Merck currently has 27 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 41%, are focused on agents. Engineering is the most frequent function for these positions. The company is hiring for these roles in the United States, Czech Republic, and Singapore. Frequent technology tags include fine-tuning, RAG, and agent orchestration. In the last 30 days, Merck has posted 48 new AI roles, representing a 700% increase from the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 11 active AI roles, up 14% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $129k–$228k (avg $176k).
Merck currently has 34 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Senior Business Analyst – Automation, Analytics & AI (2), Specialist, Capability Innovation & Prototype (AI Content Delivery & Partnerships) (2), AI Developer, AI Engineer, AI Research Engineer. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Merck's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (38%), application (24%), data (24%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Merck is hiring AI talent in: India (11 roles), United States (7 roles), Czech Republic (7 roles), Singapore (5 roles).
Job postings at Merck most frequently reference: llm observability, model serving, fine tuning, rag, evals.
In the past 30 days, Merck has posted 48 new AI-related roles. That is a +66% change versus the prior 30 days (29 → 48).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Director, Data Science, Foundation Model AI Director of foundational AI at Merck, leading a team of ML researchers and engineers to develop and train large multi-modal foundation models and bespoke methods for biological data analysis. The role involves providing technical guidance, interpreting results, and publishing research findings, with a focus on advancing therapeutic strategies. Requires a PhD and significant experience in ML/AI, team leadership, and training large models. | PretrainPost-train | 9 |
| Senior Data Scientist, Imaging Foundation Models Senior Data Scientist role at Merck focused on developing and training imaging foundation models for histopathology, with a focus on immune-relevant tissue and cellular patterns. The role involves building segmentation-driven and cell-centric pipelines, designing interpretable modeling workflows, and applying zero-shot and weakly supervised learning methods. Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and contribution to platform strategies are key. |
| Post-train |
| 8 |
| Senior Scientist, Agentic AI and Machine Learning (PDMB) Senior Scientist role focused on developing, benchmarking, and deploying agentic AI and Machine Learning solutions within the healthcare domain (Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics, Metabolism, and Bioanalytics). The role involves partnering with scientists, integrating AI/ML into R&D platforms, and contributing to responsible AI practices. Requires hands-on experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, multimodal datasets, and model evaluation. | Agent | 8 |
| Senior Specialist, Data Science Senior AI/ML Scientist role at Merck focused on developing and deploying next-generation computational toxicology capabilities. The role involves leading projects, building production-grade models and agentic systems, and establishing governance and MLOps practices for preclinical research in a regulated environment. Key responsibilities include fine-tuning foundation models, integrating multimodal datasets, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Associate Director, Business Insights and Analytics- Data Science This role leads a team focused on leveraging data science, predictive analytics, and GenAI/AI models, including agentic frameworks, to drive customer and market comprehension within the healthcare industry. The primary focus is on developing actionable insights and commercial use-cases to inform launch strategies, brand growth, and customer engagement, with a secondary emphasis on the development and optimization of AI/GenAI models and agentic systems. | AgentPost-train | 7 |
| Senior Scientist, Hybrid Modeler, Digital Insights, DSCS Digital Technologies Senior Scientist role focused on developing and deploying mechanistic, CFD-based, and data-driven models for sterile drug substance and drug product manufacturing processes in the pharmaceutical industry. The role involves integrating physics-based models with AI/ML methods to optimize processes, de-risk scale-up, and support clinical-to-commercial transitions. Requires expertise in CFD, programming (Python, MATLAB), and data science, with a focus on applying these to pharmaceutical manufacturing challenges. | ServeData | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist, Neuroscience Biomarker Discovery Senior Data Scientist role at Merck focused on Neuroscience Biomarker Discovery. The role involves developing and deploying advanced AI/ML methodologies to analyze proteomics and other omics data for identifying biomarkers in neurodegenerative diseases. Collaboration with AI/ML scientists, data scientists, and bench biologists is key. | Data | 7 |
