

• Principal Regulatory Scientist – Noblis (🇺🇸 VA)

• Scientific Consultant, Carcinogenicity Assessment – Consult Lhasa (🇬🇧 UK)

• Toxicology Business Unit Manager – QbD Group (🇪🇺 Spain)

💡 Signal: Consulting continues to reward toxicologists who can pair technical credibility with regulatory strategy, scientific communication, and client-facing problem solving. Remote opportunities are particularly relevant for experienced toxicologists who have developed a specialized niche and can operate independently.

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Northeastern University (🇺🇸 MA)

💡 Signal: Academic and postdoctoral roles remain an important entry point for developing specialized scientific expertise, but the strongest career positioning comes from connecting research skills to capabilities valued outside academia such as regulatory science, translational research, NAMs, data interpretation, or industry collaboration.

• Leadership is becoming broader than toxicology: Senior roles increasingly require scientists to influence development strategy, regulatory decisions, and organizational priorities.

• Specialization remains valuable, but translatability matters: Genetic toxicology, translational toxicology, toxicologic pathology, biocompatibility, and product safety are all represented, but the strongest candidates can apply their specialty across multiple decision contexts.

• Product stewardship is a legitimate career lane: Opportunities at companies such as P&G, ITG Brands, and HP reinforce the growing need for toxicologists who understand chemical compliance, exposure, product safety, and regulatory requirements.

• NAMs are moving toward implementation: The EPA postdoctoral opportunity is a useful signal that human-relevant methods and mechanistic toxicology are increasingly connected to real regulatory screening questions.

• Consulting remains a strong outlet for experienced toxicologists: Remote and international opportunities emphasize the value of independent judgment, regulatory literacy, scientific writing, and client communication.

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