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Director, Data Science, Foundation Model AI

Merck
Location 📍 Cambridge, United States
Posted 📅 June 06, 2026
Work Type ⏰ Full-time

Position Overview

**Job Description**

Our Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) capabilities are critical accelerators of our mission to invent new medicines that save and improve lives. Core to the Data, AI, and Genome Sciences (DAGS) function is an AI/ML-first approach to improving target and biomarker discovery, validation, and selection, and elucidating complex disease mechanisms. As Director of foundational AI, you will be responsible for leading a team of machine learning researchers and engineers, overseeing both large foundation model development and the development of bespoke methods for extracting insights from noisy biological data. Your work will advance our understanding of complex diseases and support the development of innovative therapeutic strategies. In this pursuit, you will have at your disposal high-performance clusters with several hundred state-of-the-art GPUs, access to biological, computational, and engineering experts from across our company and external...

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Job Details

Employment Type
Full-time
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Category
other-general
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Work Arrangement
On-site
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Location
Cambridge, United States