# AI Biologist - Metagenomics at Latch Bio

- Company: Latch Bio
- What the company does: Harmonize your Wet and Dry Lab. Backed by Lux.
- Company website: https://latch.bio
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco or Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $120K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/LatchBio/1714598f-f274-4457-be04-861ba7cde7e4
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/latch-bio-ai-biologist-metagenomics/

## About the role

You will contribute to our technical approach for evaluating how AI agents reason through complex microbiome and metagenomics datasets. Working with software engineers and computational biologists, you'll build ground-truth benchmark datasets: drawn from real published microbiome studies, that rigorously test whether agents can perform the critical analytical and interpretive steps that expert microbiome researchers execute.

## What they're looking for

- Master's or PhD in microbiology, microbial ecology, bioinformatics, biology, or related field
- 3+ years of hands-on research experience with microbiome or metagenomics data, demonstrated through publications or industry work

Tags: Research