Data Science Fellow - AI/NLP

<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma';">(ID: 2026-2316)<br> <p><strong>Axle</strong> is a bioscience and information technology company that offers advancements in translational research, biomedical informatics, and data science applications to research centers and healthcare organizations nationally and abroad. With experts in biomedical science, software engineering, and program management, we focus on developing and applying research tools and techniques to empower decision-making and accelerate research discoveries. We work with some of the top research organizations and facilities in the country including multiple institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).</p> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma';"> <p><strong>Benefits We Offer:</strong></p> <ul> <li>100% Medical, Dental &amp; Vision Coverage for Employees</li> <li>Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays</li> <li>401K match up to 5%</li> <li>Educational Benefits for Career Growth</li> <li>Employee Referral Bonus</li> <li>Flexible Spending Accounts: <ul> <li>Healthcare (FSA)</li> <li>Parking Reimbursement Account (PRK)</li> <li>Dependent Care Assistant Program (DCAP)</li> <li>Transportation Reimbursement Account (TRN)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="ck-content" style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 11pt;" data-wrapper="true"> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to develop AI/NLP and knowledge engineering methods that transform biomedical literature, experimental protocols, and source evidence into structured, quarriable, and evidence-grounded knowledge for organoid protocol standardization and optimization.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">The postdoc will work at the intersection of large language models, biomedical NLP, scientific document understanding, knowledge graphs, ontology grounding, computational biology, and human-in-the-loop curation. Potential projects include LLM-based protocol extraction, retrieval-augmented literature mining, curated knowledge graph construction, ontology and entity normalization, protocol comparison, consensus protocol derivation, benchmark design, and natural-language interfaces over structured biological knowledge.</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="eab49d7cab45bdf0029624d6917377841"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Design and implement AI/NLP methods for biomedical literature mining and structured protocol knowledge extraction.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="eb4745f01ff266a5ff6ba8d4e7dd3c377"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Develop benchmark datasets, annotation guidelines, and evaluation pipelines for scientific information extraction.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="ebc8c8d3dd505b76cc31b67185d5e4e27"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Build and evaluate RAG, in-context learning, fine-tuning, graph matching, entity normalization, and KG query workflows.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="e1a014f8655be3aa023bbb31af91a3e46"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Analyze extraction errors, model behavior, retrieval failures, grounding quality, and biological ambiguity.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="e6b1ff5e7faa2188219a6127d4fa424b7"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Collaborate with software engineers to integrate research methods into usable tools and reproducible pipelines.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="e5df6ed9dad93b9489f358c1b18a5e7b6"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Collaborate with organoid biologists and domain experts to translate biological protocol knowledge into computable representations.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="ef5a03b2495f9036c020384e6d6ba1b36"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Prepare manuscripts, conference abstracts, technical reports, design documents, and open-source research artifacts.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="e204131ec7ce8e7e5c721dd409db401c4"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Help define research milestones, evaluation criteria, and publication strategy for protocol intelligence work.</span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="ef26eb958750af05b1d93f411c16da038"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">PhD in computer science, computational biology, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, NLP, machine learning, data science, or a related field.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="e63f60d17da8794e08a599ee78cf91b11"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Strong Python programming skills.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="e8ac1568e4ada2891840d20623b94e78f"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrated research experience with NLP, information extraction, LLMs, RAG, transformers, structured prediction, or scientific text mining.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="e600b29d8de8a6f795aea6b813c3e4115"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Ability to design controlled computational experiments, create benchmark datasets, and analyze results rigorously.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="ec97df7d5256b51fc16127090a69a84d2"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Familiarity with biological, biomedical, or scientific data.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="e20a0bb17d74dfcd74fefbedf83a9e16c"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Strong written communication skills and interest in publishing methods-oriented research.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="ea0bc7348885ffcf0fe4ec20f7b32ea96"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Comfort working with complex, evolving research codebases and interdisciplinary teams.</span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;">&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="ef99a74e4795c99ea02688fc826b60986"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Experience with scientific document processing, PDF parsing, biomedical literature mining, or methods-section extraction.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="e1190cf269e8ec813c2d39a1100d7b32a"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Experience with knowledge graphs, ontologies, graph databases, graph algorithms, or semantic data modeling.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="eee23a9d7274a18261b43cdd2f35404ec"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Hands-on experience with fine-tuning LLMs, LoRA/QLoRA, Hugging Face, PyTorch, or API-based model evaluation.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="e70eb44192eb16205575dfe54b492403a"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Hands-on experience with prompt engineering, structured JSON extraction, schema validation, tool use, or agentic LLM workflows.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="e249ea0ad5a8c1d13f4a903d0bd93f7a5"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Hands-on experience with RAG systems, vector search, graph-augmented retrieval, or natural-language query over structured data.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="ee1ea523d395400b476b4e4fc7baef705"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Exposure to bioinformatics concepts (e.g., sequence alignment, clustering, or phylogenetic analysis) that can inform protocol comparison and similarity methods.</span></p> </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" data-list-item-id="e9006c631cd953a873f946ca77e03c355"> <p style="margin: 0;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Background in stem cell biology, organoids, developmental biology, wet-lab protocols, or biological assays, enabling more effective collaboration with domain experts.</span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma'; text-align: center;"> <p><strong>Disclaimer:</strong> The above description is meant to illustrate the general nature of work and level of effort being performed by individuals assigned to this position or job description. This is not restricted as a complete list of all skills, responsibilities, duties, and/or assignments required. Individuals may be required to perform duties outside of their position, job description or responsibilities as needed.</p> <p>The diversity of Axle’s employees is a tremendous asset. We are firmly committed to providing equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and will not tolerate any illegal discrimination or harassment based on age, race, gender, religion, national origin, disability, marital status, covered veteran status, sexual orientation, status with respect to public assistance, and other characteristics protected under state, federal, or local law and to deter those who aid, abet, or induce discrimination or coerce others to discriminate.</p> <p>Accessibility: If you need an accommodation as part of the employment process please contact: <span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:careers@axleinfo.com" target=" _blank">careers@axleinfo.com</a> </span></p> <p>This role has a market-competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation range listed below. Actual salaries will vary depending on a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location.</p> </div><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Salary Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$90,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$100,000 USD</span></div></div></div>