Horizon
Biotechnology
See how your profile stacks up against this role.
We compared the job requirements to your profile to show where you're strong and where you fall short.
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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. 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.
Engineer, AI Developer Platforms
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role , We are seeking an Engineer, AI Developer Platforms, to help Amgen explore how emerging AI coding tools can improve everyday software delivery in a safe, practical way. You will work with engineers in representative codebases to use tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and other AI-enabled coding tools for prototyping, testing and documentation. You will contribute to evaluations, capture findings, and help create reusable guidance. This role is for an engineer with strong fundamentals and curiosity about AI-assisted development; it is not a model-training or traditional ML-pipeline role.
Use AI coding tools in representative codebases to understand code, implement small changes, debug issues, create tests and improve documentation.
Contribute to structured evaluations of AI coding tools across common engineering workflows; document observations, results and limitations.
Build small prototypes, scripts or reference examples that demonstrate practical AI-assisted development workflows.
Validate AI-assisted output using tests, code review and established engineering practices; raise quality, security, data-handling or reliability concerns with the team.
Work with engineers, product partners and platform teams to gather feedback and improve developer workflows.
Help maintain reusable prompts, repository guidance, workflow templates and onboarding materials, and share practical learnings with the team.
Support and deliver practical training and enablement sessions for development teams on approved AI-enabled development practices, including effective prompting, code validation, testing, secure use and human review.
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a person with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:
Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field
OR
Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field
Relevant certifications in cloud platforms, software development, cybersecurity, developer tools or generative AI are a plus.
Hands-on experience writing code in at least one modern programming language, such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript.
Foundation in debugging, source control, automated testing and code review.
Experience with, or strong interest in, AI coding assistants and a willingness to learn how to verify and improve generated output.
Ability to learn unfamiliar codebases, follow established engineering standards and document work clearly.
Preferred Skills:
Experience with OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, or comparable AI-assisted development tools.
Exposure to cloud, developer tooling, internal platform or automation projects.
Familiarity with secure development, regulated environments or responsible AI practices.
.Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare or another regulated industry.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting and attention-to-detail skills.
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.
In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.
As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.
Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
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.
Salary Range
95,949.70 CAD - 129,814.30 CADAfter you apply, unlock the direct contact details of the people who actually make the call. A quick follow-up makes you 5x more likely to land an interview.
Marcus Rivera
Chief Revenue Officer
Conexa Saúde
Emory Healthcare
PerfectServe
KMS Technology, Inc.
Horizon
Horizon
Horizon
Horizon
