[Hiring] Associate Director of Data and Modeling @Axle

Role Description

Axle Informatics is excited to open the search for an Associate Director of Data and Modeling to help shape the next generation of data-intensive biomedical research. This role will lead teams working across data engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning, scientific computing, and modeling and simulation to build capabilities that make complex research data more useful, reproducible, and actionable.

• Turn difficult scientific and technical problems into durable systems.
• Create conditions for highly technical teams to do their best work.
• Ensure promising ideas become reliable capabilities that researchers can trust.

This is not a role for someone who has only advised technical teams from a distance. The Associate Director must bring the judgment that comes from having personally designed, built, deployed, and operated complex data, software, AI/ML, or scientific computing systems.

• Engage deeply enough to recognize weak assumptions.
• Ask questions that change a design.
• Help teams resolve difficult technical tradeoffs.
• Know when an experimental approach is ready for production.

The role is larger than any single architecture, model, or platform. You will build and lead multidisciplinary teams, establish shared technical standards, develop emerging leaders, strengthen operating systems for predictable delivery, and create reusable approaches for multiple research programs.

Our vision is a future where data, models, simulations, workflows, and analytical tools can be used together with less friction and greater confidence. We value scientific rigor, technical craftsmanship, reproducibility, openness, and service to the research community.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of progressively responsible experience in software engineering, data engineering, machine learning engineering, computational science, data science, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Five or more years of leadership experience building and guiding multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Demonstrated experience personally designing, building, deploying, and operating production-grade data, AI/ML, software, or scientific computing systems.
• Strong technical judgment across modern data and AI architectures.
• Demonstrated success moving analytical or AI/ML work from research to reliable production use.
• Experience building or leading large and complex data pipelines.
• Experience leading modeling, simulation, scientific computing, or computational research work.
• Ability to review technical designs, identify risk, and resolve difficult engineering problems.
• Experience delivering technical systems in research-intensive, regulated, or high-governance environments.
• Strong communication skills.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in computer science, bioinformatics, computational biology, data science, engineering, applied mathematics, physics, or another quantitative discipline.
• Prior experience as a software engineer, data engineer, machine learning engineer, computational scientist, or equivalent hands-on technical practitioner.
• Experience leading organizations of approximately 20 or more engineers, scientists, and technical specialists.
• Experience with biomedical or health data platforms and standards.
• Experience with high-performance computing and large-scale scientific workflows.
• Experience deploying Generative AI capabilities.
• Experience applying AI/ML to scientific imaging, genomics, or other high-dimensional biomedical datasets.
• Track record of technical publications, conference presentations, or open-source contributions.
• Experience working with NIH or other federal health and biomedical research organizations.
• Experience serving as a technical or solution lead for federal proposals.

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)

Company Description

Axle Informatics is a bioscience and information technology company committed to accelerating biomedical discovery through data science, software engineering, scientific computing, and research technology.