Process Development Sr Associate

Process Development Sr Associate Responsibilities

Support the development, characterization and scale up of cell culture and protein purification operations to enable commercial manufacturing advancement by conducting experiments, analyzing data, and documenting results. Work closely with senior scientists and engineers to implement process improvements. Support development of early phase cell culture, recovery and purification processes for Amgen's large molecule expansion through production bioreactor, harvest, clarification, chromatography, and/or filtration technologies as well as completing virus clearance studies.

Identify, develop and implement solutions to practical problems through application of fundamental scientific and engineering principles.

Employer will accept a Masters Degree in Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Microbiology or related field and completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, thesis, or one year of experience in the following:

• Cell culture principles, cell metabolism profiles, protein chromatography, filtration and UF/DF operations to perform small scale bioprocess experiments that encompass both upstream (cell culture) and downstream (purification) operations.
• Experience with mammalian cell culture to maintain and scale up cell culture in shake flasks, culture bags and bench top bioreactors; and experience with purification operations to run bench-top chromatography columns to generate purified antibody product.
• Identify and solve problems by applying scientific and engineering principles.
• Design of experiments and statistical analysis of data and programming in JMP, R, or Python environments.
• Experience with automation efforts to enable high throughput technologies for accelerated process development.

Job type:
Full Time position. The annual salary for this position in the U.S. is $96,605.00 - $ per year. Also, this position offers stock, retirement, medical, life and disability insurance and eligibility for an annual bonus or for sales roles, other incentive compensation. For more details visit

• 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.

Interested candidates please apply via  for job#R-243909.

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. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

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