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).
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| 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 |
| 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. |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Country Therapeutic Area Head (TA Head) - Oncology Country Therapeutic Area Head for Oncology at Merck, responsible for the end-to-end performance of clinical trials in one or several therapeutic areas, ensuring adherence to regulations and SOPs. This role involves leading and managing teams, developing operational strategies, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and contributing to business targets. | — | 0 |
| Health Systems Oncology Medical Affairs Director (HSO MAD) - Texas/Louisiana/New Mexico This role is for a Health Systems Oncology Medical Affairs Director who will develop relationships with healthcare decision makers, provide information on the oncology product portfolio, and contribute to strategic planning. The role requires a medical or PhD degree and experience in field-based medical affairs or clinical oncology. It involves understanding healthcare systems, payers, and market dynamics to support product value propositions. | — | 0 |
| 2026 Future Talent Program – Animal Health Tech Solutions Business/Product - Co-op This is a co-op position for the Future Talent Program in Merck's Animal Health Division, focusing on Tech Solutions Business/Product. The role involves supporting project execution, gathering information for sustainability initiatives, assisting with sustainability positions, formatting documents, and coordinating team meetings and events. It requires experience in sustainability initiatives and a notion of life sciences. | — | 0 |
| Global Medical Affairs and Strategic Alliances Director The Global Medical Affairs and Strategic Alliances Director role at Merck focuses on supporting and coordinating Medical Affairs (MA) activities for external strategic alliances and partnerships within the Value & Implementation (V&I) organization. This role is responsible for managing relationships with external partners, ensuring alignment of scientific and medical strategies, and overseeing the execution of MA plans across various functions like Medical Information, Publications, and Field Medical Activities. The Director will also manage budgets, assess risks, and facilitate communication between internal and external stakeholders to ensure seamless execution of alliance objectives. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director, Oncology Key Accounts - North Carolina Associate Director, Oncology Key Accounts role at Merck, focusing on managing relationships with large Oncology group practices and integrated delivery networks in North Carolina. Responsibilities include establishing the company as a leader, supporting healthcare partners, improving patient outcomes, and acting as a trusted resource. The role involves field-based account management, requiring travel and a strong understanding of the healthcare ecosystem, clinical proficiency in oncology and hematology, and business acumen for strategic account planning and engagement. | — | 0 |
| Assoc. Dir., Development Project Manager (Hybrid) Associate Director, Development Project Manager role at Merck, focusing on managing the end-to-end drug development process for R&D pipeline progression. This role requires strong project management skills, leadership influence, and cross-functional team guidance across various therapeutic areas. Responsibilities include integrated planning, execution, risk management, and contributing to business process improvement within the Global Project and Alliance Management (GPAM) organization. | — | 0 |
| Director - Process Data Enablement Product Owner Director, Process Data Enablement Product Owner at Merck, responsible for defining capabilities, developing roadmaps, and driving delivery for process data and analytics products. Leads a team of product analysts and data engineers to deliver governed data products for manufacturing science and technology customers. Partners with various stakeholders to translate data needs into scalable solutions, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director, Patient Health Innovation (PHI) - Digital Direct Access This role focuses on co-leading the strategy and execution of digital direct access and direct-to-patient (DtP) capabilities within the pharmaceutical industry. The Associate Director will act as a subject matter expert for end-to-end capabilities, orchestrating various components like diagnostic testing, telehealth, and fulfillment integrations to create an integrated, patient-centric digital access ecosystem. The goal is to reduce prescription friction and simplify therapy initiation, working closely with commercial, legal, privacy, supply chain, compliance, IT, vendors, and payer stakeholders. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Specialist, Procurement This role is for a Sr. Specialist in Procurement within Merck's Animal Health division. The individual will lead strategic sourcing of materials and services, manage supplier relationships, negotiate contracts, and drive cost savings and working capital improvements. The role requires experience in procurement within the Life Sciences/Pharma industry and strong negotiation and commercial skills. | — | 0 |
