Principal Data Scientist - Optimization

About this role

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.


Principal Data Scientist - Optimization
What You Will Do
We are seeking a Principal Data Scientist, Optimization to join the Forecasting team, within the AI & Data organization. This role will lead the development, validation and deployment of advanced optimization models and decision-support solutions to guide strategic and operational decisions and help Amgen delivers on its “every patient, every time” mandate.


This leader will partner across Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, and Technology to transform Amgen’s approach to operational decision making through rigorous analytical methods. The role is particularly well suited to a creative problem solver with deep expertise in mathematical optimization, including linear, nonlinear and mixed-integer programming, who is excited about applying these methods to hard problems in multi-echelon supply chain design, capacity allocation, and pricing/trade-off optimization.


Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy optimization mode...