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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.

Senior Associate Data Scientist

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What you will do

We are seeking a Data Scientist to join our team to develop an insight driven sensing capability with a focus on revolutionizing decision making. As part of this role you will be solving big data problems and developing insights as part of a product team of data scientists, business analysts, and software engineers. The team will rely on your expertise in data science using a wide array of modeling and quantitative techniques.

• Build supervised and unsupervised algorithms to provide meaningful insights across Amgen’s value chain (R&D, Commercial, Operations)
• Work closely with machine learning engineers to develop production code and deliver end-to-end solutions
• Transform ambiguous business questions into measurable and impactful projects
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams of biologists, clinical experts, doctors, and commercial leads
• Translate complex problems and solutions and provide actionable insight to executives

Basic Qualifications

Master’s degree

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of relevant experience

OR

Associate’s degree and 6 years of relevant experience

OR

High school diploma / GED and 8 years of relevant experience

Win

What we expect of you

We seek is a self-starter with these qualifications:

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field (MS, PhD, or equivalent experience)
• 1+ year of industry experience in quantitative analytics and applied data science
• Strong proficiency in Python or R
• Extensive experience building a variety of machine learning models
• Experience writing SQL queries, mining large and imbalanced datasets, using data visualization tools
• Ability to translate complex data sets and research into simple business recommendations
• Excellent communicator able to write and speak about technical concepts to business, technical, and lay audiences
• Experience working with healthcare data (e.g. electronic medical records, claims)
• Experience with distributed (Spark, Dask) and cloud (AWS, GCP) computing
• Experience with Git or similar version control tool
• Experience building deep learning models

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

Apply now

for a career that defies imagination

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

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