Associate Engineer I

At Amgen, 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 a 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-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients through research, manufacturing, and delivering innovative medicines.

About the role

In this role, you will provide process development support to manufacturing operations and perform mammalian cell culture and lab activities to support the commercial development of Amgen’s pipeline. You will apply fundamental scientific principles to biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes (upstream cell culture) to develop process improvements, facility adaptations, and new process operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and on-the-floor support to assist in troubleshooting clinical and commercial drug substance manufacturing.
• Support GMP manufacturing process evaluations and investigations.
• Develop novel mammalian cell culture and next-generation technologies to increase yield, process robustness, and enable new unit operations.
• Apply engineering principles and statistical analysis, including design of experiments, to solve processing issues and evaluate opportunities for process improvements.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications

• High school diploma / GED and 6 years of scientific experience, OR
• Associate’s degree and 4 years of scientific experience, OR
• Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in a Biotech/Pharma Process Development and/or Manufacturing Support role for drug substance manufacturing.
• Understanding of cell culture processes, influence of raw material attributes, and impact of process deviations on growth and quality attributes.
• Experience with harvest and clarification processes used for mammalian cell culture.
• Knowledge of chemical engineering principles for scaling up unit operations from bench scale to commercial scale.
• Experience with chromatography, ultrafiltration, and normal flow filtration operations (a plus).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience developing and managing team training workflows and strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to work under moderate direction.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data.
• Self-starter with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Benefits

Amgen supports your professional and personal growth with a competitive benefits package and collaborative culture. The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted, with actual salary varying based on relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. Benefits 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 sales-based incentive plan for field sales representatives).
• Stock-based long-term incentives.
• Award-winning time-off plans.
• Flexible work models where possible.