Junior Data Scientist Intern - Part time for a student

We’re looking for students of Czech Universities, who are interested in a long-term collaboration with MSD.

Did you always want to work in a company where your work can have a real impact? Do you enjoy working in an international environment with lots of room for personal development? Are you ready to join a company where we cherish Diversity and Inclusion and the wellbeing of our employees?

Animal Health IT Advanced Analytics team in MSD is looking for a part time junior data scientist to join our team. We are currently exploring projects that involve vaccines and viral sequence clustering. The successful student data scientist will work alongside experienced data scientists who will mentor on technical level and help grow.

Primary job responsibilities include:

• Being part of bigger team that is delivering DS solution across projects in AH which means:
• Understanding of the business context of the decisions to be supported at the level appropriate to junior position
• Analysis and understanding of the existing code base in R
• Developing and/or improving the functions of the product in the context of a given high-level architecture
• Writing unit tests and functional tests for existing and new functions
• Staying up to date with the most recent development in R and its packages
• Working with multiple collaboration DevOps tool such as JIRA, Git and Confluence
• Further responsibilities might be related to core data science including exploratory data analysis, running simple statistical tests, and drawing high-level conclusions from the data

Qualifications and Education Minimum Requirement

• Studying Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Economics, or another related field. Master’s and PhD students preferred.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Passion for machine learning, and good quality code
• Some understanding of biology
• Experience with R

Advantage, knowledge or experience in one or more of the following areas:

• mathematical analysis and modelling
• probability
• phylogenetic analysis
• clustering
• HPC or cloud computing
• Shiny
• advanced visualization skills

Desired Aspirations Towards Following Experience and Skills:

• The ability to formulate algorithms and statistical models, analyse them, program them, and run simulations in appropriate system
• Broad communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to make presentations for business
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to work with incomplete or imperfect data, including ability to interpret and use the analytics results within the real business context
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a globally dispersed team.

Besides a great atmosphere and flexible working environment, we also offer:

• Hourly wage
• Multinational environment in the leading pharma corporation
• Meal vouchers and Multisport card
• Development program (every month trainings, workshops, networking events, etc.)
• Flexible working hours
• Friendly working environment
• Possibility of challenging career

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 worlds 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 …

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing For Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.

Invent. Impact. Inspire.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Please note our third party recruitment partner, will retain and employ successful applicants for this program.

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Requisition ID:P-100825