POST DOCTORAL – Amgen Internships Washington

Position Title: POST DOCTORAL

Company: Amgen

Location: Washington, DC, USA

Job Description:

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.

Responsibilities:

• Develops technology to collect and analyze reaction and kinetic analysis for complex organic transformations
• Champions innovative applications of novel analytical techniques and data analysis through use of process analytical technologies (PAT) and chemo-metric software
• Collaborates with analytical chemists, therapeutic discovery, and purification technology teams to apply these technologies across the early and late stage portfolio.
• Provides significant contributions to drug substance development teams (e.g., product and process development teams) by providing technical updates, documentation, data interpretation, technical recommendations, etc.
• Serves as a technical authority and keeps current development of new approaches to reaction analysis, organic chemistry and applications of process technology in pharmaceutical development including literature and technology development
• Improves the technical or scientific capabilities of the department and works with team members to resolve scientific/technical issues
• Works on documentation to support IP filings, publications, and presentations on technical developments
• Delivers processes amenable to current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) operations

Requirements:

• Doctorate degree in Organic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Synthetic Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
• Track record of scientific accomplishments in the field of organic chemistry, kinetic analysis, and reaction engineering
• Works well in a multi-disciplinary team of chemists, analysts, purification scientists, and engineers
• Ability to champion new technologies and their applications to reaction monitoring and kinetic analysis
• Familiar with kinetic modeling software (e.g. DynoChem, gPROMS, MatLab)
• Familiarity with the use of design of experiments (DoE) and Process Analytical Technology (PAT) techniques
• Familiarity with laboratory automation, data analysis and visualization techniques and tools
• Highly motivated individual, who takes initiative and has strong interpersonal, presentation, written and verbal skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to effectively work in a fast-paced team environment
• Familiarity with Environmental Health and Safety expectations for chemical laboratories
• Knowledge of basic office and chemistry software including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ChemDraw, SciFinder, and electronic laboratory notebooks