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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 21 days Axle's roles stay open a median of 26 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Axle's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Axle
- high 20 stale, 0 reposted of 53 open
- Hiring momentum
- 102 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Axle's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Axle.
About this role
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
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Axle as an employer.
What you need
- 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 you get
- 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)
Worth weighing
- 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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Listed by Axle on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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