Associate Engineer

Career Category Engineering 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 career.

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will partner with a multi-functional group of engineers and scientists to develop and optimize synthetic unit operations aligned with the intended phase of technology transfer and manufacturing. This work will include experimental design and execution, data analysis, process risk analysis, process characterization, facility fit assessment, and in-plant support of production operations during process execution and equipment commissioning.

Position located in Thousand Oaks, CA Domestic and International Travel: up to 20% In a team setting, design and execute experiments and implement modeling techniques for process development, optimization, characterization, and scale‑up of chemical processes in state-of-the-art facilities. Author documents for process understanding, technical transfer, risk assessment, facility fit, and process development and characterization. Function as a technical expert for lab equipment or systems.

With guidance and supervision, participate in manufacturing issue resolution, provide troubleshooting guidance, and recommend process improvements. Apply engineering principles and statistical analysis to solve process issues and evaluate opportunities for process improvements. Communicate and collaborate with Manufacturing, Process Development, and Quality departments.

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

• Bachelor’s degree OR Associate’s degree and 4 years of Engineering Experience OR High school diploma / GED and 6 years of Engineering Experience

• Academic background in Chemical Engineering
• Strong verbal communication and presentation skills
• Basic experience in process scale-up and technology transfer from laboratory to pilot and/or manufacturing scale
• Basic experience building and utilizing first‑principles models (reaction kinetics, mass transfer, separations, distillations, isolations, drying, and hydrodynamics) with proficiency across several modeling platforms
• Knowledge of analytical techniques and solid‑state characterization across a wide variety of techniques, including: HPLC, GC, MS, NMR, FTIR, LOD, TOC, FBRM, particle size determination, etc.
• Background in statistical analysis and design of experiments
• Basic knowledge of standard plant operations and safety practices
• Lab experience in a Process Development or Process Engineering environment, with specific experience…