About the position
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.
Responsibilities
- Possesses strong rapid prototyping skills and can quickly translate concepts into working code.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
- Take ownership of complex software projects from conception to deployment.
- Manage software delivery scope, risk, and timeline.
- Contribute to both front-end and back-end development using cloud technology.
- Develop innovative solutions leveraging advanced data-driven algorithms and computational techniques.
- Define and implement robust software architectures on the cloud, AWS preferred.
- Conduct code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.
- Create and maintain documentation on software architecture, design, deployment, disaster recovery, and operations.
- Identify and resolve technical challenges effectively.
- Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements.
- Work closely with product team, business team, and other stakeholders.
Requirements
- Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree and 2 years of software development experience.
- Or Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of software development experience.
- Or Associate’s degree and 8 years of software development experience.
- Or High school diploma / GED and 10 years of software development experience.
Nice-to-haves
- Hands on experience with various cloud services, understand pros and cons of various cloud service in well architected cloud design principles.
- Hands on experience with software development.
- Proficient in programming language Python (preferred), JavaScript, SQL/NoSQL.
- Strong problem solving, analytical skills; Ability to learn quickly; Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experienced with API integration, serverless, microservices architecture.
- Experience in SQL/NOSQL database, vector database for large language models.
- Experience with Web site development, understand of web site localization processes.
- Experience with popular large language models.
- Experience with Langchain or llamaIndex framework for language models; Experience with prompt engineering, model fine tuning.
- Experience with DevOps CICD build and deployment pipeline.
- Experience with design patterns, data structures, test-driven development.
- Knowledge of latest techniques for text analysis and sentiment analysis.
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, 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.
- Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements.
