AI Microscopist & Ground-Truth Scientist (Remote)

LatchBio; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

catered lunch and dinner daily

waterfront office in Mission Bay

monthly parking when available

Job summary

LatchBio is seeking an AI Neuroscientist to join our Microscopy team, serving as the scientific authority on ground truth for imaging benchmarks. You will shape how agents reason about microscopy data, distinguish real biology from artifacts, and define gold-standard answers with expert rationale.

You will design realistic imaging tasks across sample prep, staining, acquisition, preprocessing, segmentation, and quantification, curate diverse datasets, and build Python-based analysis pipelines.

Qualifications

• PhD in cell biology, bioimage analysis, pathology, or related field; or MD with pathology training.
• Senior, hands-on imaging experience with thousands of samples.
• Experience with image segmentation tools such as CellProfiler, Cellpose, StarDist, QuPath, ilastik, napari, or Fiji.

Responsibilities

• Define what expert reasoning looks like for an imaging question and write gold-standard answers with the rationale an experienced microscopist or pathologist would defend.
• Design realistic scenarios across the imaging workflow: sample prep, staining, acquisition, preprocessing, segmentation, quantification, and interpretation
• Curate image datasets across modalities: immunofluorescence, confocal and live-cell, electron microscopy, histology and histopathology, and high-content screening
• Build analysis pipelines in Python, including deep-learning segmentation, that produce verifiable ground truth
• Partner with software engineers to turn your judgment into new workflows

Skills

Advanced imaging analysis

Experimental design

Statistics

Scientific communication

Decision making under uncertainty

Leadership

Education

PhD in cell biology / bioimage analysis / pathology

MD with pathology training

Tools

CellProfiler

Cellpose

StarDist

QuPath

napari

Fiji

Python

Job description

LatchBio is seeking an AI Neuroscientist to join our Microscopy team, serving as the scientific authority on ground truth for imaging benchmarks. You will shape how agents reason about microscopy data, distinguish real biology from artifacts, and define gold-standard answers with expert rationale.

You will design realistic imaging tasks across sample prep, staining, acquisition, preprocessing, segmentation, and quantification, curate diverse datasets, and build Python-based analysis pipelines.