Associate Scientist - Scientific Documentation & Enablement Specialist

Career Category

Research

Job Description

HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission, to serve patients, drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together, researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.

Scientific Documentation & Enablement Specialist (Large Molecule Discovery Informatics)

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital and exciting role, you will serve as a Scientific Documentation & Enablement Specialist who will support the adoption and effective use of complex scientific and informatics workflows across Large Molecule Discovery (LMD).  This role serves as a bridge between technical development teams and scientific end users by creating clear, accurate, and accessible documentation that guides research users and new hires.  The specialist will translate multifaceted workflow steps, decision points, system interactions, and expected outputs into practical guidance that supports consistent day-to-day execution.

Working closely with scientists, informaticians, software engineers, and workflow owners, this individual will develop and maintain user-facing documentation, quick reference guides (QRGs), training materials, and workflow guidance that help researchers understand how to complete complex processes accurately and efficiently. The role will also help establish documentation standards and best practices that promote consistency, usability, and adoption across the LMD informatics ecosystem.

This position is ideal for someone with a scientific background who enjoys organizing complex workflow information and communicating it in a way that is intuitive, actionable, and meaningful to research users.

In this role, your core responsibilities include:

Develop clear, scientist-facing documentation for AI, informatics, and digital research workflows across Large Molecule Discovery.

Create QRGs, user guides, SOPs, FAQs, workflow documentation, training materials, and onboarding resources that support effective technology adoption.

Translate complex technical concepts, workflow logic, software functionality, and AI capabilities into practical guidance for scientific users.

Partner with scientific, informatics, data, and technology teams to validate content, communicate platform changes, and support integration into routine operations.

Establish and maintain documentation repositories, standards, templates, terminology, governance processes, and review cycles to ensure content is accurate, current, consistent, and discoverable.

Collaborate with technical teams to validate documentation content and ensure scientific accuracy and compliance with organizational standards

Gather user feedback to improve documentation usability, adoption, and overall user experience.

Support change management and broader enablement initiatives that drive the adoption of digital, AI-enabled, and informatics capabilities across LMD.

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is a subject matter expert with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Scientific Communications, Technical Writing, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or a related field and relevant professional experience

Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of directly related experience

OR Master’s degree and 2+ years of directly related experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in developing technical documentation, user guides, SOPs, or training materials for scientific or technical audiences.

Able to simplify complex scientific workflows, software platforms, data tools, AI applications, and digital research technologies without compromising accuracy.

Understand biotechnology, pharmaceutical research, biologics discovery, computational biology, and related scientific disciplines.

Support technology adoption, onboarding, user enablement, training programs, and organizational change initiatives.

Use documentation management systems, collaboration platforms, and knowledge repositories such as Confluence, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Notion, or similar tools

Create workflow diagrams, process maps, instructional content, presentations, workshops, and visual learning materials.

Communicate effectively with scientific, technical, and business stakeholders in matrixed environments.

Manage multiple documentation and enablement initiatives while working in Agile or cross-functional project delivery environments.

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What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities including:

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 and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns

Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

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Application deadline

Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.

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 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.

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