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Description
Job Title :
Director, Research Data Science
Location : San Diego
Position type : FLSA :
Full time
Exempt
Department : Finance ID :
AI Innovation
7100-2025-6
Strive to Bring a Profound Difference to our Patients
At Avidity Biosciences, we are passionate about the impact of every employee in realizing our vision of improving people's lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics. Avidity is revolutionizing the field of RNA with its proprietary AOCs, which are designed to combine the specificity of monoclonal antibodies with the precision of oligonucleotide therapies to address targets and diseases previously unreachable with existing RNA therapies. If you are a committed, solution-oriented thinker, join us in making a difference and become part of our growing culture that is integrated, collaborative, agile and focused on the needs of patients.
Avidity Biosciences, Inc.'s mission is to profoundly improve people's lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics - Antibody Oligonucleotide Conjugates (AOCs™). Utilizing its proprietary AOC platform, Avidity demonstrated the first-ever successful targeted delivery of RNA into muscle and is leading the field with clinical development programs for three rare muscle diseases : myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Avidity is broadening the reach of AOCs with its advancing and expanding pipeline, including programs in cardiology and immunology through internal discovery efforts and key partnerships. Avidity is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information about our AOC platform, clinical development pipeline, and people, please visit www.aviditybiosciences.com and engage with us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a hands-on Research Data Science Director with expertise in genomic data science, nucleotide modeling, and RNA therapeutics to join our AI & Machine Learning team. In this role, you will be our technical development lead, leveraging cutting-edge techniques and related deep learning models along with data science methods to analyze complex genomic datasets and siRNA data, advancing the discovery and development of RNA-based therapies.
You will work at the intersection of AI, computational biology, and genomics, collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and deploy machine learning models that drive innovation in drug discovery and therapeutic design. Reporting directly to the VP of AI / ML, this is a unique opportunity to impact our mission to deliver the next generation of transformative RNA therapeutics to patients. On the AI team at Avidity, everyone is a technical contributor, and you should be excited to build solutions to hard research questions.
What You Will Contribute
- Develop, fine-tune, and apply nucleotide-focused AI models (e.g., DNABERT, Transformer-based architectures) for genomic and transcriptomic analyses.
- Analyze gene expression datasets to optimize RNA-based therapeutic designs and identify key biological patterns.
- Build machine learning models for RNA therapeutics, including applications in sequence specificity, off-target prediction, and functional validation.
- Work with multi-omics data (e.g., RNAseq, proteomics) to integrate insights into model development and therapeutic strategy.
- Collaborate with research, technical development, and clinical teams to translate AI-driven insights into actionable results.
- Lead the development of computational tools and pipelines for nucleotide data analysis.
- Stay at the forefront of AI and genomic data science, exploring novel methodologies to improve the design and delivery of RNA-based therapies.
- Partner with stakeholders to develop and drive the computational research strategy to accelerate our drug discovery process
What We Seek
What We Will Provide to You
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Salary : $237,500 - $262,500
