Member of Technical Staff, Science

The role

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

What you will do

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

Required qualifications

• Deep scientific expertise and experience using AI tools, or
• Strong coursework in math/CS and experience working with scientists

Nice to have

• Built companies
• Run drug programs
• Scaled complex technical projects

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Health, dental and vision insurance fully covered
• Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance
• 401(k)
• Lunch and dinner provided
• Onsite Gym membership

Before you apply

• Round 1: Introduction
• Round 2: Technical project matching
• Round 3: Take-home evaluation project (~2 hours)
• Round 4: Technical interview / live engineering session (1 hour)
• Round 5: Paid onsite project and presentation (2–3 days)

About the company

latchbio aims to advance humanity's ability to engineer biology by improving AI's application to biology across basic research, drug discovery, and biosecurity.