Amgen

Associate Data Scientist

Amgen

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: DeerfieldCaliforniaIllinoisUnited States

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Salary

💰 $86,120 - $115,586 per year

About the role

  • Using and developing data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence capabilities across Amgen’s commercial organization
  • Transforming business, medical, or scientific questions into analytical ones and mapping out solutions, delivery, and impact
  • Identifying business needs and proposing potential analytical approaches for solutions
  • Building high-performance algorithms, prototypes, predictive models, and proof of concepts using Python or R with reliable performance, interpretability, and action-ability
  • Effectively communicating cross-functionally with stakeholders to develop appropriate methodology to answer specific business questions
  • Helping further build the team, including by contributing ideas and standard methodologies and keeping abreast of developments in industry and academia
  • Communicating effectively and influencing a diverse set of technical, scientific, medical, and business constituents at the functional and executive levels
  • Creating powerful stories in PowerPoint, with knowledge of MS Office Suite (Excel and PowerPoint)
  • Assuring compliance with regulatory, security, and privacy requirements as it relates to data assets

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree OR Associate’s degree and 4 years of experience in a quantitative field OR High school diploma / GED and 6 years of experience in a quantitative field
  • Experience in designing, evaluating, and applying a variety of supervised and unsupervised machine learning models to drive business value
  • Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, and/or R
  • Experience with data science and machine learning-related libraries in Python (Pandas, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, NumPy, PyTorch, MLib, etc)
  • Highly motivated with eagerness to learn and adapt to new subjects
  • Technical aptitude with strong logical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
  • Excellent organization/planning skills and talent for managing many large and complex datasets
  • Ability to collaborate and influence business partners and other IS resources to drive analytic projects end-to-end
  • Ability to communicate analysis in a clear, precise, and impactful manner
  • Familiarity with the modern data stack: distributed computing tools (Spark, Hive, etc.), cloud computing environments, and source code control technologies (e.g. Git)
  • Passion for learning and staying on top of current developments in data science
  • Biotech / Pharma industry experience
Benefits
  • A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions
  • Group medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Life and disability insurance
  • 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
  • Flexible work models where possible
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
data sciencemachine learningartificial intelligencePythonRSQLsupervised machine learningunsupervised machine learningpredictive modelingdata analysis
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingdecision-makingorganizationplanninginfluenceadaptabilitymotivationcreativity