| Director, Cheminformatics - Modeling & Informatics Director of Cheminformatics at Merck, leading a team to drive innovation in cheminformatics and data science for drug discovery. The role involves guiding the development and application of cheminformatics capabilities, translating scientific questions into scalable data architectures and workflows, and integrating modern technologies like machine learning and AI. The candidate will manage a multi-site team, develop talent, and collaborate with stakeholders across chemistry, biology, and IT. | Data | 7 |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics and Governance Senior Specialist Merck is seeking a Senior Specialist in AI Ethics and Governance to join their global team. The role focuses on assessing and mitigating risks in AI projects, implementing explainable AI (XAI), and ensuring responsible AI development within the organization. This position requires a strong understanding of AI/ML, generative AI, and agentic systems, with a focus on ethical considerations and compliance. | Eval GatePost-train | 7 |
| Associate Director – Business Insights & Analytics, US Vaccines & ID (HIV) This role is for an Associate Director of Business Insights & Analytics in the US Vaccines & ID (HIV) division at Merck. The primary focus is to provide strategic thought-partnership and data-driven insights to commercial stakeholders, informing launch strategies and supporting brand growth. The role involves translating business questions into analytical problems, proposing AI/ML/NLP/modeling techniques, and collaborating with data scientists and engineers to deliver solutions, including Agentic AI. The candidate will analyze diverse healthcare data sources and present findings to drive data-driven decisions. | AgentPost-train | 7 |
| Senior Specialist, Data Scientist Seeking a Senior Specialist, Data Scientist for Merck's R&D Quality Assurance Analytics & Tech Systems team. The role involves developing and maintaining innovative data science and analytics solutions, including machine learning and generative AI models, to support the QA space within the R&D Division. Responsibilities include technical support for data science requests, developing analytics solutions using tools like PowerBI and SQL, becoming a subject matter expert in R&D Quality Data, communicating insights, and identifying opportunities for Generative AI implementation. The role also includes mentorship and contributing to the internal data science community. | Post-train | 7 |
| Associate Principal Scientist, Computational Biologist and Image Analysis Expert Merck is seeking a computational biologist with expertise in image analysis to join their Translational Genome Analytics research team. The role involves applying AI/ML-based analytics to large multi-omics imaging and functional genomics datasets for target and biomarker discovery in drug development, with a focus on Oncology. The candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to quantitative analysis of imaging datasets and integration of machine learning with phenotypic screens. | Post-train | 7 |
| Sr. Specialist – Business Insights & Analytics, Advanced Analytics - US Vaccines & ID This role focuses on applying advanced analytics, Machine Learning, NLP, Generative AI, and Agentic AI frameworks to generate actionable insights for commercial decisions in the pharmaceutical/biotech/healthcare industry. It involves leveraging LLMs, RAG, autonomous agents, and multi-agent orchestration to enhance insight generation and automate analytical workflows, with a secondary focus on data engineering for these applications. | AgentData | 7 |
| Assoc. Director - Programmer (AI & Automation) (Hybrid) Associate Director role focused on overseeing clinical database activities, ensuring adherence to standards, and leading improvement initiatives including exploration of AI and automation within pharmaceutical clinical research data management. Requires strong understanding of clinical database design, EDC systems, and data management processes, with a preference for experience in technology implementation and awareness of emerging digital capabilities like AI. | — | 5 |
| Associate Director, Business Insights and Analytics Associate Director for Business Insights and Analytics team at Merck, focusing on leading a sub-team to deliver business insights for marketing strategy, customer experience, and engagement. The role involves 80% analytics and 20% stakeholder interaction, requiring expertise in customer segmentation, predictive/prescriptive analytics, and optimizing sales force promotion. It emphasizes translating business needs into analytical plans and communicating insights to stakeholders, with a strong focus on pharmaceutical commercial analytics and data management, including patient claims data. While mentioning GenAI agents as a tool, the core function is analytics and business insights, not AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Associate Principal Scientist, Data Engineer, Digital Insights, DSCS Digital Technologies Merck is seeking an Associate Principal Scientist, Data Engineer to join their Digital Insights team. