Process Development Senior Associate

Process Development Senior Associate

Job type:
Full Time position. Annual salary range in the U.S.: $85,306.00 - $ per year. Offers stock, retirement, medical, life and disability insurance, and eligibility for an annual bonus or incentive compensation.

• Conduct experiments, analyze results, and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and product quality.
• Design, develop, and optimize manufacturing processes.
• Collaborate closely with a team of analysts and scientists.
• Responsible for the technical aspects of developing analytical tools to understand quality attributes in product and process for late‑phase synthetic small molecule, synthetic peptide, and siRNA programs.
• Utilize platform and in‑depth product attribute knowledge to advance products and ensure success through pivotal clinical phases to marketing‑authorization application.
• Develop, optimize, and execute analytical methods for synthetic small molecules, synthetic peptide, and siRNA release testing and process characterization.
• Collaborate with the drug substance process development team to achieve project objectives and provide analytical data to support drug substance product development.

• Masters degree or foreign equivalent in Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, or a related field.
• Completion of a university‑level course, research project, internship, thesis, or at least one year of experience in analytical chemistry for small molecules (e.g., designing and conducting targeted metabolomics experiments, extracting and analyzing results via dedicated software such as Chem Station, Mass Hunter, or Mass Analyzer).
• Experience in analytical method development (chromatography and mass spectrometry), related technologies and instrumentation including U/HPLC, GC, or LC‑MS.
• Experience with method qualification and transfer for analytical instruments, data analysis and statistical evaluation of experimental results.
• Application analytical instrument troubleshooting across different platforms (Waters, Agilent, or Sciex) and problem‑solving of such technologies.
• Implementation of Standard Operating Procedures in a laboratory environment in accordance with GLP standards.
• Maintaining a laboratory notebook.

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a retirement and savings plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales‑based incentive plan.
• Stock‑based long‑term incentives.
• Award‑winning time‑off plans.
• Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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