Senior Director of Data, AI & Modeling

Axle; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

401K match

Educational Benefits

Employee Referral Bonus

FSA benefits

Job summary

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 across data engineering, AI/ML and modeling to build capabilities that make complex research data more useful, reproducible, and actionable.

The goals this position fills are ambitious; turn difficult scientific problems into durable systems, establish standards, develop emerging leaders, and connect

Qualifications

• Eight+ years in software/data/ML/computational science.
• Five+ years leading multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Experience designing, building, deploying, and operating production-grade data/AI/software systems.
• Strong judgment across modern data and AI architectures, distributed processing, CI/CD, MLOps or LLMOps, observability, and production operations.
• Proven ability to move analytical or AI/ML work from research/prototyping into production use.
• Experience building large data pipelines with data quality, lineage, reproducibility.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for data platforms, AI/ML systems, and modeling capabilities.
• Design and operate data systems for large heterogeneous datasets.
• Lead development of AI/ML capabilities with measurable scientific or operational value.
• Build/modeling/simulation practices with standards for reproducible workflows.
• Improve production practices: testing, CI/CD, observability, release management.

Skills

Leadership experience

Data engineering

AI/ML engineering

Software engineering

Communication

Education

Advanced degree in CS or quantitative field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Containerization

Observability

Workflow orchestration

Job 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 across data engineering, AI/ML and modeling to build capabilities that make complex research data more useful, reproducible, and actionable.

The goals this position fills are ambitious; turn difficult scientific problems into durable systems, establish standards, develop emerging leaders, and connect