Process Development Associate Scientist - Pre-Pivotal Drug Product Technologies

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. Process Development Associate Scientist What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will join Pre-Pivotal Drug Product Technologies group, responsible for early-stage drug product development across diverse modalities, with a strong emphasis on monoclonal antibodies, multispecifics and other biologic modalities. The role involves designing and developing liquid and lyophilized formulations; evaluating critical quality attributes (CQAs); establishing robust, scalable fill/finish processes for complex biologic drug products; and authoring and supporting high quality regulatory submissions.

Requirements

• Master’s degree OR Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of Scientific experience OR Associate’s degree and 4 years of Scientific experience OR High school diploma / GED and 6 years of Scientific experience

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Pharmaceutics, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Physical Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemical Engineering, or related field with a minimum of 3+ years of industrial experience in pharmaceutical/biotechnology or related field
• Understanding of physical/chemical stability of proteins and how process related stress impacts product quality.
• Preferred experience in biophysical analysis (Light scattering, DSF, AUC, FFF) and mass spectrometry (peptide mapping).
• Ability to learn and act on dynamic information at a rapid pace, hard-working and collaborative attitude
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for timely documentation, presentation, and discussion of scientific results for a fast pace and cross functional environment.
• Proven experience in formulation development and fill/finish operations for biologics; direct biologics drug product formulation experience is strongly preferred.
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput formulation development, automated liquid handling systems (e.g., Hamilton, Tecan, Beckman Coulter, Opentrons, or equivalent), and robotic laboratory workflows.
• Experience implementing laboratory automation, workflow digitization, and electronic data capture to improve R&D productivity.
• Familiarity with DoE, high-throughput experimentation, laboratory robotics, and workflow orchestration for formulation and process development.
• Strong foundation in analytical techniques relevant to biologics and biologics (e.g., UPLC/HPLC, SEC, IEX, RP-HPLC, HIC, CE-SDS, subvisible particle analysis, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute formulation, stability, end-use compatibility, and fill/finish process studies for early-stage programs.
• Develop and characterize liquid and lyophilized formulations for biologics, with particular emphasis on biologics drug product formulation, handling, and lab-scale sterile filling.
• Investigate biologics-relevant CQAs (e.g., aggregation, fragmentation, charge/size variants, subvisible particles, surface interactions) to inform formulation and process design decisions.
• Design, develop, and execute automated high-throughput formulation screening workflows to accelerate excipient selection, formulation optimization, and processability assessments.
• Develop and implement laboratory automation solutions, including robotic liquid handling systems and automated sample preparation workflows, to improve experimental throughput, reproducibility, and data quality.
• Utilize design of experiments (DoE), high-throughput experimentation, and automated data analysis pipelines to efficiently explore formulation design space and support data-driven decision making.
• Identify and address technology gaps impacting biologics stability, protein-excipient interactions, and process-related stress responses.
• Apply machine learning, AI, laboratory automation, and data science to predictive modeling, workflow acceleration, and decision-making.
• Author/review guideline documents, technical protocols, technical transfer documentation, reports, product impact assessments, and regulatory sections in support of IND submissions
• Meticulous data collection, documentation using electronic data capture systems
• Ability to work in a matrixed team and present data cross functionally

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