Associate Scientist, Post Doc Fellow, AI/ML & Computational Biology for Antigen Design
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This role pays less than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $172,175–$254,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $87k versus about $213k for comparable roles.
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MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme) is the international name for Merck & Co., a major U.S.-based pharmaceutical company.
MSD currently has 11 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $82,000–$92,000 across 11 roles with salary data.
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JOB TITLE: Associate Scientist, Postdoctoral Fellow – AI/ML and Agentic AI for Drug Discovery The Associate Scientist, Postdoctoral Fellow – AI/ML and Agentic AI for Drug Discovery joins the Modeling & Informatics team within Discovery Chemistry. This role involves designing, executing, and interpreting research to benchmark standard machine learning methods across internal and external drug discovery datasets. The fellow will drive an independent project to design and evaluate AI agent frameworks, refining agentic AI workflows to improve transparency, robustness, and decision-making. Key responsibilities include analyzing complex datasets using statistical tools and presenting findings in peer-reviewed journals. Required skills include Python, machine learning, cheminformatics, and computational chemistry. Preferred expertise includes large language models, LangChain, PyTorch, MLflow, and graph neural networks. The work focuses on automating and accelerating predictive modeling workflows to solve drug discovery challenges.
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