NLP & Generative AI Product Manager

Merck; West Point (PA); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck is seeking an experienced Data Scientist, AI/ML Engineer, or AI Product Manager to join its AI capability engineering team in West Point, PA. The role blends deep analytics with product ownership of NLP and Generative AI offerings, turning prototypes into reliable services for drug discovery and development.

You will work with data scientists, engineers, and scientists to define requirements, manage product discovery, and drive adoption while embedding in a cross-disciplinary team focused

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in data science, AI/ML Engineering, Agentic AI, AI Product Management, or related discipline.
• HS diploma

Responsibilities

• Product Discovery & Stakeholder Alignment: understand pain points, translate needs into user stories.
• Backlog & Roadmap Prioritization: own and prioritize backlog and deliveries.
• Requirement Specifications: write clear requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Adoption & Change Management: demo features, enable users, gather feedback, measure adoption.
• Exploratory Data Analysis: analyze structured/unstructured data to address needs.
• Pipeline Integration: integrate prototypes into production-ready pipelines with best practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

Git

Pandas

NLP

LLM

LangGraph

Prompt Engineering

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in data-related field

Tools

Hugging Face

spaCy

LangChain

Job description

Merck is seeking an experienced Data Scientist, AI/ML Engineer, or AI Product Manager to join its AI capability engineering team in West Point, PA. The role blends deep analytics with product ownership of NLP and Generative AI offerings, turning prototypes into reliable services for drug discovery and development.

You will work with data scientists, engineers, and scientists to define requirements, manage product discovery, and drive adoption while embedding in a cross-disciplinary team focused