LatchBio · 2 months ago
AI Engineer
Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$150K/yr - $300K/yrLatchbio is revolutionizing biology through advanced data infrastructure and AI/ML techniques, supporting over 10,000 scientists and top pharmaceutical companies. The AI Engineer role involves developing AI tools for biologists, focusing on high-quality code, product intuition, and understanding of biological data processing.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)BioinformaticsBiopharmaBiotechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Understanding of biology: details of new measurement tech (spatial, single cell) and intuition for appropriate scientific results
Engineering ability: high quality code, ‘doing things well’
Product intuition: distill user data into sensible requirements; good intuition for scientist usability
LLM engineering: understanding of where the 'levers' are with these systems to improve performance; well read on latest practical techniques
Interact with distributed file-system with metadata on Postgres and blobs on S3, includes a web UI, and a FUSE driver
Work with workflow orchestrator based on Kubernetes
Manage interactive on-demand compute instances based on Kubernetes containers
Utilize statically-typed tabular data storage engine
Develop reactive Python-based web application framework for data analysis and visualization
Strong foundation in statistics, linear algebra, and algorithmic reasoning, with an understanding of the methods underlying bioinformatics tools and LLMs
Understanding of mechanics of wet lab biology, either from direct experience or interfacing with scientists on real projects for some time
Reasonable software engineering ability - exposure across the stack, experience with databases, understanding where and why performance breaks down under load of data
Qualification
Required
Understanding of biology: details of new measurement tech (spatial, single cell) and intuition for appropriate scientific results
Engineering ability: high quality code, ‘doing things well'
Product intuition: distill user data into sensible requirements; good intuition for scientist usability
LLM engineering: understanding of where the 'levers' are with these systems to improve performance; well read on latest practical techniques
Strong foundation in statistics, linear algebra, and algorithmic reasoning, with an understanding of the methods underlying bioinformatics tools and LLMs
Understanding of mechanics of wet lab biology, either from direct experience or interfacing with scientists on real projects for some time
Reasonable software engineering ability - exposure across the stack, experience with databases, understanding where and why performance breaks down under load of data
Benefits
Good salaries and high equity offers
Best benefits we can find
A very nice office
All meals provided
Extremely flexible time off
Snacks, toys, office dog
Company
LatchBio
LatchBio is a biotech research company that provides code-free platform for the biocomputing revolution.
Founded in 2021
11-50 employees
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2025 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$33.2MKey Investors
Lux CapitalBackend Capital
2022-06-02Series A· $28M
2021-10-01Seed· $5M
2021-06-28Pre Seed
Leadership Team
Alfredo Andere
Co-Founder and CEO
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