Senior Scientific Software Engineer, Digital Insights

Merck; West Point (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck is seeking a Senior Specialist, Scientific Software Engineer to join our Digital Insights team within the Development Sciences and Clinical Supply Digital Technologies organization. The role focuses on delivering scalable, production-grade scientific software and data solutions that accelerate experiments, improve data integrity, and strengthen supply chains across the portfolio.

The successful candidate will own software and data engineering across our portfolio, designing reusable

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and sustain scientific software and automation solutions from prototype to production.
• Design reusable platforms, APIs, and data pipelines for analytics-ready data.
• Lead data engineering and data product development, including pipelines and data models.
• Collaborate with IT, security, governance, and vendor teams to deploy solutions in production.
• Own end-to-end software delivery including testing, documentation, deployment, and CI/CD.
• Provide technical leadership during onboarding, training, and production rollout.

Job description

Merck is seeking a Senior Specialist, Scientific Software Engineer to join our Digital Insights team within the Development Sciences and Clinical Supply Digital Technologies organization. The role focuses on delivering scalable, production-grade scientific software and data solutions that accelerate experiments, improve data integrity, and strengthen supply chains across the portfolio.

The successful candidate will own software and data engineering across our portfolio, designing reusable