Senior Associate

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

Youve worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? At Amgen, our shared missionto serve patientsdrives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the worlds leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.

Senior Associate

Live

What you will do

Lets do this. Lets change the world.

The Pre-Pivotal Drug Substance Technologies organization at Amgen develops, characterizes, and supports clinical drug substance manufacturing processes for all early-stage programs in the Amgen portfolio.

This lab-based position is located at our Thousand Oaks, CA site. The successful candidate will be responsible for support of the development, characterization, scale-up and support of upstream and downstream purification processes to enable clinical advancement of Amgen programs.

This role is in a coordinated bioprocess development group in which cell culture and purification scientists work together to advance Amgens rich, exciting and dynamic pipeline. With Amgens biology first approach, the position provides the outstanding opportunity to work on multiple modalities including antibodies, BiTEs, bispecific molecules, and siRNA therapeutics.

• Craft and execute experiments at the bench scale, spanning the end-to-end drug substance process, within cell culture and purification operations.

• Apply established platform approaches and utilize problem-solving skills to rapidly tackle day-to-day experimental challenges. Additionally, the candidate will utilize out-of-the-box thinking to contribute to technology development.

• Expand and develop skills within purification development, thereby further contributing to the coordinated group.

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our outstanding contributions to serve patients.

Basic Qualifications:

• Masters degree OR

• Bachelors degree with two years of scientific experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Life Sciences, or other relevant sciences with a proven record of excellence.

• Ability to identify, develop and implement solutions to practical problems through application of fundamental scientific and engineering principles, preferably in a process development environment.

• Basic understanding of cell culture and or purification techniques such as aseptic technique, , bioreactor production, protein chromatography, TFF, filtration, etc; hands-on experience with cell culture or purification operations

• Prior experience with data analytical tools (Excel, Spotfire, etc.) is preferred. Experience with statistical analysis and programming in JMP, R, and/or Python environment

• Motivated self-starter with excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.

• Teammate with the ability to successfully work within a diverse team in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.

• Familiarity with design of experiments and statistical analysis of data desirable.

• Working on cross-functional process development teams, including research, manufacturing, engineering support groups, etc.

Thrive

Some of the vast rewards of working here

As we work to develop treatments that look after others, we also work to care for our teammates professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Full support and career-development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise, and improve your potential along your career journey

• A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act

• Generous Total Rewards Plancomprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefitswith compensation and benefits rated above 4 stars (out of 5) on Glassdoor

Apply now for a career that defies imagination

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If you're seeking a career where you can truly make a difference in the lives of others, a career where you can work at the absolute forefront of biotechnology with the top minds in the field, you'll find it at Amgen.

Amgen, a biotechnology pioneer, discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. Our medicines have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses.

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other but compete intensely to win. Together, we live the Amgen values as we continue advancing science to serve patients.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Amgen requires all staff in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada to be vaccinated from COVID 19 as a condition of employment. In accordance with applicable law, Amgen will provide reasonable accommodations to staff members who qualify on the basis of a medical reason or a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance. Such accommodation may not pose an undue hardship to Amgen, its operations, or its staff.