Senior Foundation Model Scientist, Biotech AI Discovery

MSD Malaysia; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision care

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Vacation

Sick days

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc. in the United States is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Scientist to develop and train large-scale Foundation Models on biological data, supporting target and biomarker discovery and biomolecular research.

The role involves collaboration across computational biologists, data scientists, engineers, and researchers, with access to high-performance GPUs and advanced AI/ML tooling. A PhD and expert PyTorch experience are required, along with strong communication skills and a

Qualifications

• PhD required in a relevant STEM field
• Strong expertise in modern AI/ML, training large transformer-based Foundation models
• Experience with pre-training large-scale multi-GPU models

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define research questions and data requirements
• Design, train, and implement transformer-based Foundation Models for target and biomarker discovery
• Publish research findings and contribute to the scientific community

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Transformer models

Foundation models

Large-scale training

Diffusion models

Representation learning

GPUs

Education

PhD in a relevant STEM field

Tools

PyTorch ecosystem

Job description

Merck & Co., Inc. in the United States is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Scientist to develop and train large-scale Foundation Models on biological data, supporting target and biomarker discovery and biomolecular research.

The role involves collaboration across computational biologists, data scientists, engineers, and researchers, with access to high-performance GPUs and advanced AI/ML tooling. A PhD and expert PyTorch experience are required, along with strong communication skills and a