Merck
Scientist, Laboratory Automation
Job Description

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where our company has codified its legacy for over a century. Our company's success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

Our company is on the quest for cures and is committed to be the world’s premier, most research-intensive biopharmaceutical company. Today we’re doubling down on this goal. Our company's Research Laboratories is a true scientific research facility of tomorrow and will take our company's leading discovery capabilities and world-class small molecule, biologics, vaccine R&D expertise to create breakthrough science that radically changes the way we approach serious diseases.

Scientists in the Automation team within Data Science, Automation, and Translational Analyitics (DATA) contribute to the vaccine and biologic therapeutic area through development, optimization, validation, clinical and pre-clinical testing. This specific position will support the automation team and the individual should have a knowledge of the principles and concepts of various biology assays as it pertains to method development and sample testing using various liquid handlers and laboratory equipment. The successful candidate will provide input into the design of experiments to optimize methods with laboratory equipment and automation in addition so sample preparation as needed.

The responsibilities of the Scientist will be to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment to operate automated laboratory equipment and systems to the support of the vaccines and biologics pre-clinical and clinical studies. The candidate will be able to leverage the understanding of laboratory equipment impacting bioanalytical procedures supporting pre-clinical and clinical studies.

Qualifications

Education Minimum Requirement:

Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Automated Sciences, Computer Science, Biology, Chemistry or equivalent with scientific expertise with laboratory equipment in the development and execution of assays in a regulated bioanalytical environment.

Responsibilities

Operate various automated systems and laboratory equipmentFirst line of defense in instrument troubleshooting, error recovery.Develop/update operations SOPsManage data integrity through the automated processWork jointly with department members, IT, and across functional teams to contribute to operate and support our screening infrastructure including our clinical screening libraries, lab instrumentation and robotic platforms, and development of novel data handling and analysis workflows.Collaborate to identify, evaluate, and recommend novel and cutting-edge automation and assay strategies to drive our discovery programs, including machine learning and artificial intelligence.Ability to oversee and drive the design, planning and execution of robust automation strategies to support various vaccine program clinical assayContribute to the validation and implementation of novel automated workflows.

Required Experience And Skills

Experience with commercial liquid handling systems: (e.g. Cellario, Beckman, Labcyte, Tecan, Hamilton, Brooks)Good verbal and written communicationIndividual understands they have full accountability for the data they generate

Preferred Experience And Skills

Experience working in pharmaceutical or biotech company and/or laboratory experienceAssay developmentElectro-Mechanical design/assembly skillsUse of electronic laboratory notebooks

Your role at our company is integral to helping the world meet new breakthroughs that affect generations to come, and we’re counting on your skills and inventiveness to help make meaningful contributions to global medical advancement. At our company, we’re inventing for life.

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Employee Status

Regular

Relocation:

Domestic

VISA Sponsorship

No

Travel Requirements

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements

Not Applicable

Shift

1st - Day

Valid Driving License

No

Hazardous Material(s)

n/a

Requisition ID:R291189
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