Associate Scientist, Postdoctoral Fellow - AI in Infectious Disease Modeling
MSD is a leading pharmaceutical company committed to breakthrough innovation in research and discovery. They are seeking an Associate Scientist, Postdoctoral Fellow in AI for Infectious Disease Modeling to develop and support health economic models using advanced AI techniques and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to enhance global health decision-making.
Responsibilities
- 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, and
- Disseminate key research findings/methodology via scientific presentations at congresses and publications in scientific journals
Skills
- Candidates should currently hold a PhD OR will receive a PhD by start of employment in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a closely-related quantitative field
- Previous experience with large language models (LLMs), natural language processing (NLP), or machine learning
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++, with experience in model fitting, simulation, and data extraction workflows
- Previous experience working on interdisciplinary research projects and/or working within interdisciplinary teams
- Ability to gather, organize, and synthesize complex information in order to draw conclusions and make recommendations
- Strong creative problem solving skills
- Strong interpersonal, networking, presentation, and communication skills
- Ability to communicate effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
- Experience in prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or evaluating large language models
- Previous experience of health economic modeling and cost-effectiveness analysis for infectious disease
Benefits
- Bonus eligibility
- Health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- Retirement benefits
- Paid holidays
- Vacation
- Sick days
- Hybrid
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