Associate 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. 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 develop and execute high throughput assays to support the pipeline, contribute to the development of innovative solutions to advance our purification, analytics, and molecular assessment capabilities. Amgen is seeking an innovative Associate Scientist to join the Protein Therapeutics (PT) – Protein Chemistry team. PT is a multidisciplinary team with broad capabilities in protein engineering, expression, purification, and characterization.

We are responsible for the engineering, production, assessment, and final selection of large molecule drug candidates that advance to Process Development.

• Advancing our pipeline by purifying and characterizing novel and complex molecules that will be the next generation of large molecule therapeutics
• Developing novel, innovative solutions to advance our purification, analytics, and molecular assessment capabilities with automation
• Analyzing and reporting data for large molecule drug candidate selection
• Partnering with Project, Data Science, Analytics and Automation teams to drive innovation

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is a highly collaborative, motivated candidate with these qualifications.

• Master’s degree and 1 year of protein analytics and characterization assay experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 3 years protein analytics and characterization assay experience

• Master’s degree and 5 years of high throughput large molecule characterization experience
• Demonstrated effective communication skills, ability to multi-task and work collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment
• Broad experience with automated high throughput assay development, execution, and analysis
• Demonstrated expertise in protein characterization, bioanalytical techniques; familiarity with cloning, purification, protein engineering, and mammalian protein expression is a plus
• Demonstrated track record of independent critical thinking and creative problem-solving skill set

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 posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:

• 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…