LatchBio

LatchBio

Member of Technical Staff, Biosecurity

San Francisco · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
PythonData AnalysisLogisticsBioinformaticsResearch

About the role

  • Understanding and working with viruses, bacteria, or toxins etc

Responsibilities

  • We're seeking a Member of Technical Staff for Biosecurity to lead our safety benchmarking efforts, ensuring frontier artificial intelligence is deployed responsibly in biology.
  • You will design our technical approach to understand how agents could be misused for biological harm, and measure where current safety guardrails fall short.

Requirements

  • 5+ years hands-on experience with synthetic biology, virology, microbiology, or bioengineering
  • Must be comfortable coding, running bioinformatics analyses in your area of expertise, and using biological design tools
  • Proficiency in Python and/or R

Nice to have

  • Experience in cloning and genome editing with reverse genetics being a plus

Compensation

  • Compensation & Logistics

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