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About the Role
Design the technical approach to understand how agents could be misused for biological harm and measure where current safety guardrails fall short. Lead a team of research engineers and biologists building datasets to understand agent capabilities in dual-use areas.
Responsibilities
- Design technical approach to understand agent misuse for biological harm
- Measure where current safety guardrails fall short
- Lead a team of research engineers and biologists
- Build datasets to understand agent capabilities in dual-use areas
- Focus on protocol design, protocol troubleshooting, DBTL loops, genome/protein design, biological design tools, and understanding viruses, bacteria, or toxins
Requirements
- 5+ years hands-on experience with synthetic biology, virology, microbiology, or bioengineering
- Experience in cloning and genome editing
- Reverse genetics is a plus
- Comfortable coding
- Running bioinformatics analyses in area of expertise
- Using biological design tools
Skills
- Python
- R
- Synthetic biology
- Virology
- Microbiology
- Bioengineering
- Cloning
- Genome editing
- Reverse genetics
- Bioinformatics
- Biological design tools
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
- In-person
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $180k+ base
- Variable compensation
- Equity
- Stock options
Benefits
- 100% premium covered Blue Shield platinum health plan ($0 deductible / $0 out-of-pocket)
- Free meals (lunch and dinner)
About the Company
- 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.