Merck Group
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Job Description
Work Your Magic with us!
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That’s why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
Your Role:
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for our AI-ML product portfolio, you will be responsible for the design, development, and production-grade deployment of AI-ML products and their features. You will work in close collaboration with product owner(s), data scientist(s), platform engineer(s), and architect(s) in feature realization, prototyping, engineering, and industrialization. Features can be integrations with public or in-house proprietary platforms/databases, products within our Data & AI ecosystem, AI-ML APIs (open-source in-house hosted or external SaaS APIs), and/or LLM agents that collectively are bound to offer scalable and reliable engines that can operate within a microservice architecture. You will operate within agile design and delivery cycles, informing and influencing our reference architecture through feedback based on your first-hand experience. The ideal candidate will be thorough with emerging technologies, products, and applications and can customize them to help our business become more secure and efficient. Your contribution will make a lasting impact on our customers and our organization and elevate AI-ML product strategy to the next level!
Who you are:
• You have a degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or similar fields
• Minimum 5 years of experience in design, development, and production-grade deployment of (Gen-)AI, ML, and/or NLP applications
• You can manage technical stakeholders like developers/engineers within the product development team.
• Experience with tools and techniques used in the framework of traditional data science such as predictive modeling, forecasting, recommender engines, or similar areas is necessary.
• Experience with cloud-native AI-ML services offered by AWS (preferred) and/or Azure.
• Experience with LLM application development frameworks such as Langchain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, or Semantic Kernel is highly desired.
• Experience with good API design practices, containerization, microservices, and deployment with container orchestration services such as AWS ECS or Kubernetes is necessary.
• Experience with version control (git), automated testing, continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring
• Experience with open-source or proprietary vector databases such as FAISS, Qdrant, or similar technologies is a plus.
• Experience with popular libraries for Transformers models with the ability to fine-tune and performance-tune is a plus
• Experience with MLOps and AI-ML Observability frameworks and hands-on experience with deployment and life cycle management of AI/ML/NLP models is a bonus
• You can work cross-functionally.
What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and believe that it drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!
Apply now and become a part of our diverse team!