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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.

Live

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world.

The Quality Data Science group uses Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to deliver insights to help Amgen and specifically the Quality organization ensure that we deliver safe and effective therapeutics. We create tools and deploy models working with functional areas to help them make data driven decisions. Additionally, we automate statistical analyses to reduce turnaround time and improve the quality of those analyses.

We are seeking a Data Scientist to join our team to develop and maintain tools and models to gain insight that will drive business performance for Amgen and our patients. The successful applicant will show the ability to communicate well with cross functional teams. They will be able to self-direct their efforts. As part of this role you will:

• Work in a team to deliver NLP/ML models to develop insights from data to ensure the quality of Amgen’s products.

• Automate routine statistical analyses with tools like: R Shiny, Python Dash, and Spotfire.

• Manage a portfolio of tools and provide support to the business users.

• Partner with cross functional teams on projects and/or programs which derive insights that deliver substantial business value for Amgen and our patients

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 collaborative partner with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Master’s degree

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of Engineering experience

OR

Associate’s degree and 6 years of Engineering experience

OR

High school diploma / GED and 8 years of Engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Applied Physics, Statistics, or Operations Research

• Experience with databases

• Programming experience with Python, R, experience with ML libraries

• Familiarity with programming in Spark or other parallel computing

• Experience working with large datasets (pharma data or marketing data preferred)

• Detailed technical proficiency with strong logical, problem solving, and decision-making skills.

• Excellent organization/planning skills and talent for managing many large and complex datasets.

• Ability to communicate analyses in a clear, precise, and practical manner

• Experience working with and cleaning text data

• Basic understanding of Amazon Web Services (ex: S3, Redshift, EC2, Sagemaker, IAM, etc.)

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 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.

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