Senior Scientist – Process Development in Chemistry
Senior Scientist – Process Development in Chemistry Career Category: Process Development
Job Description: How Might You Defy Imagination?
You’ve worked hard to become the professional you are today, and now you’re ready to take the next step in your career. How will you leverage your skills, experience, and passion to achieve your goals? At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives everything we do. This mission is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Join us and do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.
Process Development Senior Scientist – Process Chemistry
Live – What You Will Do
Amgen is seeking a talented Process Development Senior Scientist to join our Drug Substance Technologies – Synthetics (DSTS) group. This group, part of Process Development (PD), is responsible for inventing, developing, and implementing drug substance manufacturing processes and technologies to advance Amgen’s portfolio of synthetic and hybrid assets.
As a Process Chemist within the team, you will apply your synthetic training to invent synthetic routes and develop chemical processes to support drug substance manufacturing from early to late-stage development. The successful candidate will be highly motivated, team-oriented, and possess a strong background in organic chemistry and/or biochemistry, with a proven track record of scientific innovation and achievement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Invent synthetic routes and develop safe, robust, and cost-effective processes to manufacture synthetic and hybrid drug substances.
- Advance enabling technologies to accelerate pharmaceutical development and improve sustainability and process efficiency.
- Support cGMP manufacturing and technology transfer to internal manufacturing facilities and external contract manufacturers.
- Ensure process performance through process understanding, modeling, and characterization.
- Contribute to drug substance development teams by providing experimental results, technical updates, documentation, data interpretation, and recommendations.
- Work cross-functionally to deliver regulatory documents and support regulatory filings.
- Serve as a technical expert and stay current in the field of organic and process chemistry.
- Collaborate effectively in a multidisciplinary team of chemists, engineers, and attribute scientists.
- Work independently to advance projects and studies within required deadlines.
Win – What We Expect of You
We value the unique contributions of all our team members as we work together to serve patients. The self-starting professional we seek is a scientist with these qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Doctorate degree in Chemistry, to be completed by June 2025, OR
- Master’s degree in Chemistry with 4 years of industry experience, OR
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry with 6 years of industry experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- PhD in organic chemistry with expertise in areas such as total synthesis, reaction methodology, mechanistic studies, biocatalysis, peptide chemistry, oligonucleotide chemistry, conjugation chemistry, and/or chemoinformatics/machine learning.
- Post-doctoral experience in an academic laboratory or the pharmaceutical/biotech industry.
- A strong track record of peer-reviewed publications and research presentations.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a dynamic, interdisciplinary environment to achieve results.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to multitask, plan, and execute complex projects effectively.
- A research summary included with your CV is strongly encouraged.
Thrive – What You Can Expect From Us
As we work to develop treatments that help others, we also prioritize the professional and personal growth and well-being of our team members. Here’s what you can expect:
- Comprehensive Employee Benefits: Includes a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
- Incentives: A discretionary annual bonus program or, for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan. Stock-based long-term incentives are also offered.
- Time-Off Plans: Award-winning time-off plans, including bi-annual company-wide shutdowns.
- Flexible Work Models: Options for remote work arrangements, where possible.
Salary Range:
The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is $125,274 to $143,832. Actual salary will vary based on factors such as skills, experience, and qualifications.
Apply Now – A Career That Defies Imagination
Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Amgen is committed to providing equal employment opportunities. We consider applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. We also ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and access other benefits of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
About Amgen
Amgen is dedicated to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing, and delivering innovative human therapeutics. Using tools like advanced human genetics, we unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology. As a biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to become one of the world’s leading independent biotechnology companies. We have reached millions of patients worldwide and are developing a pipeline of medicines with transformative potential.
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