Principal Scientist - Clinical Pharmacology, Modeling and Simulation

ABOUT AMGEN

Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer. We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. Amgen helped establish the biotechnology industry more than 40 years ago and remains on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today.

Key responsibilities may include:

• Independently developing and implementing analytics workflows to manage and analyse large, complex datasets from diverse sources, including real‑world data.
• Driving innovation through the application of modern data architecture, data science engineering, data modeling, and advanced computing methodologies.
• Planning and executing PK/PD analyses that integrate pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, patient characteristics, and disease biology to optimize dose selection, dosing regimens, and study designs.
• Mentoring and managing junior scientific staff to support modeling and simulation activities and collaborating closely with other modelers to implement data and modeling workflows for innovative pharmacometric projects.
• Collaborating with cross‑functional partners, including observational research, health economics and outcomes research, statistics, and clinical biostatistics teams, to enable platform‑level analytics and modeling workflows.
• Providing scientific thought leadership, guidance, and strategic input, and contributing to the external scientific community through publications and conference presentations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 8 years of clinical pharmacology experience OR Master’s degree and 12 years of clinical pharmacology experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 15 years of clinical pharmacology experience.
• Degree in Statistical and Data sciences, Computer Science, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering, or related fields with equivalent professional degrees (e.g. MD, PharmD), and experience in the life sciences, Biotechnology and/or Pharmaceutical Industry, consulting or post-doctoral training
• Demonstrated experience with scripting and implementing computational algorithms, optimization and model qualification methods, data analytics algorithms and models.
• Hands on experience using a modeling software (e.g. Python, MATLAB, R, Julia, NONMEM, SAS, S-Plus, SQL, etc).
• Excellent interpersonal, technical, and communication skills to lead cross-functional teams
• Previous record of scientific contributions through peer-reviewed articles and external presentations
• Experience in PK/PD modeling and population-based analyses/simulations with established track-record of model-based drug development in multiple therapeutic areas will be an advantage

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

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 with 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 an accommodation.

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