LatchBioMember of Technical Staff, Science
LatchBio is hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Science in San Francisco, United States. It pays $350k-$500k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
AI in this role
Design biological benchmarks and lead scientific teams to evaluate AI capabilities in biology, drug discovery, and biosecurity.
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 through your network and internal talent infrastructure.
You have (1) deep scientific expertise and experience using AI tools or (2) rigorous coursework in math/CS with 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.
How we work. Our MTS team works in person five days a week 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.
Our work in use. Frontier AI labs use our benchmarks to assess biological capabilities and safeguards. Our work appears in research announcements and model cards, including:
Hiring Process.
Our process is typically completed within two weeks.
Round 1: Introduction
Round 2: Technical project matching
Round 3: Take-home evaluation project (~2 hours)
Round 4: Technical interview / live engineering session (1 hour)
Round 5: Paid onsite project and presentation (2–3 days)
Offer
Compensation & Benefits
350K-500K+ OTE
Equity
Unlimited PTO
Health, dental and vision insurance fully covered
Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance
401(k)
Office in Mission Bay, San Francisco
Lunch and dinner provided
How we rate this
Member of Technical Staff, Science at LatchBio rates 90 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where biology was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where ai benchmarks was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where drug discovery was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where biosecurity was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where research was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Biology, AI Benchmarks, Drug Discovery, Biosecurity, and Research. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.
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