Grad Intern – Computational Chemistry (summer 2027)

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.

What You Will Do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. We are looking for a summer intern to join the Computational Chemistry team in the summer of 2027. Computational chemistry plays a crucial role in our drug discovery engine, speeding up our pipeline from target inception to drug development. As a member of our team, you will develop and deploy tools that will help guide the successful discovery of small molecule therapeutics.

In this role, you will

• Develop and implement computational chemistry methods to compute DFT energies and molecular descriptors
• Use these descriptors to train and evaluate AI/ML models that support the Design-Make-Test- Analyze cycle in producing the next generation of therapeutic molecules
• Work collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams to ensure the successful execution and implementation of the project
• Review and summarize project-related literature
• Communicate findings and progress effectively to team members
• Clearly document methods and analyses to allow reproducible research
• 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 dynamic professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

Amgen requires that all individuals applying for a grad internship or a co-op assignment at Amgen must meet the following criteria:

18 years or older

Graduated with a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university

Currently enrolled in an MBA program for an MBA internship OR a Master’s program for a Master’s internship OR a PharmD program for a PharmD internship OR Ph.D. for a PhD internship from an accredited college or university and completion of the first year of MBA OR Master’s OR Pharm D OR Ph.D. program before the internship starts

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Computational Chemistry, Computational Biophysics, Cheminformatics or a similarly quantitative field
• Working knowledge of conformational sampling tools, DFT calculations and machine learning
• Familiar with QM software such as Gaussian, Jaguar, Psi4 or GAMESS and visualization tools such as pymol or VMD