Senior Scientist

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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.

Amgen is seeking a Senior Scientist to join our Pharmacokinetics, Drug Metabolism & Bioanalytical (PKDM-BA) team in Thousand Oaks, California.. The successful candidate will be able to work both independently and in collaboration with cross-functional partners, including protein therapeutics, medicinal chemistry, pharmacokinetics, toxicology, clinical pharmacology and regulatory affairs. Together, we design and validate quantitative methods that support drug candidate identification, preclinical development, clinical evaluation and regulatory submissions.

A Senior Scientist at Amgen is responsible for supporting all facets of the bioanalytical method lifecycle from drug development through clinical trial support as a subject matter expert. You will design, lead, and participate in the execution of experiments to support development, validation and production phases for quantitative bioanalytical methods. You will contribute to optimizing study protocols, reviewing experiments, and authoring bioanalytical reports.

Your expertise will be used to improve bioanalytical methods, lead troubleshooting efforts, and ensure quality.

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Senior Scientist, we seek is a scientifically driven, collaborative, and innovative expert.

• Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree and 2 years of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, CRO, or related scientific experience experience
• OR Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, CRO, or related scientific experience experience

• 6+ years of laboratory experience.
• Experience in immunology, immunochemistry, biochemistry, cell biology, or related disciplines.
• Ligand binding assay experience.
• Experience with biosimilars, oligonucleotide and antibody drug conjugates a plus.
• Working knowledge of GxP regulations and bioanalytical requirements in drug development.
• Bioanalytical Principal Investigator, or functional equivalency, highly desired.
• Ability to work independently on tasks with strong critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Experience with automated liquid handlers (e.g. Tecan, Hamilton)
• Proven ability to communicate scientific concepts effectively to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise.
• Demonstrated commitment to scientific excellence, innovation and quality.
• Strong collaboration, verbal communication and technical writing skills.
• Supervisory experience is valued.