Principal Scientist, Inflammation

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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.

Principal Scientist, Inflammation

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead discovery and translational biology efforts for a novel immune-targeting therapeutic platform focused on selective modulation of pathogenic immune-cell populations in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

This role will emphasize in vitro and ex vivo immune cell-assay development, mechanistic characterization and in vivo translational pharmacology to support candidate advancement. You will play a central role in defining the experimental and translational framework required to translate early platform concepts into therapeutic candidates capable of delivering robust and durable immune pharmacology.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead in vitro and ex vivo biological strategy for a next-generation immune-targeting therapeutic platform, establishing experimental approaches to evaluate immune effector activity and target cell elimination in relevant in vitro and preclinical models.
• Design and execute in vivo studies evaluating lymphocyte-mediated target cell depletion, immune pharmacology, and durability of therapeutic responses in mouse models of inflammatory disease.
• Develop and optimize in vitro and ex vivo functional immune-cell assays, including co-culture systems, cytotoxicity or target-cell modulation assays and readouts of immune-cell activation, expansion, persistence, target engagement and pharmacodynamic response.
• Build translational biology capabilities including immune cell profiling, biodistribution studies, and pharmacodynamic biomarker development to support candidate optimization.
• Integrate in vitro and in vivo datasets to generate mechanistic insights that inform platform optimization and candidate selection.
• Advance lead therapeutic candidates toward development by delivering preclinical efficacy and mechanistic datasets supporting program progression.
• Collaborate with discovery biology, protein engineering, delivery sciences, in vivo pharmacology and translational safety to design, perform, and analyze laboratory experiments encompassing in vitro, ex vivo, in silico, and in vivo methodologies.
• Serve as key scientific contributor on cross-functional project teams by synthesizing data, presenting conclusions, documenting results and communicating recommendations to internal and external scientific audiences.
• Exhibit excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills, produce reliable and reproducible results, multitask efficiently, and coordinate multiple projects confidently.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is a research leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree PhD

OR

PharmD

OR MD [and relevant post-doc where applicable] and 2 years of experience in drug discovery or academic settings

OR

Master’s degree and 5 years of experience in drug discovery or academic settings

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of experience in drug discovery or academic settings experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Research Experience: PhD with deep expertise in lymphocyte biology and immune effector mechanisms and over 5 years of experience in immunology-related research in industry or academic settings.
• Scientific Contributions: Demonstrated track record of independent scientific contributio