Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Operations

• Play a key role in driving revenue, improving operational efficiency, and maximizing the value of the company’s intellectual property portfolio.
• Design, optimize, and manage revenue generation and tracking systems for out-license agreements and department initiatives.
• Interact with internal and external partners in licensing, customer service, accounting, and invoicing teams to ensure accuracy and timeliness of information.
• Conduct simple external negotiations with oversight to ensure agreement accuracy.
• Own and optimize existing systems to manage out-licensing agreements.
• Use Excel, various ERP systems, AdobeSign, Alliant, and LEDOX to organize legal documents and extract trackable events.
• Review newly-signed license agreements to extract trackable information.
• Build and maintain relationships with external licensees and internal partners.

Licensing Operations Manager

AI Engineer

• Own the architecture and evolution of a production-grade agentic system that enables autonomous experiment design and automated reporting at scale.
• Define and uphold engineering standards through hands-on code review, pairing, and concrete examples.
• Build and maintain shared agentic infrastructure that allows multiple programs to contribute specialized agents within a single governed platform.
• Own platform design decisions spanning data sources, access controls, agent composition patterns, scalability, and technical debt management.
• Lead the technical roadmap, guiding both internal engineers and external contractors.
• Ship production code, own CI/CD pipelines and observability, and drive robust testing and security practices for sensitive research data.
• Translate complex research and development requirements into reliable technical solutions and communicate them clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor developers and help the team navigate the evolving AI landscape.

Technology Lead, Agentic AI, R&D

Scientist

• Proactively pursuing and performing process development studies for the purification of therapeutic proteins using MilliporeSigma technologies such as sterile, depth, tangential flow and virus filtration and chromatography.
• Involvement in filter selection and sizing, process optimization, and technology transfer activities associated with the purification of new pharmaceuticals
• Provide consultation to customers through email or teleconference calls.
• Collaborate and work with customer process development groups in the Midwest region.
• Work collaboratively with a team of local MilliporeSigma account managers to provide technical expertise to local customers.
• Adequately document customer interfacing activities.
• Communicate and work effectively in cross-functional teams, influence technical approaches, and support strategy execution.

Licensing Operations Manager

Technology Lead, Agentic AI, R&D

Process Development Scientist