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Clinical Trial Associate roles in the U.S. qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in a life sciences, health sciences, or related field. The E-3 has no lottery and no annual cap, making it a reliable path for Australian professionals with a sponsor and a qualifying offer.
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About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Job Description
Trial Surveillance & Analytics (TSA) is a newly formed center of excellence in Data & AI Acceleration, part of AbbVie's Data and Statistical Sciences organization. Our mission is to transform how AbbVie conducts ongoing clinical trial surveillance — integrating trial data, analytics and AI so that study teams and patient safety colleagues see emerging safety and efficacy signals early, and can act on them with confidence. This is work upstream, inside ongoing clinical trials, where insight can still change decisions for the study and for patients.
The Senior Manager, Trial Surveillance & Analytics is a hands-on, full-stack data scientist who takes a surveillance question from intake to a working solution. You will work in a small team that owns a capability end to end — from the data, through the analysis, to the tool that study teams use — and you will own your solutions from problem statement to a working product that people use. The team is AI-native from day one: agentic coding and AI agents are part of how we work, with room to experiment and to scale what works. You will combine depth in one area (such as statistical programming and reporting, data integration, data visualization, data science and machine learning, or data and software engineering) with enough breadth across clinical data, analytics and AI to deliver on your own, with the support of the team. As an early member of a new center of excellence, you will help define how it works, the standards it sets and the capabilities it builds, partnering across Global Patient Safety, therapeutic area clinical development teams, Statistics, Statistical Programming and data engineering across the portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
- Frame surveillance problems with stakeholders before building: understand the decision to be supported, design for adoption, and iterate with users.
- Design and build data pipelines and analysis-ready, integrated data on SDTM, ADaM and integrated databases to support safety and efficacy surveillance.
- Lead blinded, standardized analytics across studies and compounds to detect emerging safety and efficacy signals early.
- Deliver reporting — tables, listings and figures, safety reports and listings — and automate it wherever possible.
- Develop applications, dashboards and self-service tools that study teams and patient safety colleagues use themselves; drive their adoption and measure their use.
- Apply generative and agentic AI across the analysis workflow, build AI agents on the clinical data foundation, and measure the gain in time and quality.
- Integrate clinical trial and real-world data where the science requires it, assessing comparability and data quality first.
- Lead projects and small cross-functional pods; coach and mentor team members. May include indirect supervision of employees and contract staff.
- Represent the team in cross-functional forums and communicate technical concepts and results clearly to non-technical audiences.
- Ensure adherence to applicable regulations, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), ICH guidelines, AbbVie Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and functional quality standards.
Minimum Qualifications:
- MS (with 8+ years of experience) or PhD (with 4+ years of experience) in Statistics, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Machine learning and AI or a highly related field.
- Experience may be in pharmaceutical, biotech, health technology or related industries.
- Strong hands-on programming in R and Python, plus SQL and version control (e.g. Git), with a track record of writing production-quality code for end-to-end analytical pipelines.
- Demonstrated experience applying generative or agentic AI to analytical or programming work, with measurable results.
- Experience working with clinical trial data (e.g. CDISC SDTM/ADaM) and/or real-world data (e.g. EHR, claims, registries).
- A track record of building analytical tools or solutions that were adopted and sustained by their users.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain analytical and technical concepts in plain language and to influence cross-functional partners without direct authority.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience designing and building agentic AI systems (e.g. multi-step agents, tool use, retrieval and evaluation), with a track record of solutions delivered and used in production.
- Experience in clinical development, drug safety, pharmacovigilance, clinical trial monitoring or regulatory evidence generation.
- Knowledge of clinical trial design and of methods for real-world evidence, such as cohort definition, confounding control and external comparators.
- Experience building interactive visualizations and data apps with modern frameworks (e.g. Plotly / Dash, Streamlit, Shiny, React / D3) and deploying on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS).
- Familiarity with SAS.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives; formal business or leadership training is a plus.
- Publications, presentations or community leadership in data science, statistics or AI.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
Company Description
About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Job Description
Trial Surveillance & Analytics (TSA) is a newly formed center of excellence in Data & AI Acceleration, part of AbbVie's Data and Statistical Sciences organization. Our mission is to transform how AbbVie conducts ongoing clinical trial surveillance — integrating trial data, analytics and AI so that study teams and patient safety colleagues see emerging safety and efficacy signals early, and can act on them with confidence. This is work upstream, inside ongoing clinical trials, where insight can still change decisions for the study and for patients.
The Senior Manager, Trial Surveillance & Analytics is a hands-on, full-stack data scientist who takes a surveillance question from intake to a working solution. You will work in a small team that owns a capability end to end — from the data, through the analysis, to the tool that study teams use — and you will own your solutions from problem statement to a working product that people use. The team is AI-native from day one: agentic coding and AI agents are part of how we work, with room to experiment and to scale what works. You will combine depth in one area (such as statistical programming and reporting, data integration, data visualization, data science and machine learning, or data and software engineering) with enough breadth across clinical data, analytics and AI to deliver on your own, with the support of the team. As an early member of a new center of excellence, you will help define how it works, the standards it sets and the capabilities it builds, partnering across Global Patient Safety, therapeutic area clinical development teams, Statistics, Statistical Programming and data engineering across the portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
- Frame surveillance problems with stakeholders before building: understand the decision to be supported, design for adoption, and iterate with users.
