Senior Scientist, Biostatistics, Early Development Statistics Full-time NEW

Job Title

Our company is a global healthcare leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. Our company success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare. Our company is on a quest for cures and is committed to being the world's premier, most research-intensive biopharmaceutical company. Our company Research Laboratories is a true scientific research facility of tomorrow and will take our company leading pharmaceutical R&D expertise to create breakthrough science that radically changes the way we approach serious diseases.

In BARDS (Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences), a distinguished department within our company's renowned Research and Development division, quantitative scientists, in partnership with other subject matter experts, apply state-of-the art scientific methodologies and tools to enable the discovery, development, regulatory approval, manufacturing, and marketing of medical drugs and vaccines for the benefit of patients and global human health.

Responsibilities:

• Provide data analytics solutions for real-world tasks, with a focus on complex data types such as histology mages, signals, and text.
• Utilize modern statistical and AI/ML methods, including deep learning and generative AI.
• Apply sound scientific principles and data analytic methods to Pharmaceutical Research and Development (R&D) projects.
• Understand customer requests and effectively communicate analysis results to customers.

Primary Activities:

• Implement and apply machine learning and statistical analysis pipelines for complex data types such as digital pathology images
• Serve as data analytic representative in cross-functional teams for pharmaceutical R&D.
• Collaborate with people from diverse background and expertise, including research scientists, clinical scientists, regulatory experts, IT specialists, etc.
• Identify opportunities to add value to different phase of pharmaceutical R&D projects.
• Identify potential data and data-analysis related problems, propose solutions, and implement them.
• Analyzes data and interpret results.
• Communicate analysis results effectively to audience with diverse background and expertise through both oral presentations and written reports.
• Provide responses to data and analysis related queries from research scientists, clinical scientists, and regulatory agencies.
• Engage in AI/ML and statistical methodology research.

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Ph.D. or equivalent degree in Statistics/Biostatistics/Data Science/Computer Science or related disciplines. OR
• Master's degree with a minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Familiarity with analyzing complex data types such as histology images.
• Solid knowledge of AI/Machine Learning and statistical principles and methodologies.
• Demonstrated strong programming skills, particularly in Python and R languages.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work well both independently and collaboratively.
• Demonstrated interest in methodology research and the application of novel methods to real-world problems.
• Ability to learn, be proactive and motivated, and consistently focus on details and prompt execution.
• Ability to collaborate with scientists and work effectively on multidisciplinary teams.

The salary range for this role is $114,700.00 – $180,500.00. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.