Sr Scientist, Molecular Biology Scientific Data

Amgen Inc. (IR); Thousand Oaks (CA); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Stock-based incentives

Paid time off

Flexible work options

Job summary

Amgen Inc. (IR) in Thousand Oaks, CA seeks a Senior Scientist Business Owner to oversee digital tools, workflows, and data domains for molecular cloning and plasmid design across biologics discovery.

You will translate scientific needs into product priorities, align data models, and partner with scientists and software teams to deliver scalable capabilities for construct design, sequence registration, and related experiments.

Qualifications

• PhD or relevant master/BS with experience in molecular biology and biotech.
• Experience translating scientific needs into data models and workflows.
• Knowledge of protein engineering and plasmid design processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead scientific requirements reviews and coordinate user training.
• Define data models and workflows for construct design and plasmid design.
• Partner with biology, software, and data teams to implement solutions.
• Ensure data quality and readiness for downstream analytics and automation.
• Communicate complex scientific concepts to technical teams.

Skills

Molecular biology

Cloning workflows

Biologics design

Data modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile methodology

Requirements reviews

Scientific communication

Education

Doctorate degree

Masters degree + 2 years experience

Bachelor's degree + 4 years experience

Job description

Career Category Scientific 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.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will serve as the scientific Senior Scientist Business Owner for the digital tools, workflows, and data domain that support molecular cloning and individual construct and plasmid design across biologics discovery.

You will connect scientists with data and technology teams, translating scientific needs into clear product priorities, system requirements, and scalable digital capabilities. A key focus of this role is helping scientists use and improve the tools that support construct design, sequence registration, cloning, and related experimental workflows.

You will bring strong scientific knowledge of plasmid design and biologic molecule formats. The role focuses on workflows for individual construct and plasmid design; combinatorial library design, degenerate-sequence design, and library optimization are outside its scope.

You will also own the scientific data domain for cloning workflows. This includes defining how sequences, components, constructs, vectors, plasmids, molecule formats, and related experiments are represented and connected across scientific applications.

You will partner with adjacent scientific Business Owners, software engineers, business analysts, and data teams on the technical implementation of the data model and system integrations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead meetings with molecular biologists, cloning scientists, protein engineers, and other biologics discovery users, and serve as a knowledgeable point of contact for their scientific workflow and tool-related needs.
• Translate scientific needs into clear data and workflow requirements, and explain complex scientific concepts to software engineers and business analysts.
• Partner with technology teams through design, implementation, testing, release, and adoption to confirm that solutions meet the original scientific need, while maintaining clear communication about scope, decisions, risks, and dependencies.
• Ensure the data model supports workflows for individual construct and plasmid design and accurately represents established and emerging individual-molecule formats.
• Define the scientific relationships and data linkages needed across applications, and partner with data and technology teams on their implementation and maintenance.
• Lead scientific requirements reviews and coordinate user training and acceptance testing using representative workflows, molecule formats, data, and edge cases.
• Coordinate release communication, training, and adoption for new capabilities.
• Define and reinforce standard ways of working for capturing high-quality molecular biology design data.
• Provide scientific context as workflows and molecule formats evolve, helping data and technology teams identify gaps and improve data quality across scientific systems.
• Improve the readiness of molecular biology design data for downstream automation, analytics, and ML/AI-enabled discovery.

What expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

The dynamic professional we seek is a self-starter with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree and 2 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Molecular Biology, Protein Engineering, Structural Biology, or a related scientific field.
• Strong knowledge of molecular cloning and plasmid design workflows, supported by prior hands‑on cloning or individual construct‑design experience in a research or biotechnology environment.
• Expertise in antibody‑based molecule formats, including antibody fragments and multispecifics, with the ability to interpret how domains are organized within and across chains and how features define the resulting architecture.
• Experience translating scientific workflows into informatics tools, structured data, standard processes, and implementation guidance for technical teams.
• Experience owning or stewarding a scientific product, workflow, data domain, roadmap, or feature backlog.
• Working knowledge of scientific data models, controlled terminology, metadata, identifiers, entity relationships, versioning, lineage, and cross‑system data integration.
• Experience with sequence design, construct registration, laboratory informatics, or comparable scientific platforms.
• Experience leading requirements reviews, user acceptance testing, troubleshooting, release readiness, and user adoption.
• Familiarity with agile software delivery and preparing scientific data for analytics or ML/AI use.
• Strong facilitation, prioritization, problem‑solving, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across scientific and technical teams.

What you can expect of us

From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

• 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.

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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 for this role is not guaranteed. 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.

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.

Salary Range 141,984.00USD -192,096.00 USD

Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology. Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people’s lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.

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