Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC seeks Senior Specialist, Data Science in Rahway, NJ to work with our partners across organization to create scalable and production-grade Al/ML products. Work with scrum team of data scientists, business analysts, data engineers, and subject matter experts to design and create machine learning models and retraining systems. Work with team to put model prototype in production by making scalable and efficient models (parallelizing, using appropriate libraries, adding basic efficiencies from the code/data/architecture etc.). Create model governance architecture for retention (upon drift). Create architecture/framework for performance evaluation and feedback loop. Select analytical techniques and model methods best to solve business problems. Enable delivery of data-analytics projects and understand complexity/dependencies between multiple teams and platforms. Communicate intensively with other platform/competencies to comprehend new trends and methodologies within company ecosystem. Understand customer/stakeholders business needs/priorities and help build solutions that support our business goals. Establish and manage close relationship with customers/stakeholders. Oversee DS market development to explore new ways of delivering analytics solutions to increase tvalue/contribution. Build "community of practice” leveraging experience from delivering complex analytics projects. Develop production-grade models and deliver solutions with high quality standards, timeliness, compliance and excellent user experience. Contribute to innovative experiments, specifically to idea generation, idea incubation and/or experimentation, identifying tangible and measurable criteria. Up to 25% domestic/international travel required. Telecommuting permitted.LOCATION:Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, 126 East Lincoln Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065REQUIREMENTS:Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field and 2 years of experience in the position offered or related. Must have 2 years of experience with all of the following: applied Machine Learning (ML) in cloud environment such as AWS; writing production-grade ML code; coding Python, R, Scala, Java or any other OOP language; ETL tools for data flow management and pre-processing using SQL or shell scripting; utilizing TensorFlow or Torch libraries; working with software intelligence platform such as SageMaker, Databricks, or MLfiowSpark; working within distributed computing environment; using cloud-based SQL & noSQL databases (Redshift, S3, BQ, Athena, and Mongo) to access and analyze data; project management and data analytics project delivery; and translating business processes into user stories and detailed business requirements.SUBMIT RESUME OR CONTACT:Apply at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en. Reference job R307774.