Postdoctoral Fellow Drug Product Technologies

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

157d • $82,000 - $93,064 • Hybrid

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. 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. The postdoctoral fellow will help advance Amgen's drug delivery technologies by expanding our internal and the scientific community's knowledge of interactions of the drug product with siliconized prefilled syringe systems. The candidate will work under a mentor in collaboration with several investigators and functions in process development using a variety of chemical and physical techniques and will be responsible for designing, executing, and analyzing experimental and/or theoretical studies to better understand attributes of the silicone layer that are critical to maintenance of syringe lubricity while in contact with drug product. As part of the Amgen Postdoctoral program, you will gain valuable insight into drug product and delivery system development!

Requirements

• PhD at time of appointment in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Drug Delivery, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Analytical/Organic Chemistry, or a similar field.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with basic laboratory skills and various physico-chemical characterization techniques for films and/or interfaces
• Motivated with good problem-solving skills and the ability to learn and implement new techniques/skills
• Expertise in polymer chemistry and/or physics
• Experience with analysis of polymer interfacial phenomena over multiple length, temperature, and time-scales
• Experience with experimental techniques, design of experiments, and statistical analysis
• Experience with digital modeling or other digital data-processing skills
• Understanding of attributes that influence tribology phenomena
• Understanding of ways to measure tribology of surfaces
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for timely documentation, presentation, and manuscript preparation in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary, team-based environment

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross functional SMEs in Process Development
• Plan, design, implement, and document laboratory studies to advance understanding of interactions of the drug product with the siliconized syringe
• Plan, design, and implement experiments to characterize changes of tribology in the syringe
• Perform data analysis using advanced statistical/analytical techniques with proficiency in statistical analysis software
• Deliver progress reports and presentations to ensure management awareness and engagement of the current status, advancement, and future program functional needs
• Provide periodic support in the authorship of manuscripts, technical articles, departmental workshops and evaluation of offline capabilities

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
• Flexible spending accounts
• A discretionary annual bonus program
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Award-winning time-off plans
• Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree