Associate Scientist, Post Doc Fellow- Computational Immunology
$82k - $92kFull-time
Merck
Job Description Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics in Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases
We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join a cross-functional translational research team focused on understanding the cellular and tissue mechanisms underlying chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. The successful candidate will leverage large-scale single-cell and spatial transcriptomics datasets from human tissue cohorts to identify disease-driving cellular programs, tissue microenvironments, and translational biomarkers. This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the interface of computational biology, immunology, spatial genomics, and translational medicine while contributing to high-impact research programs spanning multiple therapeutic areas. The project aims to transform emerging multi-omics datasets into biological insights, biomarker hypotheses, disease-mechanism models, and translational strategies relevant to immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, including hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) and related disorders.
The fellow will:
Scientific Impact
The successful candidate will contribute to the development of comprehensive cellular and spatial atlases of chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, generating insights into disease circuits, tissue microenvironments, biomarker biology, and translational mechanisms. The work is expected to result in multiple high-impact publications and presentations while providing foundational knowledge to support therapeutic discovery and development. This research will help advance our understanding of how cellular programs and tissue organization contribute to disease pathogenesis and therapeutic response, enabling more precise approaches to target discovery, biomarker identification, and patient stratification.
The postdoctoral fellow will lead three interconnected research areas:
Build Cellular Atlases of Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications
Education Minimum Requirement:
Required Skills and Experience:
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. - • - The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable. - • - We offer a comprehensive package of benefits.•Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. Required Skills:
Bioinformatics, Biomarkers, Disease Research, High Performance Computing (HPC), Machine Learning (ML), Researching, Signaling Pathways, Systems Biology, Transcriptomics, Translational Medicine Preferred Skills: Current Employees apply HERE Current Contingent Workers apply HERE US and Puerto Rico Residents Only: Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process. As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.--As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.- For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit: EEOC Know Your Rights EEOC GINA Supplement• We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively. Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts The salary range for this role is
$87,300.00 - $137,400.00 This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits.- Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at . You can apply for this role through (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting. San Francisco Residents Only: -We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Los Angeles Residents Only: -We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully-
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. -No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.- Employee Status:
Regular Relocation:
Domestic VISA Sponsorship:
Yes Travel Requirements:
10% Flexible Work Arrangements:
Not Applicable Shift:
Not Indicated Valid Driving License:
No Hazardous Material(s):
N/A Job Posting End Date:
10/19/2026
*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE -the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date. Requisition ID: R420980
We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join a cross-functional translational research team focused on understanding the cellular and tissue mechanisms underlying chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. The successful candidate will leverage large-scale single-cell and spatial transcriptomics datasets from human tissue cohorts to identify disease-driving cellular programs, tissue microenvironments, and translational biomarkers. This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the interface of computational biology, immunology, spatial genomics, and translational medicine while contributing to high-impact research programs spanning multiple therapeutic areas. The project aims to transform emerging multi-omics datasets into biological insights, biomarker hypotheses, disease-mechanism models, and translational strategies relevant to immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, including hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) and related disorders.
Career Development Opportunities
The fellow will:
- Receive mentorship from experts across computational biology, immunology, translational medicine, and drug discovery.
- Publish first-author manuscripts in leading scientific journals.
- Present at major international scientific conferences.
- Develop expertise in cutting-edge single-cell, spatial, and multi-omics technologies.
- Build a strong interdisciplinary network across academia and industry.
- Gain experience translating complex biological datasets into actionable therapeutic insights.
Scientific Impact
The successful candidate will contribute to the development of comprehensive cellular and spatial atlases of chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, generating insights into disease circuits, tissue microenvironments, biomarker biology, and translational mechanisms. The work is expected to result in multiple high-impact publications and presentations while providing foundational knowledge to support therapeutic discovery and development. This research will help advance our understanding of how cellular programs and tissue organization contribute to disease pathogenesis and therapeutic response, enabling more precise approaches to target discovery, biomarker identification, and patient stratification.
Research Objectives
The postdoctoral fellow will lead three interconnected research areas:
Build Cellular Atlases of Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases
- Develop comprehensive single-cell transcriptomic references from diseased and comparator tissues.
