# Member of Technical Staff, AI Engineering for Biosecurity at Radical Numerics

- Company: Radical Numerics
- What the company does: Radical Numerics is building biological AI to understand, predict, and design biology while strengthening defenses against biological threats. Backed by Emergence Capital.
- Company website: https://radicalnumerics.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-23
- Apply by: 2026-12-07
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/radical-numerics/147e27ed-8d21-44c5-afb0-81becea981a0?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
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## About the role

We are seeking research scientists and engineers in machine learning and artificial intelligence, with experience applying AI to biological problems or an interest in doing so. You will help lead the design, evaluation, and deployment of our multimodal genome language models, with a particular focus on our biosecurity and biodefense efforts. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Strong technical background in deep learning for large-scale classification, retrieval, or generative models
- Ability to design evaluation tasks and benchmarks that measure model capability beyond simple accuracy metrics, with a critical eye toward aligning computational outputs with actionable downstream applications
- Strong Python and ML tooling experience (PyTorch or JAX, experiment management, distributed training)
- Experience applying ML models to biological data and challenging prediction tasks
- Familiarity with molecular biology and biological data modalities, particularly genomics, gene regulation, protein biology, or cellular systems, or an interest in applying your AI/ML skills in this space
- Ability to reason concretely about what biological AI systems can and cannot do, how those capabilities translate into real-world risks, and how to measure and mitigate those risks

Tags: Technical Staff

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