Job detail for Automation Engineer for Complex Equipment and Computerized Systems

Job Title: Automation Engineer for Complex Equipment & Computerized Systems (GMP Infrastructure - R&D Vaccines)

• Location: Marcy l'Etoile
• Contract Type: Permanent, full-time
• Remote Work: 2 days / week

About the role

As an Automation Engineer for Complex Equipment & Computerized Systems within our R&D GMP Infrastructure team, you will directly participate in providing the GMP facilities and equipment required for the manufacturing of R&D clinical trial batches. Ready to get started?

Join the team that protects half a billion lives every year through next-generation science, mRNA innovation, and AI-driven breakthroughs. In the Vaccines team, you will help advance prevention on a global scale and shape the future of vaccination, while benefiting from opportunities to broaden your experience and sharpen your skills.

About Sanofi

Sanofi is a company that innovates in R&D and leverages AI at scale to improve people's lives and create long-term growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and our innovative pipeline – allows us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we pursue the miracles of science to improve people's lives.

**Key **

• Act as the expert in automation & digitalization to define and maintain functional connections between digital tools and complex bioproduction equipment
• Intervene for emergency maintenance during production and lead routine, preventive, and corrective maintenance of complex equipment (vial and syringe filling lines, freeze-dryers, fermenters)
• Coordinate the connection of equipment via sensors, gateways, and IoT platforms, as well as the construction of data pipelines to cloud platforms
• Maintain GMP Computerized Systems (CS) in an operational validated state (periodic reviews, audit trails, profile management, annual reviews)
• Participate in Change Control and anomaly / Corrective & Preventive Action (CAPA) management processes
• Participate in the validation of new GMP Computerized Systems (drafting specifications, defining validation strategy, data integrity expertise)

What we offer

A fixed salary over 12 months, as well as profit-sharing & incentives based on Sanofi Group results.

Because taking care of our employees is also our mission: 31 days of paid leave + RTT days depending on your status, remote work up to 2 days/week, high-quality health insurance, up to 80% coverage for public transport; maternity leave (18 weeks) and partner leave (14 weeks), Savings Plans & Retirement Plans with employer matching, CSE benefits, internal and international mobility opportunities, a customizable training offer to support you throughout your career, and many other benefits to discover here.

About you

• Experience: Experience in bioproduction equipment automation and management of GMP computerized systems in a GMP-compliant production facility
• Technical and soft skills: Creation & updating of quality documents, Data Integrity and Data Continuum, ability to work in a team and across multiple interfaces with excellent interpersonal skills, proactive and autonomous
• Education: Engineering degree in Industrial Automation/Automation or Bioinformatics/Bioproduction or IT Quality/Validation or related fields
• Languages: French, fluent English

Why choose us?

• Join the forefront of AI research, smart manufacturing, and innovative mRNA platforms that are transforming the future of immunology
• Help protect half a billion people every year, contributing to one of the largest vaccination efforts in the healthcare field
• Gain hands-on experience within state-of-the-art, digital, and AI-driven manufacturing facilities
• Develop your career through access to mentoring, international mobility programs, and growth opportunities
• Our Marcy L'Etoile site, ideally located on the immediate outskirts of Lyon, is the largest global R&D site at the heart of our immunology strategy
• Join a workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the heart of our concerns, with employee resource groups

Always Progress. Discover the Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and enter a new era of science – where your journey can be as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you so that you go further, accelerate your thinking, and achieve what has never been done before. You will help push boundaries, challenge conventions, and design smarter solutions for the communities we serve. Ready to pursue the miracles of science and improve people's lives? Let's pursue progress and discover the extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we believe in equal opportunity, without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or any other criteria protected by law.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

The salary range for this position is: €42 400,00 - €56 533

Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.