What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist position at Amgen?
HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?
Youve 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 missionto serve patientsdrives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the worlds leading biotechnology companies, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Come do your best work alongside other innovative, driven professionals in this meaningful role.
Data Scientist - US Remote
LiveWhat you will do
Lets do this. Lets change the world. In this vital role you will contribute to this mission by initiating Artificial Intelligence use cases, delivering solutions with measurable impact, catalyzing the adoption of solutions, and generally helping de-risk AI innovation across the company.
Core Responsibilities for the Role:Work closely and multi-functionally with an overt sense of ownership.
Fuel innovation and create initiatives by bringing to bear an understanding of the biopharmaceutical, healthcare, and technology ecosystems.
Be a technical guide and career development mentor to junior data scientists and machine learning engineers in a formal or matrixed fashion.
Transform business, medical, or scientific questions into analytical ones and map out solutions, delivery, and impact.
Communicate effectively and influence a diverse set of technical, scientific, medical, and business constituents at the functional and executive levels.
Employ unsupervised and supervised techniques to develop predictive or prescriptive models with reliable performance, interpretability, and actionability.
Develop or lead the deployment of generative models for a variety of applications.
Help further build the team, including by contributing ideas and standard methodologies, and keeping abreast of developments in industry and academia.
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek will have these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:Doctorate degree in a quantitative field;
Or
Masters degree and 3 years of experience in a quantitative field
Or
Bachelors degree and 5 years of experience in a quantitative field
Or
Associate degree and 10 years of experience in a quantitative field
Or
High school diploma/GED and 12 years of experience in a quantitative field.
Advanced degree in a quantitative field (MS, PhD, or equivalent experience).
Experience in designing and building a variety of supervised and unsupervised machine learning models.
Proficiency in the use of one (or more) of these methodologies with demonstrated and interpretable insight and impact: generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), Gen AI prompt engineering, deep learning, natural language processing, transformer models, large language models.
Experience in causal modeling and demonstrated evidence of the use thereof to inform decision making in scientific, medical, or business settings.
Experience with Healthcare data, e.g., clinical trial data, electronic medical records, and insurance claims; or Biosciences data, e.g., protein or small molecule data, or bioinformatics; or Biopharmaceutical manufacturing.
Strong proficiency in Python and experience in SQL.
Experience with cloud computing technologies, e.g., AWS, Spark.
Experience with source code control technologies, e.g., Git.
Full stack experience with building and deploying modeling pipelines.
Experience leading teams of data scientists and machine learning engineers.
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 annual base salary range for this opportunity in the U.S. is $135,935-163,269 USD
In addition to the base salary, 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
for a career that defies imagination
Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.
careers.amgen.comJoin Us
If you're seeking a career where you can truly make a difference in the lives of others, a career where you can work at the absolute forefront of biotechnology with the top minds in the field, you'll find it at Amgen.
Amgen, a biotechnology pioneer, discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. Our medicines have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancers, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses.
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 but compete intensely to win. Together, we live the Amgen values as we 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, 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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