**HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?**

Youve worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? At Amgen, our shared missionto serve patientsdrives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the worlds leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.

**Process Development Senior Scientist - Drug Substance Technologies**

**Synthetics**

**Live**

**What you will do**

Amgen is currently seeking a talented Process Development Senior Scientist to join our Drug Substance Technologies - Synthetics (DSTS) group at Cambridge, MA. Amgens DSTS group within Process Development (PD) is responsible for the invention and development of drug substance manufacturing processes and technologies to advance Amgen's exciting portfolio of synthetic and hybrid assets. Process chemists within our team apply their synthetic training to invent synthetic routes and chemical processes to support drug substance manufacturing from early to late-stage development. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated and team-oriented individual with a strong background in organic chemistry and/or biochemistry with a 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 to improve sustainability and process efficiency, including advances in biocatalysis, high-throughput technology, flow chemistry, and AI/machine learning

Support cGMP manufacturing and technology transfer to our 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, recommendations, etc.

Work cross-functionally to deliver regulatory documents and support regulatory filings

Serve as a technical expert and keep current in the field of organic and process chemistry

Work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team of chemists, engineers and attribute scientists

Be able to work independently to drive results and advance projects

**Win**

**What we expect of you**

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The self-starter professional we seek is a scientist with these qualifications.

**Basic Qualifications:**

Doctorate degree in Chemistry completed by June 2024

OR

Masters degree in Chemistry and 4 years of industry experience

Or

Bachelors degree in Chemistry and 6 years of industry experience

**Preferred Qualifications:**

Doctorate degree in organic chemistry or biochemistry with a specialization in biocatalysis, oligonucleotide chemistry, synthetic/conjugation chemistry and/or chemoinformatics/machine learning

Post-doctoral experience in an academic laboratory or pharmaceutical/biotech industry

Track record of peer-reviewed publications and research presentations

Ability to work within a dynamic and interdisciplinary environment to achieve results

Excellent written and verbal communication, ability to multitask, effectively plan and follow through on complex projects

A research summary included with CV is strongly encouraged

**Thrive**

**What you can expect of us**

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

Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising 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 including:

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 and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns

Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

**Apply now**

**for a career that defies imagination**

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

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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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.