Scientist, Screening Automation & Informatics

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Job Title: Scientist, Screening Automation & Informatics
Location: New York, NY,

Company: Merck
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Salary: Competetive
Job Description: Job Description

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.

The Screening & Informatics Group at our Company Research Laboratories site in Kenilworth, NJ, is looking for highly motivated, talented and innovative candidates with experience in laboratory automation and informatics. Successful individuals will create, implement, execute, and maintain automated methods and dataflows enabling cutting-edge technologies including ultra-high-throughput mass spectrometry (uHT-MS), DNA-Encoded Libraries (DEL), mixture-based mass spectrometry (ALIS), mRNA-Display, and traditional HTS (tHTS). Your efforts will be a complement to our existing walk-up and integrated robotic system capabilities and will serve as a means to expand our ability to interrogate and identify new chemical matter to help drive our discovery programs. You will be expected to work independently and to proactively collaborate with colleagues in Screening & Compound Profiling, Quantitative Biosciences, Discovery Chemistry, IT, and across therapeutic area disciplines.

As a member of the lab automation & informatics team, the successful candidate will participate in the method development, planning and execution of robust automation strategies to support the following in vitro systems on both integrated and walk-up robotic platforms:

target-based and phenotypic tHTS in biochemical and/or translatable, cell-based formats
complex high throughput biology
a broad range of affinity-based technologies

Knowledge of cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, and cell-based assay systems would be beneficial in this role. Finally, you will work closely with data scientists, informatics, and automation colleagues to establish robust and sustainable end-to-end solutions that address data management bottlenecks.

Responsibilities:

Hands-on hardware/programming with robotic liquid handlers (e.g.Tecan, Hamilton, Agilent) and integrated robotic systems (e.g. HighRes Biosolutions)
Extensive collaboration with assay scientists for validation, documentation, and execution of high-throughput (HT) workflows
Life-cycle management and maintenance of screening systems and peripherals
Continuous workflow optimization to meet the changing needs of our Project Teams
Collaborate with data scientists, informatics, and automation colleagues to establish robust and sustainable end-to-end solutions that address data management/mining bottlenecks and work towards a fully digital lab infrastructure

Successful candidates will be scientifically curious, creative, and collaborative, with a passion for lead discovery and a mindset of continuous learning in a matrix environment. As a member of the Screening community, you will benefit from a network possessing extensive experience in lead discovery and achieve satisfaction in a career that you can feel passionate about.

Education/Experience Requirements:

BS degree with 3+ years in Automated Sciences and/or Biology with relevant automation and in vitro assay experience
MS degree with 0+ years

We are a research-driven biopharmaceutical company. Our mission is built on the simple premise that if we "follow the science" that great medicines can make a significant impact to our world. 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.

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Expected salary range:
$72,200.00 - $122,900.00

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Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:
Yes

Travel Requirements:
No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Shift:

Valid Driving License:
No

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Number of Openings:
3

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Job Post Date: 11/03/22