Associate Scientist

**Associate Scientist, Imaging Biomarkers**

At our company, we are committed to becoming the premier, research-intensive biopharmaceutical company and are dedicated to providing leading innovations and solutions for today and the future.

Our Research Scientists are our Inventors. We identify and target steps in disease mechanisms or pathways that could be inhibited or enhanced. Our goal is to isolate a compound that is effective against a disease target. Using innovative thinking, state-of-the-art facilities and robust scientific methodology we collaborate to discover the next medical breakthrough.

Join our imaging biomarkers team at our research laboratory in Singapore. We integrate biology, imaging technology, and data science to discover novel biomarkers in disease biology to accelerate drug discovery and development. In this role, you will leverage artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) and image analysis for digital pathology. You will work closely with colleagues from discovery biology, translational medicine and external vendors/collaborators to execute imaging biomarker studies.

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**
- Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:_
- Execute imaging biomarker study operations and coordination with internal stakeholders and external vendors/collaborators to meet demanding discovery program timeline
- Responsible for managing tissue sample shipment, sample tracking and monitoring study progress for digital pathology studies
- Perform routine image and data analysis using established in-house analysis pipeline to support work orders related to our preclinical studies
- Proactively identify areas of improvement in existing image analysis workflows to drive innovation and enhance operational efficiency
- Perform large data visualization, interpretation, and report study results to help investigate disease biology and support drug discovery/development
- Conduct relevant literature studies to formulate methods and hypothesis for the analysis and interpretation of digital pathology images
- Contribute to authoring documentation related to image analysis workflow/pipeline, SOPs and develop QA/QC plans

**WHAT YOU MUST HAVE**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Sciences, Computational Biology, Statistics, or the equivalent with 3+ years of relevant research experience in medical image processing and analysis
- Strong foundation and hands-on experience with medical image analysis and processing in Matlab or Python
- Experience in data analysis & visualization using Python (seaborn, matplotlib), R (ggplot2, corrplot)
- Understanding in deep learning and/or machine learning (scikit-learn, pytorch, tensorflow)
- Understanding of biostatistics

**WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT**
- Integrating biology, Imaging and Data Science
- Exposure of AI/ML in digital pathology
- Hybrid working environment
- Career growth and learning advancement

We are a research-driven biopharmaceutical company. Our mission is built on the simple premise that if we “follow the science” and that great medicines can make a significant impact to our world. And we believe that a research-driven enterprise dedicated to world-class science can succeed by inventing medicine and vaccine innovations that make a difference for patients across the globe.

**Who we are **

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, 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.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace

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**Employee Status**:
Temporary (Fixed Term)

**Relocation