Associate Scientist
Amgen is a biotechnology company dedicated to serving patients living with serious illnesses. The Associate Scientist will develop and execute high throughput assays to support the pipeline, contributing to the advancement of purification, analytics, and molecular assessment capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Advancing our pipeline by purifying and characterizing novel and complex molecules that will be the next generation of large molecule therapeutics
- Developing novel, innovative solutions to advance our purification, analytics, and molecular assessment capabilities with automation
- Analyzing and reporting data for large molecule drug candidate selection
- Partnering with Project, Data Science, Analytics and Automation teams to drive innovation
Skills
- Masters degree and 1 year of protein analytics and characterization assay experience OR
- Bachelors degree and 3 years protein analytics and characterization assay experience
- Masters degree and 5 years of high throughput large molecule characterization experience
- Demonstrated effective communication skills, ability to multi-task and work collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment
- Broad experience with automated high throughput assay development, execution, and analysis
- Demonstrated expertise in protein characterization, bioanalytical techniques; familiarity with cloning, purification, protein engineering, and mammalian protein expression is a plus
- Demonstrated track record of independent critical thinking and creative problem-solving skill set
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, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible
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