Senior Data Scientist, Agentic AI Systems

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AxleBioscience IT
Remote position within the United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary130,000 - 150,000 USD per year
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Experience
At least 5 years building and operating production software or data systems, including 2 years shipping LLM-powered applications.
Required Skills
PostgreSQLPythonKubernetesFastAPICI/CD

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • At least 5 years building and operating production software or data systems.
  • At least 2 years shipping LLM-powered applications (agents, retrieval, or evaluation).
  • Experience with structured output, tool/function calling, and schema validation.
  • Experience building evaluation systems for non-deterministic AI tasks.
  • Ability to own a service end-to-end from schema design through deployment and operation.
  • Proficiency in Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, and pytest.
  • Strong understanding of LLM application engineering (prompt design, context, structured generation, tracing).
  • Experience with PostgreSQL including embeddings and vector search.
  • Experience with containerization and Kubernetes for operational deployment.
  • Experience with Git-based CI/CD workflows.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Security clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Build agentic AI systems including conversation logic and confirmation steps for rare disease research workflows.
  • Model outputs in Pydantic using structured output and tool calling to ensure typed, validated, and traceable data.
  • Write, version, and regression test prompts for clinical and scientific reasoning tasks.
  • Develop evaluation systems using golden sets, offline regression suites, and model-based graders.
  • Ensure LLM workflows are performant under load, implementing async design and failure handling.
  • Log system actions, latency, and reasoning to ensure transparency for staff review.
  • Translate research requirements into data models and system behavior.
  • Contribute to manuscripts, conference abstracts, and posters as an author.
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