Career Category

Scientific

Job Description

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

You’ve earned your degree. How will you use that achievement to reach your goals? Do more with the knowledge you’ve worked hard to acquire and the passion you already have. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Become the professional you are meant to be in this meaningful role.

Associate Scientist

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for hands-on protein purification and biochemical characterization for a variety of protein classes.

Amgen’s Therapeutic Discovery organization is seeking an enthusiastic team-oriented Associate Scientist to join the Protein Technologies group at our South San Francisco site. Protein Technologies is responsible for designing, planning, and executing on the generation of key enabling reagents to support early discovery of small and large molecule therapeutics and cutting-edge novel modalities. The successful candidate will work closely with other protein biochemists, as well as colleagues in expression and analytics groups within Therapeutic Discovery.

Responsibilities

• Purify recombinant proteins of various formats
• Perform standard analytical techniques to assess final protein quality
• Comply with internal data entry and record keeping requirements

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The scientific professional we seek is an individual contributor with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Chemistry, or a related subject area and 2-4 years of scientific laboratory experience
• Master’s Degree and 0-2 years of experience in a relevant discipline

Preferred Qualifications

• Broad training in protein biochemistry
• Proficiency in protein purification methods, including experience with chromatography instrumentation
• Understanding of common strategies for protein expression. Hands-on experience is a plus
• Familiarity with analytical methods such as HPLC or LC-MS is a plus
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Desire to be a team player in a cross-functional environment
• Ability to thrive and adapt in a dynamic environment

Thrive

Some of the vast rewards of working here

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Full support and career-development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise, and maximize your potential along your career journey
• A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
• Generous Total Rewards Plan—comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits—with compensation and benefits rated above 4 stars (out of 5) on Glassdoor

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for a career that defies imagination

Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.

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Equal Opportunity Statement

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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