Description
Job Description
We are a global healthcare leader with a diversified portfolio of innovative medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. The Discovery Informatics group is seeking a highly motivated and skilled software engineer with strong data science skills to support the development, maintenance and optimization of drug discovery and development workflows. The position will involve regular interactions with scientists as part of a cross-regional and multidisciplinary network of researchers, computational biologists, cheminformaticians, data engineers, data scientists and software engineers.
In this role, you will
- Guide the development, optimization and scaling up of pipelines and applications across different areas of drug discovery and development
- Contribute to one or several small software development and AI projects
- Prototyping, test and validate novel scientific solutions algorithms, machine learning models, applications, pipelines and dashboards
- Extract and aggregate data from various data sources
- Process, integrate, visualize and model data
- Build end-to-end pipeline of data processing on regular basis
Required Experience And Skills
- MSc or PhD degree in computer science, software engineering, data science or related field
- Good problem-solving skills and high professional standards with strong ability to prioritize and work under pressure
- Strong communication skills and ability to simplify and explain complex problems to data scientists and software engineers
- Programming skills in a subset of the following Python, Java/C++, R/Shiny, Matlab, JS Linux/Unix, SQL and versioning control e.g. Git
- Solid knowledge and hands-on experience developing machine and deep learning models via Python (Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow etc)
We offer
- Challenging career, trainings, conferences and meet up sessions organized internally and externally
- Learning opportunities, rotation program, internal transfer move options
- Professional growth based on performance
- Innovative and flexible working environment
- Wide range of benefits
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Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.
Employee Status
Project Temps (Fixed Term)
Relocation
VISA Sponsorship
Travel Requirements
Flexible Work Arrangements
Hybrid
Shift
Valid Driving License
Hazardous Material(s)
Required Skills
Data Engineering, Design Applications, Information Security, Machine Learning, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing
Preferred Skills
Job Posting End Date
08/29/2024
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Job Posting End Date 08/29/2024
A job posting is effective until 11 59 59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.
Requisition ID R301762