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines to capture, curate, and deliver experimental and process data from Sterile Product Development (SPD) teams. These pipelines will support downstream SPD digital initiatives, including mechanistic and data-driven process modeling and Bayesian optimization approaches, ultimately enabling de-risking and optimizing manufacturing processes. The ideal candidate has experience in sterile drug product development and has transitioned into a data engineering or data science role, with familiarity in modeling approaches. | — | 5 |
| Associate Director – Business Insights & Analytics, US Oncology, Digital Human Health Merck is seeking an Associate Director for Business Insights & Analytics within their US Oncology, Digital Human Health team. This role focuses on leveraging data-driven insights to inform commercial strategies, launch plans, and meet business objectives. The individual will analyze healthcare data (claims, EMR), collaborate with cross-functional teams, and stay current with analytical methodologies, including the application of GenAI. While the role involves understanding and applying AI/GenAI, its core function is in commercial analytics and product strategy within the healthcare domain, not in building AI models. | — | 5 |
| Associate Director, D&A Strategy Associate Director role focused on developing and communicating data-driven insights using AI/ML and advanced analytics to inform commercial strategies for pharmaceutical products. The role involves integrating data science, forecasting, and AI/ML enablement to influence decision-making, mine and analyze data from various sources, and provide actionable insights for commercial franchises. | Ship | 5 |
| Associate Principal Scientist, Biomarker Discovery, Multiomics Seeking a scientist with expertise in multi-omics and single-cell technologies for biomarker discovery in immunology drug discovery. The role involves designing and executing laboratory experiments, collaborating with computational scientists and AIML data scientists, and evaluating emerging technologies. Requires a PhD and hands-on experience with various genomic and spatial multiomics assays, as well as computational analysis of related datasets. | — | 5 |
| Director, IT Digital Transformation Lead Source to Pay Solutions This role leads the digital transformation of Source to Pay solutions within Merck, focusing on leveraging AI and automation to optimize processes, enhance decision-making, and improve operational efficiency. The Director will partner with business leaders, manage cross-functional activities, and cultivate vendor partnerships to drive innovation and deliver measurable business outcomes. While AI is mentioned as a tool for optimization, the core function is product/solution leadership within the Source to Pay domain, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Senior Staff Reliability Engineer, Software Engineering Senior Staff Reliability Engineer at Merck, focusing on enhancing reliability, observability, and resilience of digital solutions in the healthcare domain. The role involves applying AI capabilities to improve incident management and automation, defining enterprise reliability strategies, and collaborating with engineering teams to embed reliability into system design and delivery. Requires expertise in SRE, AI, and software development with a minimum of 7 years of experience. | Serve | 5 |
| Director - Preclinical Development, Digital Insights (Hybrid) Seeking a Director of Digital Insights to lead a multidisciplinary team in shaping and executing high-impact digital insights capabilities that accelerate pharmaceutical development. The role involves driving strategy, delivery, and adoption of advanced data, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions, combining scientific domain fluency, digital strategy, and people leadership. | Data | 5 |
| Director, Advanced Marketing Analytics & Optimization- RRD This Director role focuses on leading Marketing Effectiveness & Optimization for Rare Disease and Respiratory Commercial organizations. The role involves applying advanced analytics, predictive/prescriptive models, and GenAI solutions to optimize customer engagement, sales force effectiveness, and marketing investments. It bridges strategy, analytics, digital platforms, and execution, aiming to translate business priorities into data-driven solutions for commercial performance. The role also includes building and leading high-performing teams and evolving analytics methodologies. | Ship | 5 |
| Scientist, Safety Pharmacology The Scientist, Safety Pharmacology role at Merck involves analyzing physiologic signals using signal processing, machine learning, and AI to develop new in vivo analysis tools and contribute to risk assessment evaluations for drug development. The role focuses on building and refining analysis tools and workflows for nonclinical data within the healthcare domain. | Data | 5 |
