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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
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About this role
As a Senior Data Scientist focused on AI Retrieval Systems, you will develop and manage the data layer and retrieval services for rare disease research at the NIH. Your responsibilities include modeling biomedical knowledge, building retrieval-augmented services, and creating user interfaces for presenting results. You will also deploy systems in Kubernetes environments and contribute to academic publications alongside NIH investigators.
- 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 in LLM-powered applications
- Experience building retrieval systems end to end
- Experience evaluating systems with metrics like Recall@K and MRR
- 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 biomedical ontologies and controlled vocabularies
- Grounding model output in domain terminology through embedding-based retrieval
- Experience with Helm and deployment to on-premises or HPC Kubernetes environments
- Serving open-weight models in production
- 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 involves significant collaboration with NIH program staff and clinical geneticists
- Expect to learn about rare diseases and ontologies if not already familiar
- Market-competitive salary range provided, but actual salaries vary based on experience and location
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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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