| Specialist Medical Affairs The Specialist, Grant Operations, Patient Engagement, role at Merck supports initiatives that advance Patient Insights & Engagement (PI&E) deliverables. This position manages and executes U.S. and Global Independent Patient Advocacy, Charitable, and PI&E Non-Continuing Education (CE) Grant processing from initiation through close-out, ensuring compliance with guidelines, policies, and legal/ethical/regulatory requirements. The role involves collaboration with external stakeholders, Legal, Compliance, and PI&E teams, as well as managing grant systems, reporting, and audits. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Spclst, Project Management This role leads external manufacturing activities for clinical development in the pharmaceutical industry, focusing on program management, CMO oversight, GMP compliance, and cross-functional team integration. It involves managing supply chain, financial aspects, and process improvements, with a mention of using digital tools and AI-enabled platforms for efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director, Technical Product Management Product Owner for cybersecurity products within Merck's IT Risk Management & Security (ITRMS) Transformation & Product Management team. The role focuses on the end-to-end product lifecycle, translating security, risk, and business needs into actionable priorities and measurable outcomes. Responsibilities include defining product vision and roadmap, managing the product backlog, leading stakeholder engagement, driving Agile/SAFe execution, and defining/tracking KPIs. The role requires experience in delivering complex technology or cybersecurity products and working in regulated environments. | — | 0 |
| Specialist Medical Affairs This role supports patient engagement initiatives within the Value & Implementation organization at Merck, focusing on coordinating operational activities, managing stakeholder interactions, tracking metrics, and ensuring compliance. It involves administrative execution, meeting coordination, and maintaining documentation related to patient engagement projects. | — | 0 |
| Director (Ophthalmology), Clinical and Regulatory Strategic Communications (CRSC) Director role in Clinical and Regulatory Strategic Communications (CRSC) at Merck, focusing on creating and delivering high-quality regulated content for the company's development pipeline. The role involves strategic planning, scientific expertise, and leadership in authoring, editing, and reviewing clinical regulatory and public-facing documents. It requires deep knowledge of clinical development, regulations, and therapeutic areas, with an emphasis on ophthalmology. The position also involves process improvement, stakeholder engagement, and potentially managing direct reports. | — | 0 |
| Director, Learning & Development - Oncology, US Market This role is for a Director of Learning & Development in the Oncology US Market at Merck. The primary focus is on supporting US Market Oncology launches and in-market brands by developing product knowledge and capability-building programs for customer-facing teams. The role involves strategic leadership, business partnership, launch excellence, end-to-end learning orchestration, innovation (including leveraging AI-enabled solutions), and talent leadership. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Pharma Sales/Marketing or business roles, with a strong background in Learning & Development, team leadership, and influencing in a matrix environment. | — | 0 |
| Director, Learning & Development - Ophthalmology, Immunology & Cardiology, US Market This role is for a Director of Learning & Development in the US Market for Merck's Ophthalmology, Immunology, and Cardiology portfolios. The primary focus is on strategic leadership, business partnership, launch excellence, and capability building within the Human Health division. The role involves developing and executing learning strategies, integrating data-driven insights, personalization, and AI-enabled learning solutions, and leading a high-performing team. While AI is mentioned as a tool for personalization and learning solutions, the core function of the role is not AI/ML development but rather the application of learning and development strategies in a biopharmaceutical context. | — | 0 |
| Director, Learning & Development - PAH, IAM, Respiratory, and Vaccines/Infectious Disease This role is for a Director of Learning & Development at Merck, focusing on supporting US market launches and in-market brands for specific portfolios. The role involves strategic leadership, business partnership, designing and executing learning plans, and driving innovation in learning through digital and AI-enabled platforms. The primary focus is on developing capabilities for customer-facing teams within the Human Health division. | — | 0 |
