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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. 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. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us.

Principal Pathologist

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be an integral members of nonclinical safety sciences and cross-functional scientific teams. Across therapeutic indications and modalities, the Principal Pathologist will contribute to the drug development process from target identification and validation through product registration.

Translational Safety and Bioanalytical Sciences (TS & BA) is seeking a comparative/translational veterinary anatomic Principal Pathologist to join us at our South San Francisco, CA site.

Amgen discovers, develops, and delivers innovative human therapeutics. As one of the world’s leading independent biotechnology companies, Amgen therapeutics have changed the practice of medicine, helping millions of people around the world in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and other serious diseases. With a deep and broad pipeline of potential new medicines, Amgen remains committed to advancing science to dramatically improve people’s lives.

In this capacity, the successful candidate will:

• Contribute to discovery, investigative and regulatory studies.
• Interpret and integrate complex pathology data sets
• Problem solve safety issues, and provide context of human risk.
• Other opportunities exist including support of animal models of disease, mechanistic investigative studies, serving on interdisciplinary drug development product teams and participating on due diligence reviews.
• Scientific excellence, curiosity, proactivity, and critical thinking are part of our working principles.

Win

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications

• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) and board certification by the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP), or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD and/or post-doctoral research in a relevant field (e.g., life sciences, translational biology, molecular biology)
• 1+ years of academic or industry experience demonstrating a record of achievement
• Ability to critically evaluate and interpret results of experiments and integrate datasets and literature
• Ability to work independently, build cross-functional collaborations, manage conflict, and multi-task
• Demonstrated teamwork skills, resilience, and leadership skills
• Interest in digital pathology applications
• Working knowledge of database tools needed to effectively query literature and public databases

Thrive

What you can expect of us

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.

• Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization
• 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

Apply now

for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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Amgen will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.