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Associate Principal Scientist -Cheminformatics Methods/Machine Learning-CHE004820

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Merck & Co., Inc. Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A. known as Merck in the United States and Canada, is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company – one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of an individual like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.


A PhD level position is open in the cheminformatics group within Global Structural Chemistry. We are looking for individuals with exceptional problem solving skills, substantial record of scientific research accomplishments and big-picture perspective on the drug discovery process.

The successful candidate will be responsible to support the design and optimization of novel drug candidates by the development and application of machine learning and statistical methods in chemometrics. The applicant would be expected to continue research in new areas of molecular informatics in target validation, lead discovery, lead optimization and process chemistry. The candidate will be able to develop new methodologies, incorporate methodologies from other fields into computational chemistry, and provide guidance on the circumstances under which a method can be used to maximal effect.

Qualifications

Education:

- A Ph.D. in Cheminformatics /Computational chemistry / Computational Life Sciences.

Required:

- A minimum of 4 years of postdoc experience in modeling complex chemical and biology data in a drug discovery setting using advanced expertise in cheminformatics and machine learning.
- Knowledge and experience in statistical programming (R or matlab) and working in Unix environment.
- Strong communication skills, along with the ability to work well in multidisciplinary teams, are essential.    

Preferred:

- Image analysis, Bioinformatics, Pipeline Pilot, Spotfire, Perl, Java, SQL

Our employees are the key to our company’s success. We demonstrate our commitment to our employees by offering a competitive and valuable rewards program. Our Company’s benefits are designed to support the wide range of goals, needs and lifestyles of our employees, and many of the people that matter the most in their lives. If you need an accommodation for the application process please email us at staffingaadar@merck.com.

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Job: Chemistry

Job Title:Assoc Prin. Scientist, Chemistry

Primary Location: NA-US-MA-Boston

Other Locations: NA-US-NJ-Kenilworth, NA-US-PA-West Point, NA-US-NJ-Rahway

Employee Status: Regular

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Number of Openings: 1

Company Trade Name:Merck

Company

Our vision is to make a difference in the lives of people globally through our innovative medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, consumer health and animal products. We aspire to be the best healthcare company in the world and are dedicated to providing leading innovations and solutions for tomorrow.

We have made it our mission to provide innovative, distinctive products and services that save and improve lives, satisfy customer needs and to be recognized as a great place to work

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