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Postdoctoral

Job Description

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.

Postdoctoral Fellow: Industrial Automation

Live

What you will do

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

The Amgen Postdoctoral Program is committed to providing future scientists with an enriched environment to inspire innovation that will contribute to the development of human therapeutics.

In this role the candidate will work as part of Amgen Process Development’s Manufacturing Technology Advancement Group, based at our corporate headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California.

The MTA team is tasked with developing new manufacturing technologies, with a special focus on the automated inspection of biopharmaceutical products.

Working with the MTA team and strategic partners, the candidate will explore the use of a combination of contemporary technologies to assist development of new inspection platforms, including, but not limited to industrial robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, laser-based metrology and computational modelling.

The MTA group is a diverse, multi-disciplinary team made up of mechanical and electrical engineers, chemical engineers, physicists, computer scientists and manufacturing experts. The candidate will have the full support of the team in developing and realizing their experiments and will have full access to our industry-leading automation development laboratory. The candidate will have ample opportunity to learn about our industry and add to their portfolio of skills.

It is expected that the candidate will have the opportunity to develop working relationships with other relevant teams throughout the company. The MTA group is a global team with members located across Amgen’s international manufacturing sites. At our Thousand Oaks HQ the candidate will have exposure to our labs, pilot plants and clinical manufacturing facilities.

It is also expected that over the course of this position the candidate will contribute to both peer-reviewed scientific publications and Amgen’s portfolio of intellectual property.

This postdoctoral assignment is intended to last for 2 years.

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 an individual with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Ph.D. at the time of appointment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Physics or related discipline.

• Proven track record in publishing high-quality research in respected academic journals or conferences

• Hands-on experience with hardware design and prototyping

• Programming proficiency in Python

• Experience or interest in one or more of the following domains:

  • Industrial automation/robotics

  • Computer vision and image processing

  • Computational modelling (e.g. Ansys, COMSOL, MATLAB)

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

Apply now

for a career that defies imagination

Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.

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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.

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.

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Salary Range

76,773.00 USD - 87,171.00 USD