Process Development Associate- Attribute Sciences

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

11d • Onsite

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. Process Development Associate- Attribute Sciences What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Amgen is a leading biotechnology company with a mission to serve patients around the world. As a science-based, patient-focused organization, we discover and develop innovative therapies to treat serious illnesses. Amgen’s Attribute Sciences (AS) department within the Process Development (PD) organization defines the favorable quality characteristics of the therapies it produces and optimizes innovative analytical tools to guide that development. The Pivotal PD organizations focus is developing and commercializing robust manufacturing processes across a wide range of therapeutic biologic modalities, including (but not limited to) monoclonal and bispecific antibodies, bispecific T-cell engagers (“BiTEs”), live oncolytic viruses, and synthetic medicines. As a PD Associate, the candidate will participate in protein characterization studies to support regulatory filings using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) / Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC) and mass spectrometry (MS). The candidate will also work to develop, qualify, and transfer analytical methods to Quality Control, and optimize and troubleshoot existing methods. They will collaborate with other process development departments to support commercial process development and process characterization studies in support of marketing applications. This position is located at our Thousand Oaks, CA site.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree OR Associate’s degree and 2 years of Scientific experience OR High school diploma / GED and 4 years of Scientific experience

Nice To Haves

• Scientific background in method development and product characterization for therapeutic proteins
• Preferred Degree in Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Protein Chemistry or related subject area
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to multitask, efficiently plan and follow through on complex projects
• A self-starter, and someone who values working in teams

Responsibilities

• Perform method development and qualification studies using HPLC, UPLC, and Capillary Electrophoresis platforms
• Perform chromatographic fractionation, peptide mapping, intact mass, and other LC-MS studies to support product characterization and comparability studies
• Author results in laboratory notebooks and method development reports, interfacing closely with Attribute Sciences Team Leads and Quality Control to transfer and troubleshoot qualified methods
• Participate in the maintenance of Attribute Sciences instruments and assist the Attribute Sciences department in maintaining a phase appropriate good manufacturing practices (GMP) environment
• With a focus toward evaluation of critical quality attributes, coordinate and perform attribute identification and characterization studies, including isolation and analysis of chromatography fractions
• Conduct and coordinate accelerated stability studies to define therapeutic degradative pathways
• Perform evaluation of novel platform analytical technologies to help drive innovation
• Perform experiments to help answer questions from health authorities
• Collaborate with partner organizations during commercial process development, process characterization, and process validation studies to support marketing applications

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: High school or GED