AI Biologist: Pathogen Countermeasures (Remote)

LatchBio; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote-friendly culture

Job summary

LatchBio seeks an AI Biologist to lead ground-truth testing for pathogen countermeasures, shaping how AI agents reason about vaccines, antibodies, and antivirals against respiratory viruses.

You will build tasks from real workflows, curate datasets with neutralization titers and resistance markers, and set the standard outputs AI systems must meet. Remote-friendly with onsite SF options, equity opportunities accompany a strong science-driven culture.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in vaccine/antibody or antiviral development, preferably for respiratory viruses (influenza, RSV, or coronaviruses).
• Deep expertise in vaccines/antibodies or antivirals with data interpretation skills.
• AI-ready: daily use of Claude, ChatGPT, or similar, with judgment to spot scientifically wrong outputs.

Responsibilities

• Turn real countermeasure workflows into tasks with clear, gradable answers.
• Write gold-standard answers from raw data, with tolerance for assay variability.
• Curate data: neutralization titers, epitope maps, serology time courses, and viral sequences.
• Test AI agents for real escape vs. artifact and for separation of lab concepts.

Skills

Vaccine/antibody development

Antiviral development

Data interpretation

AI-ready judgment

Education

PhD in immunology, virology, microbiology, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience

Job description

LatchBio seeks an AI Biologist to lead ground-truth testing for pathogen countermeasures, shaping how AI agents reason about vaccines, antibodies, and antivirals against respiratory viruses.

You will build tasks from real workflows, curate datasets with neutralization titers and resistance markers, and set the standard outputs AI systems must meet. Remote-friendly with onsite SF options, equity opportunities accompany a strong science-driven culture.