Sr 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 careerr.

Sr Scientist

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will work in our Pivotal Drug Product Technologies Group in Thousand Oaks, CA. This group is responsible for late stage drug product formulation and process development for biologics modalities. The Scientist will provide technical and project support, integrating effective cross-functional collaboration, to ensure success through the Drug Product commercialization process and lifecycle management. Platform capabilities, prior product knowledge, modeling, and data analytics/visualization will be applied to advance Amgen’s pipeline.

The responsibilities of this candidate will include:

• Participate in Drug Product Commercialization Teams responsible for conducting process development of pipeline products and for supporting commercial products through lifecycle management
• Design, plan, complete, and document formulation and process development studies
• Apply scientific/engineering principles and techniques to develop, characterize and implement processes and next generation technologies and to solve technical challenges
• Apply advanced statistical/data analytics techniques to draw conclusions and inform decisions
• Provide support, as needed, to clinical and commercial fill/finish manufacturing operations through process capability analysis, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and product impact assessments for process changes/improvements and non-conformance investigations
• Author/review guideline documents, technical protocols, reports, product impact assessments, and regulatory sections in support of IND and marketing application submissions
• Stay current on the latest developments in the industry and scientific community to continue innovating and to meet future business needs
• Effectively and consistently communicate with management, cross-functional partners and relevant team members on progress towards achievements and forthcoming program needs.
• Lead cross functional initiatives enhancing Pivotal Drug Product platforms
• Manage and contribute to process design improvement projects
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 10% of the time

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree PhD OR PharmD OR MD
OR
Master’s degree and 3 years of Scientific experience
OR
Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of Scientific experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Pharmaceutics or related field
• Experience in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing
• Experience in biologics process development, formulation development, fill-finish process engineering, technical transfers to global manufacturing sites, statistical process control (SPC), and statistical design and analysis of experiments
• Experience with development and characterization of formulations and drug product manufacturing processes
• Experience with programming, application of AI-enabled tools as well as data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Spotfire, D3js)
• Proficiency in at least one statistical software package (e.g. SAS, JMP or Minitab)
• Critical thinking, problem solving and independent research skills
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to