| Study Manager, Epidemiology Operations The Study Manager, Epidemiology Operations role at Merck supports Lead Epi Scientists in operational aspects of research studies, including planning, execution, and close-out of observational and non-interventional studies. Responsibilities involve vendor oversight, document review, coordination of data collection and processing, quality control, and ensuring compliance with GPP and SOPs. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and experience in clinical/observational research, with basic knowledge of epidemiology or outcomes research, and strong project management and communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Director, Integration Office Director role within Merck's Integration Office, focusing on the enterprise integration of Human Health and Animal Health mergers & acquisitions. Responsibilities include due diligence, developing and executing integration plans, managing cross-functional teams, and driving transparency to minimize business disruption. The role requires strong critical thinking, collaboration, business acumen, and experience in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director, Regulatory Liaison - Oncology Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs for Oncology products at Merck, focusing on global regulatory strategy, submissions, and agency communications. Requires experience in drug development and regulatory interactions. | — | 0 |
| Vaccine Key Customer Leader - Atlanta, GA This role is a customer-facing sales and account management position focused on driving vaccine growth within a designated market for Merck. The Vaccine Key Customer Leader will lead vaccine growth strategy for assigned key accounts, engage with C-suite and senior leaders, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure implementation and pull-through. The role requires deep knowledge of the vaccination landscape, competitor monitoring, and compliance with company policies. | — | 0 |
| Assoc Director Discovery & Translational Portfolio Management (Hybrid) Associate Director for Discovery & Translational Portfolio Management at Merck, responsible for managing the early-stage R&D portfolio (discovery through IND/Ph1) within a therapeutic area. This role involves strategic planning, cross-functional alignment, decision-making support, risk management, and collaboration with various teams and leadership. Requires strong project/portfolio management experience, leadership, and communication skills, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry. | — | 0 |
| Director, Strategic Planning This role leads a team responsible for shaping a future where strategy and execution operate as a unified system, transformation is delivered at scale with speed, and new capabilities such as AI and automation redefine how work is done. The Director will provide direction, coaching, and prioritization across a portfolio of strategic initiatives while ensuring strong execution, talent development, and enterprise impact. | — | 0 |
| Executive Director, Federal Policy and Government Relations - U.S. Senate This role focuses on advancing federal policy priorities within the U.S. Senate, particularly concerning Republican members. It involves managing relationships with legislators and stakeholders, driving legislative priorities through strategic engagement, and understanding the company's mission and product pipeline within the healthcare sector. The position requires extensive experience in public policy or advocacy, a deep understanding of U.S. healthcare public policy, and strong communication and collaboration skills. | — | 0 |
| Executive Director, Federal Policy and Government Relations - House of Representatives This role focuses on advancing federal policy priorities within the U.S. House of Representatives, particularly with Republican members. It involves managing relationships with key stakeholders, including legislators and government agencies, and requires a deep understanding of U.S. healthcare public policy. The position emphasizes strategic engagement and cross-functional collaboration to achieve policy objectives. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Specialist, Learning & Development - Integrated Account Management (Hybrid - Upper Gwynedd, PA) This role is a Senior Specialist in Learning & Development, focusing on Integrated Account Management within the healthcare portfolio. The position involves partnering with business leaders to identify capability gaps, assess needs, and design learning solutions to enhance skills and organizational effectiveness. Responsibilities include consulting, facilitating, project management, and developing strategic learning experiences for customer-facing roles. The role also supports the adoption of specific engagement processes and requires strong business acumen and project leadership. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Specialist, Learning & Development - PAH (Hybrid - Upper Gwynedd, PA) This role is a Senior Specialist in Learning & Development for Peripheral Arterial Hypertension (PAH) at Merck. The primary focus is on consulting and delivering learning solutions aligned with the L&D strategy, identifying performance needs, and building business relationships. The role requires applying adult learning theory, collaborating with stakeholders, and measuring the impact of learning interventions to drive business value. It involves project leadership, content delivery, and financial tracking related to learning solutions. | — | 0 |
