Grad Intern - Operations – Process Development (Summer 2027)
Amgen
- Location
- US - California - Thousand Oaks
- Employment
- Internship
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Intern
- H-1B history
- 137 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
- Aug 28, 2026
About this role
Career Category College Job Job Description 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. 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. Grad Intern - Operations – Process Development (Summer 2027) What You Will Do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Operations is one of the three foundational functions at Amgen with a mission to be consistent and efficient in delivering safe and effective medicines around the world. Operations manufactures and delivers Amgen therapeutics to our patients. Made up of five subfunctions: Global Supply Chain, Process Development, Quality, Manufacturing, and Engineering, and spread across several sites, Operations’ aspiration is simple: Ensure patients have access to the Amgen products they need. Every patient, every time. Process Development (PD) is the department within Operations that takes molecules from Research & Development and turns them into products which can be manufactured for therapeutic use. With the support of their hiring manager, the PD intern will complete a technical project in one of the following areas: Drug Substance Technologies, Attribute Sciences, Manufacturing and Clinical Supply, Drug Product Technologies, or Combination Product Operations. The intern will get the chance to be exposed to scientific and/or business processes within Amgen as well as analyze and interpret data into meaningful, business-influencing outcomes, and then communicate this process to their team in a clear and compelling manner. In conjunction with the project work, interns will have the opportunity for professional development through training sessions, an Executive Speaker Series, lab and facilities tours, one-on-one mentoring, and various networking events. Interns will also be able to interact with peers at Amgen-sponsored social events. Example projects from previous internships: Drug Substance Technology – Development of Single-Pass Tangential Flow UF/DF Unit Operation for Production of Ultra-High Concentration Drug Substance Attribute Sciences – Advancement of Activity Assays for Key Residual Host Cell Proteins Drug Product Technology – Using Mass Spectrometry as an In-line Process Analytical Tool for Lyophilization Combination Product Operations – Gathering Patient and Internal Stakeholder Insights to Improve Combination Products and Processes Manufacturing and Clinical Supply – Tactical Project Management Standardization for Commercial Drug Product Tech Transfers Program Eligibility Requirements Must be available to work a full-time schedule. Expected continued enrollment in an accredited college or university following the internship program / co-op Student must be located in the United States for the duration of the internship program What We Expect of You We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The graduate intern we seek is a collaborative team-player who exemplifies the following qualifications: Basic