Senior Scientist

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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.

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 join our Computational Biology team within the Amgen Center for Research Acceleration by Digital Innovation (CRADI). CRADI is a multi-disciplinary effort embedded within our drug discovery engine that continually uses advancement in genetics, genomics, proteomics, disease modeling, and computational biology to accelerate our pipeline from target inception through drug development. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced scientist with expertise in computational biology techniques and applications. This position will collaborate closely with scientists from various therapeutic areas, including oncology, inflammation, and cardiovascular & metabolic diseases, as well as novel drug modalities such as targeted protein degradation.The successful candidate will have a track record of innovative and collaborative research demonstrated through peer-reviewed publications.

• Apply computational biology technologies for drug target/biomarker discovery, validation of therapeutic hypotheses related to disease biology, and elucidation of mechanisms of action to establish target conviction and guide indication selection.

• Serve as a computational biology expert within a multidisciplinary group of scientists from various therapeutic areas and drug modalities, data scientists and engineers, providing guidance on experimental design and data analysis strategies to advance the preclinical pipelines of drug discovery.

• Find opportunities to introduce novel computational technologies and AI/ML techniques for integrative multi-omics and for modeling complex biological systems such as the tumor microenvironment and intercellular signaling networks.

• Collaborate with engineers and research scientists to develop tools that automate common data processing and visualization tasks.

• Monitor and review emerging computational biology innovations and high-value external knowledge resources and databases spanning prioritized disease areas and technologies.

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a creative problem solver with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree PhD

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• Master’s degree and 3 …