Member of Technical Staff, Science

LatchBio
San Francisco, CA
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior or experienced science professionals who can design and lead technical benchmarks in biology and AI.

Best fit for

  • Senior scientists with domain expertise and AI tool experience who can lead and build teams
    — “You’ll build and manage your own scientific team through your network and internal talent infrastructure.”
  • Candidates with a background in drug discovery or technical project scaling
    — “Our Members of Technical Staff have built companies, run drug programs and scaled complex technical projects.”

Things to consider

  • Requires in-person presence in Mission Bay, San Francisco, five days a week
    — “Our MTS team works in person five days a week in Mission Bay, San Francisco.”
  • Potential for long hours due to tight deadlines and project commitments
    — “Tight deadlines and customer commitments sometimes require late hours.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in designing technical benchmarks and managing cross-functional teams
    — “You’ll turn your understanding of a biological domain into a roadmap of benchmarks and design them with engineers.”
  • Showcase ability to translate scientific understanding into practical AI applications
    — “We approach this by understanding and improving AI’s application to biology across basic research, drug discovery, and biosecurity.”
  • Demonstrate experience with AI tools in scientific research or development
    — “You have (1) deep scientific expertise and experience using AI tools or (2) rigorous coursework in math/CS with experience working with scientists.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • benchmarks and design
  • scientific team building
  • networking
  • internal talent infrastructure
Typical background
deep scientific expertiseAI tools experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Deep Scientific ExpertiseAI ToolsMath/cs CourseworkWorking With ScientistsNetworking And Talent Management

Preferred

Company BuildingDrug Program ManagementComplex Technical Project Scaling

Stack & domain

AIDrug DiscoveryBiosecurityBenchmarksLeadershipTeam ManagementCommunicationBiotechnologyArtificial Intelligence

About the role

Original posting from LatchBio via Ashby

Member of Technical Staff, Science

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 http://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.

Projects you might work on:

  • 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 methods for evaluating scientific capabilities and measuring improvements from training.
  • Work with our internal data generation and drug development teams to build tasks around real experiments and research decisions.

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.

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:

  • Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 system card https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/0339e6a7c5c7b87f5c07798616dc32c215d14235/Claude%20Fable%205.1%20%26%20Claude%20Mythos%205.1%20System%20Card.pdf
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 system card https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/fc1b44717c85dc068bc6ba5024219938094694bd/Claude%20Opus%205.5%20System%20Card.pdf
  • Anthropic: Advancing Claude in healthcare and life sciences https://www.anthropic.com/news/healthcare-life-sciences
  • xAI: Grok 4.7 model card https://media.x.ai/v1/website/card4p7-3a96f40b.pdf
  • xAI: Biosecurity at the frontier https://x.ai/news/biosafety-at-the-frontier

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

Source: LatchBio careers (Ashby)

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