Research​/Development Associate, Pharmaceutical Science​/ Research

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.

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be a part of the Process Development Drug Substance Technology group at Amgen’s FleX Batch Biologics Manufacturing Facility. The Process Development Associate will help execute and perform experiments at the bench scale that span the end-to-end Drug Substance process, covering cell culture and/or purification operations. In this role, you will apply established platform approaches and utilize problem-solving skills to rapidly solve day-to-day experimental challenges.

Additionally, the Process Development Associate will utilize out-of-the-box thinking to contribute to technology development and will demonstrate the desire to expand and develop expertise in cell culture and/or purification, thereby further contributing to the integrated group.

• Manage lab equipment maintenance
• Batch media and buffers required for use in the PD lab
• Assist on small-scale bioprocess experiments that encompass cell culture and/or purification operations
• Ensure safety and compliance of process development activities
• Experimental design and data interpretation, leveraging in-house visualization and analytics tools
• Contribute within a project team on commercial manufacturing goals such as improving process yield and robustness, and scaling-up processes to manufacturing sites
• Communication of findings through oral presentations and written documentation (technical reports as well as GMP documents to support regulatory filings)

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

• High school diploma / GED and 6 years of biologics process development or commercial-scale technical support experience OR
• Associate’s degree and 4 years of biologics process development or commercial-scale technical support experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Biomedical, or related Engineering;
  Life Sciences; or other relevant sciences
• Experience and demonstrated interest in laboratory work, particularly hands-on experience with cell culture and/or purification operations
• Basic understanding of cell culture, protein chromatography, and filtration principles
• Demonstrated ability to identify and solve problems by applying scientific and engineering principles, preferably in a process development environment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work flexibly in a dynamic and collaborative environment with diverse team members
• Familiarity with design of experiments and statistical analysis of data

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is…