Senior Data Scientist, Agentic AI Systems

About this role

<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma';">&nbsp;</div> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma';">(ID: 2026-3432)</div> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma';">&nbsp;</div> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma';"><br><strong>Axle</strong> is a bioscience and information technology company that offers advancements in translational research, biomedical informatics, and data science applications to research centers and healthcare organizations nationally and abroad. With experts in biomedical science, software engineering, and program management, we focus on developing and applying research tools and techniques to empower decision-making and accelerate research discoveries. We work with some of the top research organizations and facilities in the country including multiple institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).</div> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma';"> <p><strong>Benefits We Offer:</strong></p> <ul> <li>100% Medical, Dental &amp; Vision Coverage for Employees</li> <li>Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays</li> <li>401K match up to 5%</li> <li>Educational Benefits for Career Growth</li> <li>Employee Referral Bonus</li> <li>Flexible Spending Accounts: <ul> <li>Healthcare (FSA)</li> <li>Parking Reimbursement Account (PRK)</li> <li>Dependent Care Assistant Program (DCAP)</li> <li>Transportation Reimbursement Account (TRN)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="First Paragraph" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"276295ed-5df2-5456-988c-5fdbab071054|1","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[469777841,"Charter",469777844,"Charter",469769226,"Charter",268442635,"21",201342446,"1",201342447,"5",201342448,"3",201342449,"1",469777842,"",469777843,"",201341986,"1",335559739,"180",335559738,"180",469775450,"First Paragraph",201340122,"2",134234082,"true",134233614,"true",469778129,"FirstParagraph",335572020,"1",469775498,"Body Text",469778324,"Body Text"]}">Axle is seeking a Senior Data Scientist, Agentic AI Systems to join our vibrant team supporting rare disease research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This is a Remote position within the United States.</span></span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":180,"335559739":180}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">Position Summary</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134245418":true,"134245529":true,"335559738":160,"335559739":80}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="First Paragraph">Roughly 25</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="First Paragraph"> to </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="First Paragraph">30 million people</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="First Paragraph"> in the United States live with a rare disease. There are somewhere between 7,000 and 10,000 distinct rare conditions, and the large majority have no FDA-approved treatment.</span></span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":180,"335559739":180}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="Body Text">Research on these conditions keeps running into the same obstacles. Published evidence for any one disease is thin and scattered across sources. The same clinical finding gets written down a dozen </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Body Text">different ways</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Body Text"> depending on who recorded it. And the people with the most at stake, patients and their families, are usually the least equipped to read </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Body Text">the specialist</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Body Text"> literature written about their own condition.</span></span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":180,"335559739":180}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="Body Text">Large language models are well suited to this class of problem, and the research programs we support are investing in applying them carefully. In this role you will build the conversational AI systems that sit between a person and the research infrastructure. These are multi-turn workflows that ask sensible follow-up questions in plain language, capture the answers as </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Body Text">validated</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Body Text"> structured data, and hand that structure off to the searches and analyses doing the scientific work. The emphasis is on systems people can rely on, which in practice means confirming every interpretation before it is saved and logging every automated decision so that it can be reviewed later.</span></span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":180,"335559739":180}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="Body Text">This is a senior individual contributor position. You will own major components from design through deployment, work directly with NIH program staff, clinical geneticists, and rare disease information specialists, and help set the engineering standards for how AI gets applied </span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Body Text">on</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="Body Text"> this team.</span></span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":180,"335559739":180}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">Core Responsibilities</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134245418":true,"134245529":true,"335559738":160,"335559739":80}">&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1002" data-list-defn-props="{"335551671":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="Compact" data-ccp-parastyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"eafb41c0-47a4-52dc-ac6b-3b5a7536b560|1","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[469777841,"Charter",469777844,"Charter",469769226,"Charter",268442635,"21",20134244