Process Development Principal Scientist
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.
Requirements
- Doctorate degree PhD OR PharmD OR MD and 2 years of Scientific experience
- Master’s degree and 5 years of Scientific experience
- Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of Scientific experience
Nice To Haves
- Ph.D. in a relevant scientific field, such as Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or Pharmaceutical Sciences.
- Strong scientific foundation with deep understanding of organic molecules and their assemblies.
- Strong scientific acumen in organic chemistry, physical chemistry, solid-state chemistry, and the physicochemical properties of small molecules.
- Pharmaceutical industry experience, preferably with oral solid dosage forms.
- Proficiency with characterization techniques, including XRPD, DSC, TGA, SEM, and related methods.
- Knowledge of patent application processes and related legal frameworks is advantageous.
- Proven experience in authoring relevant sections for market applications and responding to questions from the agency.
- Experience mentoring and developing team members.
- Comprehensive understanding of unit operations used to manufacture oral solid dosage forms.
- Ability to design, execute, and complete independent formulation research.
- Demonstrated record of scientific publication and research dissemination.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Exceptional technical writing skills with strong attention to detail.
Responsibilities
- Head the research and development efforts related to manufacturing processes.
- Design, conduct, and interpret experimental studies and develop novel methodologies to improve efficiency and quality.
- Serves as the Attribute Sciences Representative on cross-functional project teams and collaborates effectively with scientists across multidisciplinary teams.
- Leads and drives the analytical assessment of a Pre-pivotal candidate biotherapeutic through development.
- Designs experiments to build a fundamental understanding of therapeutic protein attributes and stability characteristics.
- Applies advanced technical expertise in analytical methods to characterize protein therapeutics, including CE, SEC, IEX, RP, HILIC, and mass spectrometry, with strong understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of stability-indicating assays, including design, performance, and data interpretation.
- Evaluates analytical method performance and reliability, including the impact of proposed method changes.
- Demonstrates deep understanding of product quality attributes, analytical approaches used to measure them, and strategies to ensure appropriate control.
- Supports drug substance and drug product process development, protein characterization, analytical data generation for regulatory submissions, and technology transfer activities.
- Authors regulatory documents and applies understanding of regulatory expectations for analytical methods, control strategies, stability strategies, and comparability.
- Stays current in the field and evaluates emerging analytical technologies.
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