| Associate Director, Transformation-Strategy Realization This role focuses on driving transformation within Merck's Human Health Division, aiming to create an AI-enabled, agile, and integrated commercial model. The Associate Director will shape future-state operating models, including AI-enabled workflows, and translate strategic priorities into executable roadmaps and scaled deployment plans. The role emphasizes partnering with stakeholders, driving pilot execution, and enabling transformation deployment to achieve measurable impact realization. | — | 5 |
| Associate Scientist, Post Doctoral Fellow- Epstein-Barr Virus & Multiple Sclerosis - Hybrid This postdoctoral research fellow position focuses on studying the link between Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) using advanced analytical methods, including machine learning and omics approaches, to identify patterns in host immune response and potential biomarkers. The role involves developing statistical models, analyzing large datasets, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. | Data | 5 |
| Sr. Spclst, D&A Strategy This role is for a Senior Specialist in Business Insights & Analytics for US Oncology within Merck's Digital Human Health team. The primary focus is on developing and communicating data-driven insights to inform commercial strategies, launch plans, and achieve commercial objectives. The role involves translating business needs into analytical plans, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and staying current with industry trends, including the application of GenAI. While the role requires an understanding of AI and its potential applications, it is not a core AI/ML development role but rather a user and strategic integrator of AI-driven insights within a commercial context. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Scientist, Predictive Immune Biomarkers Senior Scientist role focused on developing predictive biomarkers in immunology using multi-modal and multi-scale data analyses, including RNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics. Requires strong computational biology and data science skills with experience in R, Python, and HPC/AWS. | Data | 5 |
| Assoc. Dir , D&A Strategy Associate Director of Data Strategy for Merck's Vaccine & Infectious Disease US commercial team. This role focuses on sourcing, creating, and managing commercial data assets to inform business decisions, particularly in HIV and Influenza markets. It involves strategic thought-partnership, data needs assessment, gap analysis, and execution of plans to acquire or create data. The role requires strong business acumen, leadership skills, and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, including data providers and analytics teams. While AI and agentic technologies are mentioned as areas of interest, the core function is data strategy and asset management within a commercial healthcare context. | — | 5 |
| Value & Implementation (V&I) Medical Data Analytics Center Data Enablement Associate Director This role focuses on data enablement within the Medical Data Analytics Center, assisting the V&I organization in making data-driven strategic decisions. It involves identifying data sources, developing analytic solutions, creating data visualizations, and managing external vendors. The role requires a blend of business acumen and technical competence, with responsibilities including developing and maintaining databases, data pipelines, and scalable analytic products. Experience with advanced analytics, statistical modeling, NLP, AI, Machine Learning, Python, SQL, and cloud platforms like AWS is required, along with a strong understanding of healthcare data (EMR/EHR). | Data | 5 |
| Process Intelligence Associate Director Associate Director in Process Intelligence team at Merck, focusing on driving structured process discovery, architecting future-state designs, and translating insights into measurable performance improvement. The role involves partnering across business, technology, and product organizations to optimize processes, leverage AI capabilities, and develop AI/Agentic AI solutions. Responsibilities include leading process discovery sessions, analyzing business processes, gathering requirements for automation and AI initiatives, and developing business process digital twins. The role also involves stakeholder engagement, project management, and coaching team members. | Agent | 5 |
