JOB REQUIREMENTS

Animal Health IT Advanced Analytics team in MSD is looking for a part-time junior data scientist to join our team. Our team serves Animal Health across all business areas: manufacturing, finance, R&D and development, commercial and supply chain.
We are looking for a student who will work on Machine Learning and Econometrics projects under the guidance of more experienced data scientists. The projects may require optimizing ML pipelines and Python codebase, as well as applying statistical knowledge of hypothesis testing. The position is a good fit for talented master’s and PhD students in computer science, AI, mathematics, statistics, econometrics, physics, or other related technical programs with a strong emphasis on statistical theory and modelling.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION MINIMUM REQUIREMENT

• Studying computer science, AI, mathematics, statistics, econometrics, physics, or related fields. Master’s and PhD students are strongly preferred.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

• Passion for mathematics and good-quality code.
• Experience with MLops platforms (eg., Dataiku, Databricks) is an advantage.
• Desired Aspirations Towards Following Experience and Skills:
• Familiarity with Python language required, experience in R is an advantage.
• The ability to propose and implement a ML model, method, or algorithm is a major advantage.
• Knowledge in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, AI, econometrics, statistics, mathematical analysis, modelling, statistical inference, and optimization.
• Broad communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to make presentations for business, to interpret and use the analytics results within the real business context.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to work with incomplete or imperfect data.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a globally dispersed team.

WHO WE ARE …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

• Analyse and understand research problems.
• Implement new solutions and models.
• Present ideas, progress, and results.
• Analyse and understand the existing code base in Python.
• Work with multiple collaboration DevOps tools such as JIRA, Git, and Confluence.
• Further responsibilities might be related to common data science, including exploratory data analysis, running standard statistical models and tests, and drawing high-level conclusions from the data.