AI/ML Translational Sciences Intern — PK Curve Benchmark

MSD Malaysia

South San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 39,000 - 111,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

MSD Malaysia is offering a 12-week internship in our Translational Sciences and Outsourcing (TSO) Data Science team within our Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics, Metabolism, and Bioanalytics (PDMB) department. The intern will contribute to AI/ML methods for pharmacokinetic curve prediction, collaborating with scientists to generate insights for decision-making across drug discovery and development.

The role emphasizes rigorous benchmarking, reproducible research, and collaboration with cross-functional

Qualifications

PhD student in computational chemistry, cheminformatics, machine learning, computer science, computational biology, statistics, or a related field.
Strong publication record in top-tier journals or ML conferences (e.g., ICML, NeurIPS).
Strong Python programming skills with PyTorch or similar frameworks.

Responsibilities

Analyze large-scale pharmacokinetic and molecular datasets for reproducible modeling.
Implement and benchmark ML baselines and time-series or mechanistic models for PK curve prediction.
Design evaluation settings to test generalization and data leakage across data sources.
Collaborate with scientists to interpret results and contribute to reports or manuscripts.
Document methods and results and contribute to a draft manuscript or technical report.
Present project outcomes at the end-of-summer intern symposium.