| Process Intelligence Senior Specialist This role focuses on analyzing and optimizing business processes, identifying opportunities for AI and automation, and gathering requirements for AI/Agentic AI solutions. It involves business process modeling, data analysis, and supporting the SDLC for these initiatives, but the core deliverable is process improvement and requirements, not the AI models themselves. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Dir , US Commercial Data Products, Services & Solutions This role leads the end-to-end portfolio of commercial data products and services for the US Market Human Health organization. It involves defining product strategy, delivery, quality, and adoption for data assets supporting various commercial functions. The role requires partnering with multiple teams to understand data needs, lead delivery of services, and ensure the data ecosystem is AI and Gen AI ready. It also involves managing product lifecycles, leading multidisciplinary teams, and embedding governance, privacy, and compliance. | Ship | 5 |
| Distinguished Scientist, Vaccines & Advanced Biotechnologies Process R&D Distinguished Scientist role in Vaccines & Advanced Biotechnologies Process R&D at Merck, focusing on the process development and clinical manufacturing of vaccine drug substances. The role involves crafting scientific strategy, fostering collaborations, mentoring talent, and advising on complex technical challenges, with a requirement for experience in CMC leadership and regulatory submissions. While AI/ML is mentioned as an area of understanding, it is not the core craft of the role. | — | 5 |
| Senior Specialist , Business Insights & Analytics, US Oncology, Digital Human Health Merck is seeking a Senior Specialist in Business Insights & Analytics for their US Oncology, Digital Human Health team. This role focuses on leveraging data to provide strategic insights for commercial teams, inform go-to-market strategies, and drive customer understanding. The individual will translate business needs into analytical plans, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and stay updated on industry trends, including the application of GenAI. Experience with healthcare data, particularly EMR/EHR and claims data, is required, along with a strong understanding of commercial analytics and technology. The role emphasizes an entrepreneurial and consultative approach, with a need to understand the responsible use of AI in a regulated environment. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Specialist, Data Analysis Seeking a Senior Specialist of Financial Data & Advanced Analytics to develop and deliver advanced analytic solutions for strategic decision-making across Merck's enterprise. The role involves data modeling, predictive analytics, forecasting, scenario analysis, and performance management, partnering with various finance and data teams. Requires expertise in ML, data analysis, BI tools (Power BI, SQL/Python), and working within agile methodologies, with a strong emphasis on analytical rigor and model governance within a regulated financial environment. | Post-train | 5 |
| Business Analyst – Automation, Analytics & AI The Business Analyst – Automation, Analytics & AI supports the identification, delivery, and sustainment of country-level automation, analytics, and AI solutions that enhance clinical trial operations. The role assists with business case preparation, data analysis, dashboard/report building, workflow documentation, solution testing, training, and user support. They ensure solutions are compliant, adopted, and continuously improved. | — | 5 |
| Senior Business Analyst – Automation, Analytics & AI (Sr. BA – AA & AI) The Senior Business Analyst - Automation, Analytics & AI role at Merck focuses on identifying, designing, and delivering technology-enabled solutions to improve clinical trial operations. This involves leading the intake and assessment of local automation, analytics, and AI initiatives, creating business cases, overseeing the development of country-specific tools, and scaling successful solutions. The role requires ensuring adherence to regulations, driving measurable impact through KPIs, and managing the full solution lifecycle from ideation to retirement. While the role involves AI/ML pilots and awareness of AI/ML use cases, its primary focus is on delivering operational improvements and tools rather than core AI research or model development. | Ship | 5 |
| Associate Director, Technical Product Management Associate Director, Technical Product Management at Merck, focusing on integration platforms within the healthcare domain. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, translating business requirements into technical specifications, and leading agile teams to implement solutions. It requires evaluating emerging technologies like AI/ML, managing product roadmaps, and ensuring scalability, security, and compliance with health sciences regulatory standards (HIPAA, FDA). | — | 5 |
| Assoc. Dir, Community Engagement Associate Director, Community Engagement for a Finance Digital Office, responsible for building and leading digital community programs, learning pathways, and adoption measurement for finance professionals globally. Focuses on digital transformation, adoption of tools like Microsoft Copilot, Python in Excel, and Power BI, and measuring engagement and impact. | — | 5 |
