Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Discovery Chemistry

Merck & Co., Inc.

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Merck is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and consumer health products, as well as animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company – one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of people like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.

Be a part of the legacy: MRL Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program.

The Merck Research Laboratories (MRL) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program aims to be a best-in-industry program for industrial postdoctoral researchers, designed to provide you with an academic focus in a commercial environment. With the resources, reach, and expertise of a large pharmaceutical company, postdoctoral researchers will be positioned to excel in an institution committed to breakthrough innovation in research and discovery.

Position Overview:

 

As a postdoctoral research fellow in Merck’s Discovery Chemistry department you will work with a highly collaborative team of scientists from the Medicinal Chemistry, Automation, Catalysis and In Vitro Pharmacology groups. You will work in a creative environment at the forefront of technology enabled synthesis to discover and develop new synthetic routes to biologically relevant small molecules. Experimental design will include miniaturized parallel synthesis, chemistry automation and in-line measurement of biological activity.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Leading the development and implementation of techniques to couple miniaturized parallel synthesis to in-line biochemical analysis.
• Designing and implementing synthetic routes to complex small molecules.
• Executing high-throughput experimentation chemistry techniques to develop parallel synthetic routes to biologically relevant small molecules.
• Leveraging high-throughput mass spectrometry and other state of the art analytical tools at the interface of chemistry and biology.
• Utilizing advanced lab automation hardware and software tools in pursuit of these goals.

Education Minimum Requirement:

• PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry or PhD in Analytical Chemistry with a background in Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Required Experience and Skills:

• PhD, or met all the requirements for a PhD by June 2015, with 3 years or less postdoctoral experience
• Experience in synthetic method development or total synthesis.
• Experience with modern analytical techniques in a chemical or biochemical setting.
• Proven ability to independently design experiments, interpret data and incorporate data into new experimental designs leading to successful experimental outcomes.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Strong history of publication in peer-reviewed journals
• Demonstrated aptitude for learning new software platforms, analytical instrumentation or liquid handling robotics
• Demonstrated aptitude with new technologies

Our employees are the key to our company’s success. We demonstrate our commitment to our employees by offering a competitive and valuable rewards program. Merck’s benefits are designed to support the wide range of goals, needs and lifestyles of our employees, and many of the people that matter the most in their lives.

Merck is an equal opportunity employer, M/F/D/V – proudly embracing diversity in all of its manifestations. Former Military, Transitioning Service Members, National Guard & Reserves - We value your past and present service.

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