Associate Scientist, Postdoctoral Fellow - AI in Infectious Disease Modeling

Join Merck's Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program and contribute to breakthrough innovation in research and discovery. As an Associate Scientist, you will develop and support a seamless mechanism of coordination and collaboration in a dynamic area of interdisciplinary research, leveraging generative AI to automate model extraction and facilitate rapid, intelligent adaptation across diverse settings.

Requirements

• Build a robust corpus of health economic infectious disease models using AI-assisted systematic review techniques
• Utilize advanced LLMs to precisely extract infectious disease model type, structure (states, transitions), and parameters (costs, utilities, probabilities)
• Implement an intelligent AI reasoning layer to evaluate consistency, completeness, and scientific validity across extracted models
• Employ generative AI to propose new model structures, dynamically guided by disease-specific needs and prior evidence
• Apply the developed pipeline to critical case studies (e.g., RSV vaccine modeling) and rigorously compare AI-generated models with existing approaches
• Develop excellent working relationships within partner across our Research Laboratories; ensure effective cross-functional collaboration across teams
• Collaborate externally and solicit input from appropriate stakeholders and adopt latest techniques from relevant published literature
• Disseminate key research findings/methodology via scientific presentations at congresses and publications in scientific journals

Benefits

• Bonus eligibility
• Health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• Retirement benefits
• Paid holidays
• Vacation
• Sick days