Job Title: | Principal Data Scientist – Clinical/Commercial (Director-level) |
Location: | San Diego, CA / Hybrid / Remote |
Position type: FLSA: | Full time Exempt |
Department: Finance ID: | Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning 7100-2025-1 |
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
As a Principal Data Scientist at Avidity, you will be a hands-on technical leader within Avidity’s AI & Machine Learning team, responsible for delivering impactful data-driven solutions across the company. This role requires a highly skilled data scientist with expertise in clinical and commercial data science—preferably with experience in analyzing claims data, clinical trial data, and/or longitudinal health studies. Experience in biological data science (e.g., RNAseq/Multi-Omics analysis) is also beneficial, but a secondary priority. You, and your future team, will also eventually support data science initiatives across the entire enterprise, so you should be excited to work with marketing, medical affairs, program management, HR, IT, Finance, Research, and everyone else.
In this role, you will be a key contributor from day one, working directly with teams across research, technical development & operations, clinical, commercial, G&A, and IT business partners. You will help develop and execute Avidity’s AI and data science roadmap and contribute directly to coding, model building, and data analysis, alongside leadership. At Avidity, we believe in “leading by doing”—even senior leaders are hands-on and our VP writes code every day. You will report directly to Avidity’s VP of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and this is an opportunity to contribute your leadership skills and eventually lead a team while staying deeply involved in technical work.
What You Will Contribute
What We Seek
Even if you don’t have every bullet on this list but think you’re the right fit, reach out and tell us why. We’d love to hear from you.
Avidity Biosciences | 10578 Science Center Dr. Suite 125 | San Diego, CA | 92121 | O: 858-401-7900 | F: 858-401-7901 |
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