- Design and build data pipelines and analysis-ready, integrated data on SDTM, ADaM and integrated databases to support safety and efficacy surveillance.
- Lead blinded, standardized analytics across studies and compounds to detect emerging safety and efficacy signals early.
- Deliver reporting — tables, listings and figures, safety reports and listings — and automate it wherever possible.
- Develop applications, dashboards and self-service tools that study teams and patient safety colleagues use themselves; drive their adoption and measure their use.
- Apply generative and agentic AI across the analysis workflow, build AI agents on the clinical data foundation, and measure the gain in time and quality.
- Integrate clinical trial and real-world data where the science requires it, assessing comparability and data quality first.
- Lead projects and small cross-functional pods; coach and mentor team members. May include indirect supervision of employees and contract staff.
- Represent the team in cross-functional forums and communicate technical concepts and results clearly to non-technical audiences.
- Ensure adherence to applicable regulations, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), ICH guidelines, AbbVie Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and functional quality standards.
Minimum Qualifications:
- MS (with 8+ years of experience) or PhD (with 4+ years of experience) in Statistics, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Machine learning and AI or a highly related field.
- Experience may be in pharmaceutical, biotech, health technology or related industries.
- Strong hands-on programming in R and Python, plus SQL and version control (e.g. Git), with a track record of writing production-quality code for end-to-end analytical pipelines.
- Demonstrated experience applying generative or agentic AI to analytical or programming work, with measurable results.
- Experience working with clinical trial data (e.g. CDISC SDTM/ADaM) and/or real-world data (e.g. EHR, claims, registries).
- A track record of building analytical tools or solutions that were adopted and sustained by their users.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain analytical and technical concepts in plain language and to influence cross-functional partners without direct authority.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience designing and building agentic AI systems (e.g. multi-step agents, tool use, retrieval and evaluation), with a track record of solutions delivered and used in production.
- Experience in clinical development, drug safety, pharmacovigilance, clinical trial monitoring or regulatory evidence generation.
- Knowledge of clinical trial design and of methods for real-world evidence, such as cohort definition, confounding control and external comparators.
- Experience building interactive visualizations and data apps with modern frameworks (e.g. Plotly / Dash, Streamlit, Shiny, React / D3) and deploying on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS).
- Familiarity with SAS.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives; formal business or leadership training is a plus.
- Publications, presentations or community leadership in data science, statistics or AI.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Clinical Trial Associate
Translate your Australian credentials for U.S. employers
CTA roles in the U.S. typically require ICH-GCP certification and familiarity with FDA regulatory frameworks. Map your TGA or sponsor experience to FDA equivalents before interviews so hiring managers can immediately see the overlap.
Target sponsors with active FDA IND portfolios
Pharmaceutical companies, CROs, and academic medical centers running active Investigational New Drug trials are your strongest E-3 visa targets. Their regulatory affairs teams already understand visa sponsorship and expect to file LCAs for clinical staff.
Get your LCA filed before accepting a start date
Your employer must have a certified Labor Condition Application from DOL before you can schedule your consulate appointment. Build at least two to three weeks for DOL processing into your negotiated start date so neither side faces a gap.
Clarify the specialty occupation standard with your hiring manager
Some CTA postings list a degree as preferred rather than required. That wording can disqualify the role under USCIS specialty occupation rules. Confirm the job description explicitly states a bachelor's degree is required before the offer is finalized.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for your LCA and visa paperwork
Once you have a written offer, Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service manages the LCA submission, DS-160, and consulate prep end-to-end. This removes the administrative burden from smaller sponsors who haven't filed E-3s before.
Prepare a protocol-specific work history summary for your consulate interview
Consular officers assess whether your qualifications match the offered CTA role. A one-page summary linking your degree and trial experience to the specific therapeutic area and protocol type in the job description strengthens your nonimmigrant intent case.
E-3 Visa Clinical Trial Associate: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Clinical Trial Associate jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for E-3 visa sponsorship, so you can search Clinical Trial Associate roles without sorting through employers who only hire U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Focusing on CROs, large pharmaceutical companies, and academic medical centers with active clinical trial programs gives you the strongest pool of willing E-3 sponsors.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Clinical Trial Associate role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, provided the job description requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as life sciences, nursing, or health sciences. Generic postings that accept any degree or list education as preferred rather than required can fail the USCIS specialty occupation test, so the offer letter and job description must reflect a degree requirement tied to the role.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Clinical Trial Associate roles?
The E-3 has no lottery, no annual cap, and can be applied for at any time of year, unlike the H-1B visa which requires registration in April and selection by random draw. For Australian CTA professionals, this means a confirmed job offer translates directly into a visa application rather than a lottery gamble. Renewals are also indefinite as long as you maintain qualifying employment.
Can I transfer my E-3 status if I move between clinical trial sponsors in the U.S.?
Yes, but each employer change requires a new LCA certified by DOL and a new visa application or change of status filing. Unlike H-1B portability rules, the E-3 does not allow you to start work with a new sponsor while a petition is pending. You need the new LCA certified and, if applying abroad, a new visa stamp before starting your next role.