Process Development Senior Scientist - Pre-Pivotal Drug Product Technologies

Process Development Sr Scientist

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.

What You Will Do

In this vital role you will join Pre-Pivotal Drug Product Technologies group, responsible for early-stage drug product development across diverse modalities, with a strong emphasis on monoclonal antibodies, multispecifics and other biologic modalities. The role involves designing and developing liquid and lyophilized formulations; evaluating critical quality attributes (CQAs); establishing robust, scalable fill/finish processes for complex biologic drug products; and authoring and supporting high quality regulatory submissions.

• Work effectively in a fast-paced, matrixed environment, collaborating across process development, research, regulatory, and manufacturing teams to advance programs and communicate technical recommendations to both scientific peers and leadership.
• Plan and execute formulation and fill/finish process studies for early-stage programs.
• Develop and characterize liquid and lyophilized formulations for biologics, with particular emphasis on biologics drug product formulation, handling, and lab-scale sterile filling.
• Build process understanding across unit operations to support scalable drug product development.
• Evaluate in-use compatibility and drug product stability under clinical conditions.
• Investigate biologics-relevant CQAs (e.g., aggregation, fragmentation, charge/size variants, subvisible particles, surface interactions) to inform formulation and process design decisions.
• Identify and address technology gaps impacting biologics stability, protein-excipient interactions, and process-related stress responses.
• Apply machine learning, AI, laboratory automation, and advanced data science to predictive modeling, workflow acceleration, and decision-making.
• Ensure development approaches are phase-appropriate, from discovery through clinical manufacturing.
• Author technical documents, control-strategy inputs, risk assessments, IND/CTA regulatory sections, and tech transfer packages.
• Support internal and external technology transfer activities, including collaboration with CMOs/CDMOs, batch record review, process fit assessments, person-in-plant support, and troubleshooting during manufacturing campaigns.
• Present findings to internal/external stakeholders and participate in cross-functional teams.

What We Expect Of You

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a leader 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:

• PhD in Pharmaceutics, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, or related field with 2–4 years of postdoc or industry experience.
• Proven experience in formulation development, stability testing, and fill/finish operations for biologics; direct biologics drug product formulation experience is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated understanding of biologics drug product development considerations, including protein degradation,…