Junior Data Scientist - 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?
Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.
Animal Health IT Advanced Analytics team in MSD is looking for a part time junior data scientist to join our team. Our team serves Animal Health across all business areas: manufacturing, finance, R&D and development, commercial and supply chain.
We are looking for a student who will work on Monte Carlo simulation projects under the guidance of more experienced data scientists. The projects may potentially require developing new statistical methodology or implementing new models and numerical methods. The position is a good fit for talented master’s and PhD students in mathematics, statistics, econometrics, physics, or other related technical programs with a strong emphasis on statistical theory and modelling.
Primary job responsibilities include:
- Analyse and understand research problems.
- Implement new solutions, models, and computational procedures – mainly in R.
- Present ideas, progress, and results.
- Analyse and understand the existing code base in R.
- Work with multiple collaboration DevOps tools such as JIRA, Git, and Confluence.
- Run computationally demanding programs in the cloud.
- Further responsibilities might be related to common data science, including exploratory data analysis, running standard statistical models and tests, and drawing high-level conclusions from the data.
- Qualifications and Education Minimum Requirement
- Studying mathematics, statistics, econometrics, physics, or related fields. Master’s and PhD students are strongly preferred.
Desired Experience and Skills:
- Passion for mathematics and good-quality code.
Desired Aspirations Towards Following Experience and Skills:
- Familiarity with R language required, experience in Julia, Matlab, or Python is an advantage.
- The ability to propose and implement a simulation, model, method, or algorithm is a major advantage.
- Knowledge in one or more of the following areas: mathematical analysis, numerical methods, modelling, probability theory, statistical inference, stochastic processes, econometrics, optimization, and Monte Carlo simulation.
- Broad communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to make presentations for business, to interpret and use the analytics results within the real business context.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to work with incomplete or imperfect data.
- 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 world's 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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