Director, Oncology Data Science

Merck • Boston, MA, United States • Posted June 29, 2026

Location Boston, MA
Job Type Full-time
Category other-general
Posted June 29, 2026
**Job Description**

The Translational Genome Analytics group within the Data, AI & Genome Sciences Department is recruiting a Director of Oncology Biomarker Discovery to join an oncology data science team dedicated to advancing our company's vast and expanding oncology pipeline, with a focus on multimodal biomarker discovery, validation, and implementation.

The successful candidate will:

+ Investigate proprietary and public real-world molecular datasets and clinical trials in conjunction with tissue and periphery assays with a goal of identifying robust multimodal biomarkers of response and resistance to an array of cancer therapies across indications and lines of therapy, with line of sight to diagnostic development.
+ Leverage advanced AI/ML approaches to integrate multi-modal data including RNAseq, WES, ctDNA, digital pathology, proteomics, immune activation assays, and liquid biopsies to discover biomarkers and molecularly defined groups of patients as...

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