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Senior Data Scientist, Agentic AI Systems

Axle
Location
Remote
Posted
25 days ago
Department
Data Science
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, or a related field (advanced degree preferred)
  • At least 5 years building and operating production software or data systems, with at least 2 years involving LLM-powered applications
  • Experience with structured output and tool or function calling
  • Experience evaluating systems with no single right answer
  • Ability to own a service end to end, from schema design through deployment and operation
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Security clearance
Nice to have
  • Experience with a typed agent framework such as Pydantic AI or LangGraph
  • Familiarity with LLM tracing and evaluation tooling
  • Experience serving open-weight models in production
  • Knowledge of biomedical ontologies and controlled vocabularies
  • Background in rare disease, clinical genetics, or translational research
What the job really is

As a Senior Data Scientist focused on Agentic AI Systems, you will develop conversational AI systems to support rare disease research at the NIH. Your responsibilities include building workflows that gather and validate information, ensuring the reliability of AI outputs, and collaborating with NIH staff and researchers. You will also contribute to academic publications and help set engineering standards for AI applications in this domain.

Benefits
  • 100% Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage for Employees
  • Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
  • 401K match up to 5%
  • Educational Benefits for Career Growth
  • Employee Referral Bonus
  • Flexible Spending Accounts: Healthcare (FSA), Parking Reimbursement Account (PRK), Dependent Care Assistant Program (DCAP), Transportation Reimbursement Account (TRN)
Things to weigh
  • Remote position within the United States
  • Role emphasizes engineering skills over domain knowledge; candidates without rare disease or ontology experience are still encouraged to apply
  • No salary listed in the main body of the posting, but a range is provided at the end
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