Junior Software Developer in Bioinformatics - Part time for a student

at  MSD

JOB REQUIREMENTS

We’re looking for students of Czech Universities, who are interested in a long-term collaboration with MSD.
Did you always want to work in a company where your work can have a real impact? Do you enjoy working in an international environment with lots of room for personal development? Are you ready to join a company where we cherish Diversity and Inclusion and the wellbeing of our employees?
Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

WHAT SHOULD YOU KNOW / HAVE:

• Current student of bachelor, masters or doctorate program
• Strong programming skills
• Strong knowledge of Python
• Familiarity with UNIX systems

WE WILL BE HAPPY IF YOU KNOW ANY OF THESE:

• Simple web app development (such as Dash, Streamlit, Gradio, Flask, Django)
• Data visualization (Matplotlib, Plotly)
• Machine learning (scikit-learn), deep learning (pytorch, tensorflow)
• Frontend development (HTML, JavaScript)
• Docker
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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.

• Develop simple web applications for visualization of scientific data
• Leverage cutting-edge computing resources (AWS, internal high-performance cluster) for executing computational tools on bioinformatics or cheminformatics datasets
• Contribute to real-world applications of state-of-the-art technologies (machine learning, deep learning, NLP) on problems in bioinformatics or cheminformatics
• Meet motivated and technically-skilled colleagues who will be happy to coach you on different topics from the industry
• Establish relationships with scientists from different MSD laboratories around the World, with opportunities for short-term company visit abroad as part of your future career in MSD