Associate - Protein Chemistry

## Associate
- Protein Chemistry Apply remote type:
On Site locations:
US
- California
- Thousand Oakstime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
R-247239##
** Career Category
** Scientific## ##
** 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.
** Associate - Protein Chemistry**##
** What you will do
** Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Amgen is seeking a highly motivated Associate 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  this role, you will support the analysis and characterization of large molecule, therapeutic drug candidates, many of which are complex biologics.
** Responsibilities:
*** Analyzing and characterizing novel and complex molecules that will be the next generation of large molecule therapeutics.
* Contributing to the execution of our analytics, molecular assessment, and protein purification capabilities.
* Organizing, analyzing, and reporting findings to support lead candidate selection.
* Partnering with Project, Analytics and Automation teams to advance our pipeline.##
** What we expect of you
** We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Protein Chemist we seek will have these qualifications.
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* Basic Qualifications:

** Bachelor’s degree in life sciences.

OR Associate’s degree and 2 years of relevant scientific experienceORHigh school diploma / GED and 4 years of protein purification, and/or protein analytics experience.
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* Preferred Qualifications:

*** Bachelor’s degree in a relevant scientific discipline.
* Demonstrated strong communication skills, ability to multi-task and work collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment.
* Demonstrated track record of independent critical thinking and creative problem-solving.
* Experience with protein analytics fundamentals, techniques, instrumentation, software.
* Familiarity with protein purification fundamentals and techniques.
* Familiarity with handling and analyzing large datasets.##
** What you can expect of us
** 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  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…