Associate Director, Data Science
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals · Boston, MA
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Jul 13, 2026
Boston, MA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits within a biopharmaceutical research group focused on rare neuroendocrine and metabolic diseases, where the primary work involves building AI-driven phenotyping pipelines, integrating clinical and genomic datasets, and developing predictive models using real-world and EMR data. The position suits a quantitatively trained scientist with hands-on experience in machine learning, statistical genetics, rare variant analysis, and production-grade data engineering across cloud environments.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Doctorate required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 2,200–16,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $122,874 (middle half $87,544–$162,374).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The title 'Associate Director of Data Science' carries no standard seniority level word (Junior/Mid/Senior/Staff/Principal), so the title states no level. The actual scope and ~5+ years requirement support a Senior classification.
The Ph.D. requirement is stated as a hard gate in the Qualifications section with no 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so the degree requirement is set to Doctorate.
AWS and GCP are listed together as cloud environment requirements; AWS is used as the primary skill name with GCP in alternatives. Azure is added as a well-known interchangeable substitute.
ICD, CPT, and SNOMED are listed together as coding systems for the same phenotyping requirement; ICD is used as the primary skill name with CPT and SNOMED in alternatives.
UK Biobank and All of Us are listed as example real-world datasets for the same EMR/EHR analysis requirement; UK Biobank is used as the primary with All of Us in alternatives.
RNA-seq, methylation analysis, and long-read sequencing are explicitly flagged as 'advantageous' (nice-to-have) in the qualifications, so they are marked as preferred.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
The role is described as remote-eligible or Boston-office-based, with a hybrid expectation for office-based candidates; remote is set to true as fully remote is explicitly offered.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): EMR/EHR data analysis, methylation analysis.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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