Surveillance Bioinformatics Engineer - AI Evaluation

LatchBio; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary: $120k-$180k

Unlimited PTO

Equity

Visa Sponsorship

Job summary

LatchBio is seeking a scientist to enhance AI models for pathogen surveillance. The role involves designing evaluation tasks based on real-world workflows in epidemiological science. You'll translate your expertise into structured evaluations to test AI agents effectively.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with computational workflows, can identify threats accurately, and is capable of crafting clear success criteria for detection tasks.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with wastewater, air, or clinical metagenomic pipelines.
• Ability to distinguish real threats from false positives.
• Skilled in translating domain knowledge into structured tasks.

Responsibilities

• Review surveillance workflows to define good threat detection.
• Source examples from epidemiology literature.
• Convert findings into structured evaluation tasks.

Skills

Computational surveillance experience

Threat detection judgment

Task construction

Sample type literacy

Pace

Job description

LatchBio is seeking a scientist to enhance AI models for pathogen surveillance. The role involves designing evaluation tasks based on real-world workflows in epidemiological science. You'll translate your expertise into structured evaluations to test AI agents effectively.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with computational workflows, can identify threats accurately, and is capable of crafting clear success criteria for detection tasks.