- Identify disease-associated immune, epithelial, stromal, and vascular cell states.
- Harmonize and annotate cellular populations across cohorts and studies.
- Characterize molecular pathways and regulatory programs that drive disease heterogeneity.
- Define shared and disease-specific cellular mechanisms across inflammatory conditions.
- Analyze spatial transcriptomics datasets to localize disease-associated cell states within tissue architecture.
- Characterize cellular neighborhoods and multicellular interaction networks in situ.
- Identify tissue microenvironments associated with inflammation, remodeling, fibrosis, and disease progression.
- Develop computational frameworks for spatial niche discovery and tissue organization analysis.
- Integrate spatial and single-cell datasets to generate mechanistic hypotheses regarding disease biology.
- Evaluate target expression and pathway activity across cellular and spatial contexts.
- Identify biomarkers associated with disease biology, therapeutic response, and patient stratification.
- Characterize disease endotypes and molecular signatures linked to clinical heterogeneity.
- Integrate multimodal datasets to construct disease-mechanism and translational biology models.
- Generate hypotheses supporting therapeutic target evaluation and precision medicine approaches.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze large-scale single-cell RNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics, and related multi-omics datasets.
- Develop and implement computational methods for data integration, annotation, and interpretation.
- Apply advanced bioinformatics, statistical modeling, machine learning, and network biology approaches.
- Integrate transcriptomic, spatial, proteomic, and clinical data to generate biological insights.
- Collaborate closely with immunologists, translational scientists, clinicians, and computational researchers.
- Lead publication-quality analyses and prepare manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals.
- Present findings at internal scientific forums and external conferences.
- Contribute to the development of innovative analytical methods and reusable computational resources.
- Collaborate across Data, AI and Genome Sciences (DAGS), Immunology Discovery, and Translational Medicine teams.
Qualifications
Education Minimum Requirement:
- Must currently hold a PhD OR
- Receive a Ph.D. no later than spring 2027
- Ph.D. in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Genomics, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related discipline.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Strong programming skills in R and/or Python.
- Experience analyzing large-scale genomics or multi-omics datasets.
- Hands-on experience with GPU computing, HPC clusters, and AWS cloud environments for large-scale single-cell and spatial omics analyses.
- Ability to develop and optimize scalable computational pipelines for scRNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics, and multimodal biological data.
- Demonstrated publication record in computational biology, genomics, immunology, or related fields.
- Strong scientific communication, presentation, and collaborative skills.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Single-cell omics analysis workflows (e.g., Seurat, Scanpy, scVI, CellChat, MultiNicheNet, or related tools).
- Spatial transcriptomics platforms such as Xenium, CosMx, Visium, MERFISH, or related technologies.
- Background in immunology, inflammatory diseases, tissue biology, or translational research.
- Machine learning, network analysis, systems biology, or multimodal data integration.
- Familiarity with cloud computing and high-performance computing environments.
- Working with large-scale human cohort datasets.
- This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. - • - The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable. - • - We offer a comprehensive package of benefits.•Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. Required Skills:
Bioinformatics, Biomarkers, Disease Research, High Performance Computing (HPC), Machine Learning (ML), Researching, Signaling Pathways, Systems Biology, Transcriptomics, Translational Medicine Preferred Skills: Current Employees apply HERE Current Contingent Workers apply HERE US and Puerto Rico Residents Only: Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process. As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.--As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.- For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit: EEOC Know Your Rights EEOC GINA Supplement• We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively. Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts The salary range for this role is
$87,300.00 - $137,400.00 This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits.- Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at . You can apply for this role through (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting. San Francisco Residents Only: -We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Los Angeles Residents Only: -We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully-
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. -No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.- Employee Status:
Regular Relocation:
Domestic VISA Sponsorship:
Yes Travel Requirements:
10% Flexible Work Arrangements:
Not Applicable Shift:
Not Indicated Valid Driving License:
No Hazardous Material(s):
N/A Job Posting End Date:
10/19/2026
*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE -the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date. Requisition ID: R420980
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