| AVP, Head of Infectious Disease & Vaccines Clinical Science The Associate Vice President (AVP), Head of Infectious Disease & Vaccines Clinical Science, is the global functional leader for the Infectious Disease & Vaccines (ID/V) Clinical Scientist (CS) organization within Infectious Disease & Vaccines Clinical Development. This role is accountable for setting scientific standards, operating model, and talent strategy for Clinical Scientists supporting our company's late stage Infectious Disease & Vaccines portfolio. The AVP ensures that Clinical Scientists deliver consistent, high quality scientific and technical oversight of studies and assets, partnering closely with Clinical Directors (CDs), Product Development Team Leaders, Therapeutic Area Heads, Global Clinical Trials operations teams as well as other cross functional partners to advance programs from First-In-Human through registration and lifecycle management. This role is not asset specific; rather, it provides horizontal leadership and governance of clinical scientists across the Infectious Disease & Vaccines portfolio. | — | 0 |
| Senior Specialist, Clinical Supply Project Manager - Inventory Manager – Hybrid Merck is seeking a Senior Specialist, Clinical Supply Project Manager with a focus on Inventory Management. This role is responsible for end-to-end planning, sourcing, labeling, packaging, and delivery of clinical supplies for clinical trials. The Inventory Manager will create strategic and operational plans for downstream activities, manage material availability, and oversee movement through depot networks to clinical sites. Key responsibilities include collaborating with clinical development teams, managing timelines, analyzing risks, utilizing supply chain systems (SAP, IRT, SWMS, Veeva), and reporting incidents. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience) in a relevant field, at least 5 years of project management experience, and 5 years of supply chain experience. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director, Clinical Supply Project Manager - Protocol – Hybrid The Associate Director, Clinical Supply Project Manager will manage the end-to-end integrated clinical supply chain for clinical trials, including planning, sourcing, labeling, packaging, and delivery of clinical supplies. This role serves as the primary point of contact for stakeholders and is responsible for designing strategic and operational plans for assigned studies, managing timelines, and analyzing project risks. The role requires strong project management, communication, and analytical skills, with experience in supply chain systems and processes within the healthcare/pharmaceutical industry. | — | 0 |
| Senior Specialist, Clinical Supply Project Manager - Protocol – Hybrid This role is a Senior Specialist, Clinical Supply Project Manager at Merck, focusing on managing the end-to-end clinical supply chain for clinical trials. The responsibilities include planning, sourcing, labeling, packaging, and delivery of clinical supplies, serving as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, and designing strategic and operational plans for assigned studies. The role requires collaboration with various functional areas, risk analysis, and utilization of supply chain systems like SAP and IRT. | — | 0 |
| Executive Director, Asset Development Team Leader Executive Director leading a cross-functional team to manage the strategy, oversight, and delivery of end-to-end activities for new or marketed oncology drugs, from discovery through reimbursement. | — | 0 |
| Administrative Assistant Administrative Assistant role at Merck supporting a Site Director at an Animal Health manufacturing site. Responsibilities include calendar management, document preparation, serving as a liaison, coordinating personnel matters, supporting site communications and events, managing administrative operations like expense reports and purchase orders, and assisting with special projects. Requires strong organizational, communication, and discretion skills, proficiency in Microsoft 365, and experience with scheduling, expense, and travel tools. | — | 0 |
| Dir , Technical Product Management The Director, Technical Product Management will lead the strategic implementation and evolution of an enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform, focusing on DocuSign CLM. This role involves defining product vision, translating business needs into requirements, driving delivery, overseeing business-as-usual support, establishing governance, and identifying enhancement opportunities. It requires a blend of product ownership, enterprise systems implementation, stakeholder engagement, and operational leadership within a global, regulated environment. | — | 0 |