Postdoctoral Scientist, Single-Cell & Spatial Immunology

MSD; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 82,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Retirement benefits (401(k))

Paid holidays and vacation

Job summary

MSD seeks a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join a cross-functional team studying immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. You will analyze large-scale single-cell and spatial datasets to uncover disease-driving cellular programs and biomarker hypotheses.

The role emphasizes collaboration across immunology, computational biology, and translational medicine, with opportunities to publish, present at conferences, and advance therapeutic strategies.

Qualifications

• Must currently hold a PhD or will have PhD by Spring 2027.
• PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Genomics, CS, Statistics, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large-scale single-cell RNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics, and multi-omics datasets.
• Develop computational methods for data integration, annotation, and interpretation.
• Collaborate with immunologists, translational scientists, clinicians, and computational researchers.
• Lead publication-quality analyses and manuscripts.

Skills

R programming

Python programming

Bioinformatics

Biomarkers

Machine Learning

Transcriptomics

Systems Biology

Translational Medicine

HPC

Publication record

Education

PhD in Computational Biology or related

Tools

Seurat

Scanpy

scVI

Job description

MSD seeks a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join a cross-functional team studying immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. You will analyze large-scale single-cell and spatial datasets to uncover disease-driving cellular programs and biomarker hypotheses.

The role emphasizes collaboration across immunology, computational biology, and translational medicine, with opportunities to publish, present at conferences, and advance therapeutic strategies.