Associate - Protein Chemistry

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

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About The Position

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 Development. In this role, you will support the analysis and characterization of large molecule, therapeutic drug candidates, many of which are complex biologics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences.
• Associate’s degree and 2 years of relevant scientific experience
• High school diploma / GED and 4 years of protein purification, and/or protein analytics experience.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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.

Benefits

• 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 program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Award-winning time-off plans
• Flexible work models where possible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree