AI Biologist - Rare and Progressive Disease

The role

You will contribute to the technical approach for evaluating how AI agents help diagnose, treat, conduct research and perform target discovery in rare and progressive disease. You will build ground-truth benchmark datasets to test if agents can perform critical analytical and interpretative steps.

What you will do

• Contribute to the technical approach for evaluating AI agents in rare and progressive disease
• Build ground-truth benchmark datasets drawn from studies, experience, and novel work
• Test whether agents can perform critical analytical and interpretative steps

Required qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS/MD/PhD/PharmD) in biology, genetics, physiology, computational biology, or a related biomedical field
• 3+ years of hands-on research experience in relevant domains, with impact demonstrated through publications or industry experience
• Proficiency in Python and/or R for biological data analysis and visualization or expert-level experience in experimental or methods design
• Deep scientific or clinical expertise in at least one relevant disease area, including but not limited to rare (genetic/autoimmune/infectious/idiopathic) diseases, neurodegeneration, and chronic progr
• Expertise in designing and troubleshooting relevant wet- or dry-lab experiments OR expertise in clinical diagnosis, treatment, and research

Nice to have

• Strong existing opinions on where agents and LLMs fail in science or clinical practice
• Experience using agentic coding systems

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision: 100% covered for you, 50% for dependents
• 401(k) (no match)
• PTO: 12 days to start, more as you’re promoted
• Catered lunch and dinner and unlimited snacks (onsite)
• Company outings most months, team off-sites, and a community

Before you apply

• We sponsor H-1B (new and transfers), O-1, and TN, and support STEM OPT
• If your profile matches, we’ll send you a take-home project
• Take-home project (HackerRank)
• Technical interview with a Member of Technical Staff (pod lead)
• Culture interview with our C-suite

About the company

Latch builds rigorous scientific benchmarks for AI agents across biology. They work with frontier labs and pharma to measure whether agents can handle real biological workflows.