Machine Learning Engineer

Key Skills

Python Programming, SQL, Cloud computing

Job Description

New hires in office-based roles in the US & Puerto Rico will be required, subject to applicable law, to demonstrate that they have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or qualify for a medical or religious exemption to this vaccination requirement that can be accommodated without an undue burden to the operation. However, subject to applicable law, employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as employees in customer facing commercial or research based roles, will be required to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment.

Attention NJ Applicants: In April 2020, our Company announced plans to consolidate our New Jersey campuses into a single New Jersey headquarters location in Rahway, NJ by 2023. Therefore, the NJ work location for this role will be temporarily based and the exact timing of the departmental move to Rahway, NJ will be communicated at a future date.

Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

The Opportunity:

The Data Platform team in Data Labs IT creates end to end data solutions to support customer facing applications. This is an opportunity to join a start-up hub built within a major multinational with the goal to build innovative and cutting-edge apps within a cloud-based environment. You will be responsible for driving the next generation machine learning/ data platform and generate insights to improve animal wellbeing worldwide.

Job Description:

Working at the cutting edge of the Animal Health Intelligence division of our company (AHI), we seek a talented, multi-disciplinary, hands on Machine Learning engineer that will build scalable data science applications ready for production. As a member of the Data Platform team, you will have opportunity to work with a modern data architecture and experience cutting-edge cloud data tools. You will design/automate/deploy data engineering and machine learning pipelines. You will work in a DataOps/MLOps team with data engineers, cloud engineers, QA engineers and developers to bring customer facing applications in the Animal Health industry to life. This candidate will be instrumental in AHI Data Labs (AHI-DL) materializing and scaling unique B2B SaaS offerings for both livestock and companion animals.

Education:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Data Science, Biology, Mathematics or related field.

Qualifications:

• 1 + years of experience working with big data – structured and unstructured
• 1 + years of experience designing and implementing data engineering pipelines
• 1+ years of experience developing machine learning models
• Advanced knowledge in Python and PySpark
• Working knowledge of one or more SQL languages
• Experience with distributed computing and cloud computing
• Knowledge of common machine learning and statistics frameworks and concepts

Preferred Experience And Skills

Experience working in a Data Science tool (Dataiku, SageMaker or Databricks preferred)

3 years of hands on experience in building data science applications and machine learning pipelines.

Development experience in at least one programming language: Python, Java, NodeJS, C++, etc.

Previous MLOps experience Experience with Automation tools like Airflow

Experience with cloud computing – AWS tools – such as Lambda, EC2, EMR, Cloud9Experience with version control/ project management tools – Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence

Experience with containerizing and deploying modelsExperience working with DevOps teamsKnowledge of machine learning model lifecycle management framework

Knowledge of core capabilities of model performance monitoring

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.