Career Category

Engineering

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.

Software Engineer

The Research and Automation Technologies team is seeking to fill a Software Engineer position at its Thousand Oaks or South San Francisco facility. Primary responsibilities include management and automation of R&AT software development efforts, including source code repository and automated build system management, AWS infrastructure management, device driver development, and data integration for the benefit of Research automation projects. Software development activities will include code to control lab automation and instrumentation (both 3rd party and internally developed), and code to extract, transform, and load data between lab instrumentation and Amgen’s lab informatics management systems and analysis tools. This is an exciting, fast-paced role where every project is unique, requiring constant innovation.

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will

• Management of source code repository (GitLab on AWS) and automated build system (Team City on AWS) management.
• Management of AWS infrastructure: patching as required by our Global Infrastructure Services and Global Information Protection organizations.
• Development of code to control the operation of lab automation and instruments. This code will then be consumed by additional custom-developed code to integrate and orchestrate the operation of multiple instruments, or wrapped so that it can be consumed by 3rd party integration software such as Cellario or Overlord.
• Development of instrument microcontroller firmware to reside on instruments and expose an interface to enable external PC control.
• Design and development of database schemas and solutions.
• Work closely with our scientists to elucidate requirements, design a solution, and rapidly iterate on development and test cycles until the solution is accepted and productive.
• Develop desktop and web applications with simple, elegant user interfaces that enable our scientists to perform their informatic tasks faster and more accurately.
• Monitoring technological developments in the field & evaluation of new technologies.

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is a go-getter with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

Master's Degree

OR

Bachelor's Degree and 2-3 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's in computer science, or a relevant field
• Experience using Microsoft Visual Studio, C#, WPF, and the .NET framework to develop desktop and web applications.
• Experience with SQL Server and Oracle databases, developing and optimizing queries, stored procedures, etc.
• Proven troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Demonstrated successful interpersonal relationships with peers and colleagues in other scientific teams.
• Demonstrated ability to work in teams to scale a process from a manual proof-of-concept to a fully-automated, high-capacity, high-throughput unattended operation.
• High level of self-motivation

Thrive

Some of the vast rewards of working here

As we work to develop treatments that look after 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 improve 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.

careers.amgen.com

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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Amgen requires all staff in the United States and Puerto Rico to be vaccinated from COVID 19 as a condition of employment. In accordance with applicable law, Amgen will provide reasonable accommodations to staff members who qualify on the basis of a medical reason or a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance. Such accommodation may not pose an undue hardship to Amgen, its operations, or its staff.

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