# Member of Technical Staff, Virology at LatchBio

- Company: LatchBio
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Francisco, USA
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-07-29
- Skills: AI
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/latchbio/c7dcb5f9-0c74-4d06-bb49-4f1d41a4cc09

## Description

Member of Technical Staff - Virology

Latch builds rigorous scientific benchmarks (benchmarks.bio http://benchmarks.bio) that measure how well AI agents perform real biology. Frontier AI labs and pharma use them to answer one question: can an agent handle the messy, multi-layer reasoning that real biological work demands?

Every benchmark is grounded in real experimental and clinical work, including designing experiments, interpreting data, reading clinical endpoints, and advancing compounds. Each is built by scientists who've done that work themselves.

We're roughly 100 people in San Francisco, backed by Lux Capital, Coatue, Fifty Years, Haystack, Jeff Dean, Alec Nielsen, and George Church.

We're seeking a Member of Technical Staff for Virology to lead our Virology benchmark and define how the field measures AI in Virology.




About the Role

You will design our technical approach to understand how agents could be misused for biological harm, and measure where current safety guardrails fall short.

You will work with research engineers and biologists to build benchmarks that measure whether AI systems can meaningfully assist with:

 - Designing and assessing virology experiments

 - Troubleshooting protocols and identifying where an AI-generated recommendation would fail in the wet lab

 - Interpreting viral genomes, proteins, mutations, and phenotypic data

 - Selecting, using, and evaluating bioinformatics and biological design tools

 - Planning iterative experimental workflows

 - Evaluating experimental feasibility across conditions

 - Identifying when AI systems 

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