| Associate Principal Scientist, Preclinical Development This role focuses on creating next-generation mammalian cell lines for therapeutic development by designing synthetic genetic circuits, managing multi-omics datasets, and utilizing NGS. It involves applying machine learning (ML) or deep learning (DL) models to inform experimental design and predict cell line performance, alongside computational modeling of cellular pathways and metabolism. The role requires strong programming skills in Python or R for biological data analysis and experience with Linux/Unix environments. | Data | 5 |
| 2026 Future Talent Program - Data science Co-op (Proteomics & Genetics) This role focuses on curating, preprocessing, and integrating large-scale proteomics, genetics, and multi-omics datasets for biomarker and target discovery. It involves exploring and developing statistical and AI/ML approaches for these purposes, and building causal networks. The role is within a Research and Development division at Merck, specifically in the Precision Genetics group. | Data | 5 |
| Sr. Spclst , Software Engineering Merck is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer for their R&D IT team to enhance sample management capabilities. The role involves designing and implementing integrations, writing clean code, ensuring regulatory compliance (GxP, FDA, HIPAA), and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Experience with Gen AI, Agentic AI tools, and LLMs is mentioned as a plus. | Ship | 5 |
| Assoc. Scientist,Post Doc Fellow This postdoctoral research fellow role focuses on developing innovative high-throughput crystallization strategies and methodologies using automation and machine learning to discover new solid forms in pharmaceutical research. The role involves characterizing these forms using various analytical techniques and building analytical methods to process large datasets. | Data | 5 |
| Specialist, Data Science, Digital Operations and Innovation This role supports initiatives that integrate AI tools across scientific operations, automated authoring workflows, and laboratory operations. The candidate will contribute to AI-driven solutions for scientific search, summarization, and information extraction, and assist in the development of automated authoring capabilities. The role also supports the development of tools, metrics, analytics, and models for operational insights and workload prediction. | Data | 5 |
| Principal Scientist, Stat. Programming - A&R Standards, Innovation (Hybrid) This role focuses on developing and delivering standards and tools for statistical programming in drug and vaccine development, with a mention of leveraging AI where appropriate. The primary focus is on R, Python, and SAS for data analysis and reporting, adhering to clinical trial and regulatory standards. While AI tools are mentioned as a preferred skill for enhancing coding efficiency, the core responsibilities do not involve building or shipping AI models or agents. | — | 1 |
| Automation Scientist, Pharmacokinetics Seeking a bioanalytical scientist with experience in automation and operational support for regulated bioanalytical labs conducting biotherapeutics analysis in drug development studies. The role involves designing, planning, and utilizing automation methods for assay development, validation, and sample analysis. Collaboration with team members to operate and troubleshoot automated lab equipment and systems is key, along with managing data integrity through automated processes and supporting data delivery to collaborators. The role also involves identifying, evaluating, and recommending novel automation and assay strategies, including machine learning and artificial intelligence. | — | 1 |
| Associate Technician, Shared Services Operations - 2nd Shift (Onsite) Associate Technician role in pharmaceutical operations supporting drug product development and GMP clinical supply of sterile dosage forms. Responsibilities include hands-on processing, equipment preparation, cleaning, documentation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. Requires adherence to GMP, attention to detail, and proficiency in electronic systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Global Director Medical Affairs (GDMA) - Genitourinary Malignancies Senior Global Director Medical Affairs (GDMA) for Genitourinary Malignancies at Merck, responsible for executing Global Medical and Scientific Affairs plans, acting as a subject matter expert, and supporting US and global strategies. Requires medical expertise and experience in medical affairs or clinical development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Global Director Medical Affairs (GDMA) - Genitourinary Malignancies Senior Global Director Medical Affairs (GDMA) for Genitourinary Malignancies at Merck. Responsible for driving the execution of Global Medical and Scientific Affairs (GMSA) plans, acting as a subject matter expert, and supporting US and global strategies. Requires medical expertise (MD, PhD, PharmD) and experience in medical affairs or clinical development. | — | 0 |