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Amgen Flow Cytometry, Clinical Assay Development- Senior Scientist in South San Francisco, California
HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?
You’ve worked hard to become the professional you are today and are now ready to take the next step in your career. How will you put your skills, experience and passion to work toward your goals? 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. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.
Flow Cytometry, Clinical Assay Development- Senior Scientist
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What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will perform clinical biomarker assays employing a variety of platforms to support our drug development efforts.
This person will be an integral member of a dynamic group of scientists and platform experts
Collaborate with scientists representing multiple therapeutic areas and work closely with groups in other functional areas.
Employ multiparametric flow cytometry in our biomarker laboratory to develop and qualify biomarker assays to support various clinical programs
Other responsibilities include independent thinking, choosing the appropriate platform, planning and performing laboratory experiments, documenting experimental protocols and results, analyzing and interpreting data, presenting results to the stakeholders and working with internal and external partners.
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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 laboratory based scientist with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate degree PhD OR PharmD OR MD and relevant post-doc where applicable OR
Master’s degree and 3 years of scientific/technical experience OR
Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of scientific/technical experience
Preferred Qualifications:
A strong background and experience in multiparametric flow cytometry assays including immunophenotyping, receptor occupancy and immune based functional assays is required for this position
Using flow cytometry techniques to generate orthogonal data and controls for other areas of interrogation
Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects, strong verbal and written communication skills with a high degree of motivation, creativity and collaborative qualities
Previous experience working in a matrixed environment to implement cell-based biomarker assay development and validation employing innovative approaches to support clinical trials
Project management skills to meet critical timelines associated with various activities necessary to support biomarker assessment of clinical samples
Demonstrated track record of critical independent thinking and troubleshooting ability and innovative approaches to solve complex questions is highly desirable
Understanding of disease biology and biomarker approaches in multiple therapeutic area
Work and coordinate with internal stakeholders as well as external partners such as CROs and vendors to support outsourced activities
Familiarity with processes and factors needed to evaluate and qualify CROs
Experience collaborating with CROs to coordinate data and assay transfers, and real time monitoring of assay performance
Familiarity with data qc processes
Experience with complex data analysis software for flow cytometry such as FlowJo, FCS Express, OMIQ.AI, SPADE, viSNE and CITRUS
Experience in cell culture and cell isolation techniques
Experience with other biomarker assay platforms such as immunoassays (ELISA, Luminex, MSD, etc), immunohistochemistry, western blotting and genomics is a plus
Thrive
What you can expect of us
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.
The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities including:
Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
Stock-based long-term incentives
Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible
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