Senior Principal Scientist

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Job Description

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.

Senior Principal Scientist

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! We are seeking an experienced toxicologist in the Product Stewardship group within our Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability (EHSS) organization.  This position has a broad reach and supports:

•   bringing new drugs to market, and

•   ensuring patient and staff safety

In this role you will mature core toxicology programs to manage patient safety and EHSS risks of Amgen products, including those from drugs, manufacturing materials, primary containers, and drug-delivery device combination products, as they advance from development to commercialization, and post-approval. Primary role includes performing CMC/Quality toxicology assessments and supporting Occupational toxicology.  Responsibilities include:

• Prepare toxicological assessments of leachable and extractables testing data as they relate to single-use manufacturing, primary drug containers, delivery devices and drug-device combination products.

• Support device organization with expertise on biocompatibility evaluations (ISO 10993-1) and more specifically on leachable substances (ISO 10993-17) for medical devices.

• Prepare and/or manage toxicology assessments of process reagents and excipients used in Amgen drug development processes and formulations.

• Prepare product quality toxicology assessments to support non-conformances and product complaints.

• Conduct or assist with patient and/or worker safety risk assessments.

• Classify drug candidates into Occupational Exposure Bands (OEBs) for worker safety and categorize hazards according to the Globally Harmonized Standard (GHS) for Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) and labeling to support worker safety.

• Derive Occupational Exposure Limits (OELs) for drug candidates and documented in product Hazard Assessment Monographs, to support worker safety.

• Monitor scientific developments and conduct desktop research including literature searches and critically evaluate and summarize scientific information and government regulations.

• Support scientific work including regulatory compliance, trade associations, and professional organizations relevant to work assignments.

• Coordinate Amgen EHSS contributions for influencing external scientific and regulatory activities and key initiatives such as ICH M7 (mutagenic impurities) and updates to EU GMPs (setting health-based limits for pharmaceuticals).

• The role is hybrid, option for remote work may be available

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional individual we seek is an individual with these qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree PhD OR PharmD OR MD [and relevant post-doc where applicable] and 2 years of toxicology experience OR

• Master’s degree and 5 years of toxicology experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of toxicology experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS or Ph.D. in toxicology, pharmacology, or related health sciences

• Toxicology board certification (DABT or ERT) and minimum 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry

• Experience with the principles and practice of leachable/extractables studies, chemical characterization of packaging and device materials/components, and risk-based toxicology assessments of extractables and leachable

• Knowled