Machine Learning Intern Job in Point, Pennsylvania US
Machine Learning Intern
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. The Future Talent Program features paid internships targeted to start in June 2012 for 10 - 12 weeks and will include one or more projects. Housing is available for those interns meeting the housing distance guideline. These opportunities can provide you with great development and a chance to see if we are the right company for your long-term goals. The Machine Learning Intern is responsible for but not limited to the following: Apply machine learning methodology to develop solutions for forecasting the safety of drugs in development. Designing and implementing novel algorithms and running existing solutions on new datasets. Qualifications Education: Enrolled in PhD program in a relevant quantitative field (e.g. Comp Sci/Stats/Comp Bio, etc.) Required: The candidate should have under-the-hood knowledge of many of these machine learning concepts: Supervised/unsupervised learning, loss functions, regularization, feature selection, regression/classification, cross-validation, bagging, kernel methods, graphical models, mixture models, sampling, probability distributions, etc. Available full-time beginning June 2012 for 10-12 weeks Preferred: Application of these techniques to solve biological problems will be considered an added asset. 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. To be considered for this position, please visit our career site at www.merck.com/careers to create a profile and submit your resume for requisition #TEC000449. Merck is an equal opportunity employer, M/F/D/V - proudly embracing diversity in all of its manifestations.