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Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

PROCESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE SCIENTIST

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be a part of the Process Development Drug Substance Technology group at Amgen’s FleX Batch Biologics Manufacturing Facility. The Process Development Associate Scientist will help design and perform experiments at the bench scale that span the end-to-end Drug Substance process, covering cell culture and/or purification operations. In this role, you will apply established platform approaches and utilize problem-solving skills to rapidly solve day-to-day experimental challenges. Additionally, the Process Development Associate Scientist will utilize out-of-the-box thinking to contribute to technology development and will demonstrate the desire to expand and develop expertise in cell culture and/or purification, thereby further contributing to the integrated group. 

• Perform small-scale bioprocess experiments that encompass cell culture and/or purification operations 

• Ensure safety and compliance of process development activities 

• Experimental design and data interpretation, leveraging in-house visualization and analytics tools 

• Contribute within a project team on commercial manufacturing goals such as improving process yield and robustness, and scaling-up processes to manufacturing sites 

• Provide scientific technical support for technology transfer of processes to manufacturing sites 

• Communication of findings through oral presentations and written documentation (technical reports as well as GMP documents to support regulatory filings)

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The well-rounded professional we seek is a strategic problem solver with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree and 1 year of Scientific experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of Scientific experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 years of experience in a Biotech/Pharma Process Development and/or Manufacturing Support role for drug substance manufacturing.  

• Understanding of cell culture processes, influence of raw material attributes, and impact of process deviations to growth and quality attributes.  Harvest and clarification processes used for mammalian cell culture processes.  

• Chromatography, ultrafiltration and normal flow filtration operations experience  

• Chemical engineering principles for the scale up of unit operations from bench scale to commercial scale.  

• Able to apply engineering principles and statistical analysis, including design of experiments, in-order to solve processing issues and evaluate opportunities for process improvements  

• Excellent written and verbal communication  

• Experience developing and managing team training workflows and strategy.  

• Demonstrated ability to work under moderate direction.  

• Able to analyze and interpret data  

• Be a self-starter with the ability to take on several projects at one time.

Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the