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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 Scientist - Cell Biology and Protein Degradation

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be a part of Amgen’s Induced Proximity Platform (IPP). The IPP is charged with developing Amgen’s newest drug modalities that demonstrate proximity biology to tackle the undruggable genome. Examples include, Targeted Protein Degradation modalities such as PROTACs and molecular GLUEs. The IPP is seeking a creative, emerging scientific leader to discover and develop novel therapies for cancer and other therapeutic areas.

• Develop platforms and modalities to impact challenging targets across multiple therapeutic areas, including oncology and immuno-oncology. The IPP takes innovative, cross-discipline approaches, including targeted protein degradation, to tackle the toughest targets.
• Develop innovative screening platform to support discovery and development of novel therapeutic modalities based on Targeted Protein Degradation, including prospective discovery of small molecule molecular GLUEs.
• Set project goals and timelines, design, perform and analyze experiments, interact with team members across different departments and research sites and communicate and present data to department leadership.
• Contribute to the scientific community through conference presentations and impactful publications.
• Inform departmental goals and strategy and will represent the department in various cross-functional activities including academic collaborations, external research evaluations, project teams, and scientific committees.

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The qualified professional we seek is a Sr. Associate Scientist with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree or
• Master’s degree and 4 years of relevant scientific experience or
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of relevant scientific experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Broad knowledge of cell and molecular biology with demonstrated independent research eminence through first author publications in top journals
• Prior experience with biochemical, biophysical, molecular and cellular techniques, including enzyme and cell assay development, generation of stable cell lines using lentivirus, protein degradation, ubiquitination characterization of protein modification and mechanistic studies of enzymes
• Experience with small molecule drug screening campaigns
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills
• Flexibility to work in teams to achieve changing project goals and meet timelines
• Strong data analysis, interpret complex data sets and critical thinking skills

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

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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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