Process Development Senior Associate

** 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.

** Process Development Senior Associate*
* ** What you will do*
* Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role you will join Amgen's DSTS group within Process Development (PD) is responsible for the invention, development, and implementation of drug substance manufacturing processes and technologies to advance Amgen's exciting portfolio of synthetic and hybrid assets.

Amgen is currently seeking a talented Process Development Senior Associate to join our Drug Substance Technologies - Synthetics (DSTS) group in Thousand Oaks, California. Senior Associates in our team collaborate with chemists, process engineers, and attribute scientists to support drug substance development and manufacturing from early to late-stage development. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated and team-oriented individual with prior lab-based research experience in bioconjugation.

+ Work within a drug substance team comprised of chemists, engineers, and attribute scientists to solve technical problems

+ Contribute to the development of safe, robust, and cost-effective processes to manufacture synthetic and hybrid drug substances

+ Support cGMP manufacturing and technology transfer to our internal manufacturing facilities and external contract manufacturers

+ Support process characterization activities, including process understanding and modeling

+ Contribute to drug substance development teams by providing experimental results, technical updates, documentation, data interpretation, recommendations, etc.

+ Works regularly with a supervisor to advance projects within required deadlines.

+ Work cross-functionally to deliver regulatory documents and support regulatory filings

+ Follows good laboratory documentation practices and standard operating procedures

** What we expect of you*
* We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. dynamic professional we seek is an individual with these qualifications.

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* Basic Qualifications:

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* + Master's degreeOR

+ Bachelor's degree and 2 years of Scientific experience OR

+ Associate's degree and 4 years of Scientific experience OR

+ High school diploma / GED and 6 years of Scientific experience

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* Preferred Qualifications:

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* + M.S. in organic chemistry or biochemistry/chemical biology with a specialization in bioconjugation chemistry

+ Prior bioconjugation experience in the biopharmaceutical or pharmaceutical industry

+ Demonstrated ability to work in a chemistry laboratory with minimal supervision

+ Ability to independently collect and interpret analytical results (NMR, HPLC, MS, IR, Raman, etc)

+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills,…