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Member of Technical Staff, Science

Latch Bio · San Francisco, USA · On-site

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About Latch Bio

Harmonize your Wet and Dry Lab. Backed by Lux.

About the role

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. 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

More about this role

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

(1) deep scientific expertise and experience using AI tools

(2) or 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.

  • 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...

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