Sr. Associate Data Scientist Full-time

Data Scientist

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.

Role Description

The Data Scientist is responsible for developing and implementing AI-driven solutions to enhance cybersecurity measures within the organization. This role involves leveraging data science techniques to analyze security data, detect threats, and enhance security processes with generative AI and other analytic capabilities. The Data Scientist will work closely with cybersecurity teams to identify data-driven automation opportunities which strengthen the organization's security posture.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop analytics to address security concerns, enhancements, and capabilities to improve the organization's security posture.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to translate security-focused algorithms into effective solutions.
• Work in technical teams in development, deployment, and application of applied analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics.
• Perform exploratory and targeted data analyses using descriptive statistics and other methods to identify security patterns and anomalies.
• Design and implement security-focused analytics pipelines leveraging MLOps practices, generative AI, and agent-based architectures (e.g., autonomous agents for threat detection and response).
• Collaborate with data engineers on data quality assessment, data cleansing, and the development of security-related data pipelines.
• Contribute to data engineering efforts to refine data infrastructure and ensure scalable, efficient security analytics.
• Generate reports, annotated code, and other project artifacts to document, archive, and communicate your work and outcomes.
• Share and discuss findings with team members practicing SAFe Agile delivery model.

Functional Skills

Basic Qualifications:

• Master's degree OR Bachelor's degree and 3 to 5 years of experience with one or more analytic software tools or languages (e.g., SAS, SPSS, R, Python)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with one or more analytic software tools or languages (e.g., SAS, SPSS, R, Python)
• Experience applying generative AI and agent-based systems to cybersecurity use cases (e.g., automated threat detection, response orchestration, and security analysis)
• Demonstrated skill in the use of applied analytics, descriptive statistics, feature extraction and predictive analytics on industrial datasets
• Strong foundation in machine learning algorithms and techniques
• Experience in statistical techniques and hypothesis testing, experience with regression analysis, clustering and classification

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Proficiency in Python and relevant ML libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn)
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills; Ability to learn quickly; Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience with data engineering and pipeline development
• Experience in analyzing time-series data for forecasting and trend analysis
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Experience with Databricks platform for data analytics and MLOps
• Experience working in Product teams environment
• Experience working in an Agile environment

Professional Certifications :

• Any AWS Developer certification (preferred)
• Any Python and ML certification (preferred)
• Any SAFe Agile certification (preferred)

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 troubleshooting skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully.
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals

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.