Member of Technical Staff, Science

LatchBio

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 350,000 - 500,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Health, dental and vision insurance

Visa sponsorship and relocation assist

401(k)

Office in Mission Bay, San Francisco

Lunch and dinner provided

Job summary

LatchBio in Mission Bay, San Francisco, is seeking a high-impact Member of Technical Staff, Science to translate biological questions into benchmarks and lead a growing scientific team.

You’ll design benchmarks with engineers and scientists, partner on large-scale computing and AI inference, and explore new evaluation methods to measure improvements from training, while coordinating with internal data generation and drug development teams.

Qualifications

Deep scientific expertise and ability to apply AI tools to biology.
Strong coursework in math and CS with experience collaborating with scientists.

Responsibilities

Design benchmarks with engineers and scientists, from questions and datasets to graders.
Work with engineers on large-scale computing and AI inference infrastructure.
Research new methods for evaluating scientific capabilities and improvements.
Collaborate with internal data generation and drug development teams on experiments.

Skills

Deep scientific expertise

Experience using AI tools

Math/CS coursework

Experience collaborating with sciences

Tools

AI tooling familiarity

Job description

Member of Technical Staff, Science

Our mission is to advance humanity's ability to engineer biology. We approach this by understanding and improving AI’s application to biology across basic research, drug discovery, and biosecurity. We are a team of engineers, scientists, and operations specialists who are driven by improving capabilities and interpretability. Some of our work is showcased on benchmarks.bio.

About this role.

You’ll turn your understanding of a biological domain into a roadmap of benchmarks and design them with engineers. You’ll then build and manage your own scientific team using your network and internal talent infrastructure.

You have

deep scientific expertise and experience using AI tools
strong coursework in math/CS and experience working with scientists

This is a high-intensity, founder-type role. Our Members of Technical Staff have built companies, run drug programs and scaled complex technical projects.

Projects you might work on:

Design benchmarks with engineers and scientists, from selecting scientific questions and datasets to developing reliable graders.
Work with engineers on large-scale computing and AI inference infrastructure to evaluate models and investigate their failures.
Research new methods for evaluating scientific capabilities and measuring improvements from training.
Work with our internal data generation and drug development teams to build tasks around real experiments and research decisions.

How we work.

Our MTS team works in person in Mission Bay, San Francisco. We keep meetings to a minimum and are flexible about when you arrive or leave. Tight deadlines and customer commitments sometimes require late hours.

Our work in use.