Senior Data Scientist

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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. 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.

Senior Data Scientist

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will play a key role in a regulatory submission content automation initiative which will modernize and digitize the regulatory submission process, positioning Amgen as a leader in regulatory innovation. The initiative uses state-of-the-art technologies, including Generative AI, Structured Content Management, and integrated data to automate the creation, review, and approval of regulatory content.

• Develop AI/ML/LLM models to serve the regulatory writing group

• Create reusable and effective prompts for LLMs such as OpenAI GPT4, Anthropic Claude etc

• Build evaluation metrics and frameworks for prompt engineering

• Collaborate closely with business key customers to discuss requirements, ensuring alignment between technical capabilities and business objectives, while effectively communicating any technical limitations or constraints.

• Work with data and software engineers on data quality assessment, data cleansing and data ingestion of unstructured documents into vector databases

• Build retrieval algorithms to identify relevant data

• Work in technical teams in development, deployment, and application of models into production tools.

• Generate reports, annotated code, and other projects artifacts to document, archive, and communicate your work and outcomes.

• Share and discuss findings with team members practicing SAFe Agile delivery model.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Scientist with a strong MLOps background and experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) to join our team. You will play a pivotal role in building and scaling our machine learning models and LLM applications from development to production. Your expertise in both machine learning and operations will be critical in creating efficient and reliable pipelines and applications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate Degree OR

• Master’s degree with 4 to 6 years of experience in Software Engineering, Data Science or Machine Learning Engineering OR

• Bachelor’s degree with 6 to 8 years of experience in Software Engineering, Data Science or Machine Learning Engineering OR

• Diploma with 10 to 12 years of experience in Software Engineering, Data Science or Machine Learning Engineering

• Experience with building and evaluating LLM applications

• Good foundation in machine learning algorithms and techniques

• Proficiency in Python and relevant ML libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated skill in the use of applied analytics, descriptive statistics, feature extraction and predictive analytics in healthcare/biotech

• Knowledge of NLP techniques for text analysis and sentiment analysis

• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

Soft Skills:

• Initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems.

• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements, and estimating efforts.

• Excellent analytical and solving skills.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams

• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.

• Ability to handle multiple priorities successfully.

• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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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. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

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.