Senior Scientist - Cardiometabolic Disorders

Amgen; Thousand Oaks (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive employee benefits package

Stock-based long-term incentives

Flexible work models

Discretionary annual bonus program

Job summary

Amgen is looking for a Senior Scientist specializing in Cardiometabolic Disorders in Thousand Oaks, California. You will lead drug discovery projects and conduct research to develop innovative medicines for patients with cardiometabolic diseases. The ideal candidate holds a doctorate degree, has significant experience in bone metabolism, and possesses strong communication and leadership skills. Join Amgen to impact patient lives while growing your career in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in bone metabolism and metabolic disease.
• Ability to perform in vitro and/or in vivo experiments.
• Strong ideation capabilities in drug discovery.

Responsibilities

• Identify therapeutic targets for cardiometabolic disease.
• Design and conduct pharmacology studies.
• Communicate results through presentations.

Skills

Critical thinking

Excellent communication skills

Independent study design

Leadership

Collaboration

Education

Doctorate degree (PhD)

PharmD

MD with relevant post-doc

Master’s degree with 3 years of experience

Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of experience

Tools

Immunoblotting

RT-qPCR

Statistical methods

Cell-signaling analysis techniques

Job description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do. Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity‑related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives. Our award‑winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Senior Scientist – Cardiometabolic Disorders

What You Will Do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be an ideator and drug hunter and are expected to conduct biology research and identify therapeutic targets in cardiometabolic disease that are tractable and offer the opportunity of delivering disease‑modifying potential in patients. The proposal and advancement of drug discovery programs will be based on a sound and compelling scientific rationale that may include validation from human genetics and/or clinical studies. Critical thinking, ingenuity, the ability to independently design mechanistic studies and conduct reproducible in vivo and in vitro pharmacology studies with high technical proficiency, excellent communication skills, integrity and the ability to work in a multi‑disciplinary environment will be critical for this role. You will initially work at the bench and/or vivarium conducting in vivo and/or in vitro preclinical studies with a focus on osteoporosis and metabolic disease. Over time, you will also demonstrate strong leadership skills and the ability to manage a team of scientists conducting drug discovery research. As part of the team, you will also support other new and existing drug discovery programs in the department to help advance the best assets in the Cardiometabolic Disorders portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Conceptualizing and proposing therapeutic targets for the treatment of bone disease and cardiometabolic disease
• Designing and performing in vitro and/or in vivo experiments
• Independently performing data analysis and interpreting results
• Communicating scientific results through written and oral presentations
• Collaborating with teams from other functions in the company to advance therapeutic candidates
• Documenting studies in electronic laboratory notebooks and study reports
• Advising colleagues in areas of expertise

What We Expect Of You

The Senior Scientist we seek is a professional with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree PhD
• PharmD
• MD (and relevant post‑doc where applicable)
• Master’s degree and 3 years of experience in bone metabolism and bone disease
• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience in bone metabolism and bone disease

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD with postdoctoral experience in bone metabolism and metabolic disease (industry experience is strongly preferred)
• Strong target ideation capabilities and critical thinking to enable discovery of innovative medicines for patients
• Exceptional in vivo and/or in vitro pharmacology skills and capability to independently design, implement and analyze studies with proper controls and generate reproducible high‑quality data
• Technical mastery of general molecular biology and cell‑signaling analysis techniques including immunoblotting, immunocytochemistry, RT‑qPCR, immunoprecipitation, and ELISA
• Basic knowledge of statistical methods applied in a consistent and rigorous manner to all data sets generated
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and interpersonal skills that enable effective team interactions and communication of key data to all key stakeholders
• A strong ability to collaborate cross‑functionally in a multidisciplinary environment is critical
• Capability to deliver high quality manuscripts, posters and presentations for internal and external peer‑reviewed publication and conference attendance
• Understanding of human genetics and genomic data mining for target identification are a plus
• A high level of commitment to ensuring data reproducibility and data integrity

What you can expect from us

• A 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
• Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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Application deadline

Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.

Sponsorship

Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

Equal Opportunity Employment

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease. Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other basis protected by applicable law. 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 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.