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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, Next Generation Sequencing

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, you are a dedicated, experimental scientist, passionate about Next Generation Sequencing technologies, and focused on pushing the frontier of molecular & synthetic biology to support therapeutic innovation in the service of patients.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Associate with expertise in molecular biology and/or NGS to join our Protein Engineering team at Amgen in Thousand Oaks, CA. We are a multidisciplinary group in Research with capabilities in protein engineering, cloning, NGS, expression, purification, and analysis of therapeutic proteins, and we are responsible for the engineering, production, assessment, and final selection of large molecule drug candidates that advance to Process Development.

Responsibilities:

• Build high-throughput Illumina-based NGS libraries to support NGS pipelines within Therapeutic Discovery.
• Develop and optimize NGS sequencing and library preparation workflows, primarily for long-read sequencing on Oxford Nanopore instruments (e.g., MinION)
• Communicate with partner groups to coordinate and track NGS sequencing requests
• Provide scientific results that support the generation of publications, patents, or regulatory submissions, and participate in internal and external scientific meetings.

Win

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

• Master's degree OR
• Bachelor's degree and 2 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• A working understanding of Molecular Biology techniques related to DNA cloning, Next-Generation Sequencing, and recombinant protein expression
• Excellence in molecular biology experimental techniques
• Hands-on experience in NGS library preparation
• Experience following extended protocols and tracking experimental flow
• Sample and reagent management
• Efficient, timely and clear communication to enable working in teams

Thrive

Some of the vast rewards of working here

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.

• 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

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for a career that defies imagination

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

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