AI Research Engineer: Lab Knowledge & Automation

The J David Gladstone Institutes; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 78,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Excellent benefits

Job summary

Gladstone Institutes seeks an AI Research Engineer to build AI-native systems for a translational science lab in San Francisco. You will design a lab knowledge repository, enable agentic AI workflows, and prototype tools that accelerate discovery in biology.

The role collaborates with experimental scientists to deploy AI solutions, evaluate new techniques, and stay aligned with cutting-edge computational biology research. Strong Python and cloud experience preferred.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Bioengineering, or related quantitative field.
• 0-2 years of research or industry experience; exceptional undergraduates considered.
• Strong Python programming skills and experience with AI-assisted coding tools.
• Familiarity with agentic AI fundamentals, tool calls, vector databases, and related tech.
• Experience building projects with LLMs and agentic AI frameworks (Langchain, OpenAI/Claude).

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems ingesting literature, datasets, notebooks, Slack discussions, transcripts, protocols, etc. into a lab knowledge repository.
• Develop agentic AI systems that reason across the repository and use external tools for multi-step workflows.
• Create always-on AI agents that review papers and notes, propose hypotheses and experiments, and help interpretation.
• Collaborate with experimental scientists to prototype and deploy AI tools.
• Evaluate new AI tools and incorporate state-of-the-art methods into the lab.

Skills

Python programming

AI fundamentals

Agentic AI

Cloud platforms

Docker

Git

Communication skills

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science / AI / ML / Computational Biology / Bioengineering

Tools

Langchain/Langgraph

OpenAI/Claude SDK

Embeddings & vector DBs

APIs integration

Job description

Gladstone Institutes seeks an AI Research Engineer to build AI-native systems for a translational science lab in San Francisco. You will design a lab knowledge repository, enable agentic AI workflows, and prototype tools that accelerate discovery in biology.

The role collaborates with experimental scientists to deploy AI solutions, evaluate new techniques, and stay aligned with cutting-edge computational biology research. Strong Python and cloud experience preferred.