Harmonize your Wet and Dry Lab. Backed by Lux.
About the role
You will design our technical approach to understand how agents could be misused for biological harm, and measure where current safety guardrails fall short. You will work with research engineers and biologists to build benchmarks that measure whether AI systems can meaningfully assist with:
What they're looking for
- PhD in virology or a closely related field, with doctoral or postdoctoral research centered on viruses
- Substantial hands-on wet-lab virology experience, including experimental design, execution, and troubleshooting
- Experience working in BSL-3 or high-containment BSL-2 laboratories
- Have used used or evaluated Large Language Models, biological foundation models, or AI-enabled biological design tools
- Proficiency in Python and/or R
More about this role
As molecular data generation and frontier model intelligence grows, new approaches to data analysis are needed across the biotech industry. Latch is building intelligent, high performance agents for biological data analysis, empowering over 5,000 scientists across 150+ R&D labs to handle data from instrument-to-insights.
We're seeking a Member of Technical Staff for Virology to lead our safety benchmarking efforts in the Biosecurity group, ensuring frontier artificial intelligence is deployed responsibly in biology.
You will design our technical approach to understand how agents could be misused for biological harm, and measure where current safety guardrails fall short.
You will work with research engineers and biologists to build benchmarks that measure whether AI systems can meaningfully assist with:
Designing and assessing virology experiments
Troubleshooting protocols and identifying where an AI-generated recommendation would fail in the wet lab
Interpreting viral genomes, proteins, mutations, and phenotypic data
Selecting, using, and evaluating bioinformatics and biological design tools
Planning iterative experimental workflows
Evaluating experimental feasibility across...
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