Process Development Sr Associate

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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. 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 Sr Associate

Duties: Support the development, characterization and scale up of cell culture and protein purification operations to enable commercial manufacturing advancement by conducting experiments, analyzing data, and documenting results. Work closely with senior scientists and engineers to implement process improvements. Support development of early phase cell culture, recovery and purification processes for Amgen’s large molecule expansion through production bioreactor, harvest, clarification, chromatography, and/or filtration technologies as well as completing virus clearance studies. Identify, develop and implement solutions to practical problems through application of fundamental scientific and engineering principles.  

Requirements: Employer will accept a Master’s Degree in Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Microbiology or related field and completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, thesis, or one year of experience in the following:   

1. Cell culture principles, cell metabolism profiles, protein chromatography, filtration and UF/DF operations to perform small scale bioprocess experiments that encompass both upstream (cell culture) and downstream (purification) operations;  

2. Experience with mammalian cell culture to maintain and scale up cell culture in shake flasks, culture bags and bench top bioreactors; 3. Experience with purification operations to run bench-top chromatography columns to generate purified antibody product;  

4. Identify and solve problems by applying scientific and engineering principles;  

5. Design of experiments and statistical analysis of data and programming in JMP, R, or Python environments;  

6. Experience with automation efforts to enable high throughput technologies for accelerated process development 

Contact: Interested candidates please apply via https://careers.amgen.com/en/search-jobs and search for job # R-243909 

Job type: Full Time position. The annual salary for this position in the U.S. is $96,605.00– $119,055.00 per year. Also, this position offers stock, retirement, medical, life and disability insurance and eligibility for an annual bonus or for sales roles, other incentive compensation. For more details visit https://careers.amgen.com/life-at-amgen/benefits/

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of 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 that may include:

• 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

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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