Latentlabs

Head of Lab Platform

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 112 days ago

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About the role

We are seeking a Head of Lab Platform to join our team working at the interface of generative AI and synthetic biology.
You will oversee a team of scientists, set the strategic vision for our lab platform, and work in close collaboration with machine learning teams.

Responsibilities

Lead and operate the lab platform [~50% of your time]:
Mentor and develop team members, enabling their professional growth and fostering their technical expertise.
Manage and develop CRO partnerships, identifying when to leverage external capacity and ensuring data quality and turnaround times meet our internal standards.
You thrive at the interface of wet lab and data, understanding how experimental design choices shape what can and cannot be learned from the data collected.
You lead teams of scientists.
You love to connect people and enable them to perform at their highest levels.
You are passionate about making a positive impact on the world, whether it's for patients, partners or beyond.
You have gone from zero to operational - selecting instruments, establishing workflows, hiring scientists, and building the culture and systems that let a lab scale.
You have opinions about what biology to do and why - whether in drug design, target selection, or experimental strategy.

Requirements

You are a lab automation expert.
You have deep experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting automated workflows, liquid handling systems, and efficiently integrating with LIMS infrastructure.
You think creatively about how to connect wet lab operations with agentic AI workflows, and you have concrete ideas for how to push our platform towards full lab autonomy.
You are a strong biomolecular and biochemistry scientist.
You have generalisable expertise across a range of assay types and biological modalities.
You are deeply familiar with workflows involving DNA synthesis, assembly, cloning, transformation, and quantitative read-outs (e.g. flow cytometry, NGS, binding affinity assays).
You can scale these workflows into the high throughput regime and have hands-on experience with both arrayed and pooled formats.
You are a successful scientist.
You have a Ph.D. or equivalent experience in biology, synthetic biology, computational biology, or a related field.
You have a proven track record of leading successful commercial and / or academic research projects, demonstrated through publications and contributions to the scientific community, e.g. in Nature, Science, Cell or PNAS.

Skills

A strong blend of software, hardware, and biomolecular skills is essential.

Compensation

We offer strongly competitive compensation and benefits packages, a stimulating work environment, and the opportunity to shape the future of synthetic biology through the application of breakthrough generative models.

Benefits

You are motivated by the end goal and are flexible in adapting to different approaches and methodologies.
You are excited about what a fully autonomous lab could look like and have the vision and pragmatism to build towards it.
You bring biological vision, not just operational capability.
Foster a collaborative and innovative environment, promoting a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
Lab automation vision and strategy [~30% of your time]:
Develop and execute plans to connect laboratory workflows with agentic AI systems, enabling closed-loop experimental design, execution, and learning.
Ensure seamless data integration and interoperability between different components of the platform and the interface with machine learning.

Company info

At Latent Labs, we are building frontier models that learn the fundamentals of biology. We pursue ambitious goals with curiosity and are committed to scientific excellence. Before building Latent Labs, our team co-developed DeepMind's Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold, invented latent diffusion, and built pioneering lab data management systems as well as high throughput protein screening platforms. At Latent Labs you will be working with some of the brightest minds in generative AI and biology.
Our team is committed to interdisciplinary exchange, continuous learning and collaboration. We're looking for innovators passionate about tackling complex challenges and maximizing positive global impact.
Who you are
You are a lab automation expert. You bring a rare blend of hardware and software lab skills. You have deep experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting automated workflows, liquid handling systems, and efficiently integrating with LIMS infrastructure. You think creatively about how to connect wet lab operations with agentic AI workflows, and you have concrete ideas for how to push our platform towards full lab autonomy.
At Latent Labs, we are building frontier models that learn the fundamentals of biology.
We pursue ambitious goals with curiosity and are committed to scientific excellence.
Before building Latent Labs, our team co-developed DeepMind's Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold, invented latent diffusion, and built pioneering lab data management systems as well as high throughput protein screening platforms.
At Latent Labs you will be working with some of the brightest minds in generative AI and biology.
Our team is committed to interdisciplinary exchange, continuous learning and collaboration.
We're looking for innovators passionate about tackling complex challenges and maximizing positive global impact.
You will lead and evolve our experimental capabilities, connecting high throughput assay work with our AI workflows and driving us towards a fully autonomous lab.

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