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Scientific

Job Description

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

Amgen Inflammation & Oncology Research at South San Francisco is seeking a talented and highly motivated scientist with immunology experience to join a drug discovery team. You will design experimental studies and execute them, and the data you generate from these studies will drive decisions and illuminate novel biology. As a bench scientist, you will have opportunities to be the first to demonstrate that a scientific hypothesis can translate into experimentally demonstrable effects and a drug that can benefit patients with unmet medical needs. Amgen is a highly collaborative environment with leading experts in various disciplines of biology and drug development. We are committed to promoting diversity, inclusion, and belonging at workplace and community beyond. If you feel passionate about applying innovative thinking and scientific rigor to develop drugs that help patients, please apply.

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 a curious leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s degree and 3+ years of industry experience in inflammation and/or cancer immunotherapy drug discovery and development

Or

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of industry experience in inflammation and/or cancer immunotherapy drug discovery and development

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctorate degree with research experience in immunology, cell biology, molecular biology, cancer biology, and/or biochemistry

With technical expertise in two or more of the following:

• Multicolor(10+) flow cytometry and data analysis

• In vitro cell assay development and optimization

• Immune (T/B/NK/myeloid) cell biology

• Mouse in vivo models (genetic and disease models)

• Genomic or transcriptomic data analysis

Additional requirements:

• Ability to think critically and contribute to understanding biology of target and mechanism of action

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to collaborate

• Troubleshoot to solve problems

• Organizational skills

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

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Equal Opportunity Statement

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.

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