Senior 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. Senior Associate – Protein Chemistry What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will develop and execute high throughput assays to support the pipeline, contribute to the development of innovative solutions to advance our purification, analytics, and molecular assessment capabilities.

Requirements

• Master’s degree OR Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of protein purification, and/or protein analytics experience.
• OR Associate’s degree and 4 years of protein purification, and/or protein analytics experience.
• OR High school diploma / GED and 6 years of protein purification, and/or protein analytics experience.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated experience with protein purification, bioanalytical techniques, and protein characterization.
• Demonstrated effective 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.
• Familiarity with executing high throughput processes and handling large datasets.
• Familiarity with cell culture or protein engineering is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Purifying and characterizing novel and complex molecules that will be the next generation of large molecule therapeutics.
• Contributing to the execution of our purification, analytics, and molecular assessment capabilities.
• Analyzing and reporting purification and analytics data to support lead candidate selection.
• Partnering with Project, Data Science, Analytics and Automation teams to advance innovation.

Benefits

• health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities
• 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: Mid Level