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Senior Quality Engineer
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A Product Quality Engineer evaluates and tests products and manufacturing systems, to ensure that products are produced that meet quality and performance standards as well as safety and regulatory requirements. Develops product quality standards and monitors production and product testing.
$97,977 / year median in Massachusetts
+2% projected growth
Job Description
Senior Quality Engineer Amgen
- 4.0 Cambridge, MA Job Details Full-time $118,435
- $140,781 a year 2 hours ago Benefits Disability insurance Health insurance Dental insurance Flexible spending account Vision insurance Retirement plan Qualifications Incident investigation techniques for hazard identification Regulatory inspections Version control Investigations regulatory compliance Document control experience within pharmaceutical industry Medical device testing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) implementation ISO standards Quality control statistical data analysis Preventive action implementation Design of experiments Statistical Process Control Production deviation management Six Sigma methodology implementation Statistical analysis for research TrackWise Engineering process optimization Data reporting Reliability analysis Corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) Internal investigations Quality reports Minitab Collaboration with product development teams Records management Production validation processes Quality risk management Quality assurance standard operating procedures Design failure mode and effects analysis (DFMEA) Compliance documentation Full Job Description US•Massachusetts•
Cambridge JOB ID:
R-244950 LOCATION
US- Massachusetts
- Cambridge
WORK LOCATION TYPE
Flex Commuter / HybridDATE POSTED
Jul. 19, 2026CATEGORY:
QualitySALARY RANGE
- 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.
Senior Quality Engineer Duties:
Provide Quality technical expertise, Quality oversight, and a single point of Quality contact for combination and non-combination products associated with Combination Product Operations activities; Ensure that the Quality Systems in place for Amgen products are appropriately scoped and followed; Provide quality oversight for device and combination-product related design controls per FDA (Food and Drug Administration) CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) 820.30 and 21 CFR Part 4, CAPA (Corrective and Preventative Actions), RCA (Root Cause Analysis), Change Controls, product complaints investigations, and other assignments as given; Manage low to moderate complexity programs such as automating team activities and combination product commercial quality oversight with minimal supervision; Collaborate with the Senior Manager Quality Engineering, COPQ (Combination Product Operations Quality) Commercial and be a liaison with other groups in Amgen as needed to support programs; and Provide quality guidance for documentation associated with device and combination product activities. May telecommute.Requirements:
Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or in a quality-related occupation. Position requires 3 years of experience in the following: 1. Owning and managing Design History Files, Design Trace Matrices, Control Plans, and design documentation for commercial medical devices and combination products; 2. Providing Quality review and approval for both Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and non-Good Manufacturing Practices (non-GMP) technical records to ensure compliance with regulatory and internal requirements; 3. Leading and executing quality oversight for Design Verification & Validation (V&V) activities, including protocol development, test execution oversight, data analysis, statistical evaluations, and final reporting; 4. Performing Quality review of technical design documentation, including drawings, specifications, requirements, protocols, and reports, to support compliant design and commercialization of medical devices and combination products; 5. Reviewing and approving Risk Management Files per ISO 14971, including hazard analysis, Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), usability risk assessments, and risk evaluations for changes and deviations for drug-device combination products; 6. Providing Quality oversight for commercialized drug delivery systems by supporting reliability modeling, performance trending, engineering studies, and design transfer activities; 7. Reviewing and approving Installation Qualification (IQ), Operational Qualification (OQ), and Performance Qualification (PQ) validation documentation; 8. Reviewing and approving process capability studies, Statistical Process Control (SPC) programs, Design of Experiments (DOE); and support troubleshooting of nonconformances, Nonconformance Reports (NCRs), and Material Review Board (MRB) investigations; 9. Ensuring compliance with applicable global regulations and quality standards, includingISO 13485, ISO 14971, 21 CFR
Part 820 (Quality System Regulation), 21 CFR Part 4 (Combination Products), and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP); 10. Responsibilities include executing Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA), managing Change Control and Deviations, developing and maintaining Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and driving continuous Quality Management System (QMS) improvements using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies; 11. Utilizing quality documentation systems—including CDOCS, TrackWise, BioConnect, ServiceNow, and Smartsheet—to manage document routing and approval workflows, support document lifecycle activities, ensure proper version control and archival, fulfill vendor and supplier documentation requirements, and review Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) deliverables for compliance; 12. Supporting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspections, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) / Medical Device Single Audit Program (MDSAP) audits, prepare technical justification packages, and provide documentation and evidence for audit readiness; 13. Analyzing quality and engineering data using Minitab for Statistical Process Control (SPC), Design of Experiments (DOE), and root-cause methodologies (8 Disciplines (8D), Root Cause Analysis (RCA)), including reliability trending and statistical evaluations; and 14. Collaborating with Research and Development (R D), Regulatory Affairs (RA), Quality Control (QC), Manufacturing, Project Management, suppliers, Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs), and external partners to support commercial lifecycle management and product quality.Contact:
Interested candidates please apply via https://careers.amgen.com/en/search-jobs and search for job #R-244950
Job type: Full Time position. The annual salary for this position in the U.S. is $118,435.00- 140,781.