LatchBio
Bioinformatics Engineer - Function
San Francisco or Remote · Full-time
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About the role
- Your hands-on expertise in functional biology assays and computational modeling will define how we measure agent capability in understanding and reasoning about biological sequences and structures.
- You will contribute to our technical approach for evaluating how
- AI agents reason through biological function:
Requirements
- Hands-on experience in biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering, synthetic biology, virology, microbiology, immunology, or a closely related field
- Comfort with quantitative modeling applied to noisy experimental data
- Proficiency in Python and/or R for data analysis & visualization
- Familiarity with at least one of:
- Candidates with all of the above qualifications + proven management skills will be eligible for more senior positions
Nice to have
- Experience designing or troubleshooting functional assays (ELISA, cell-based, biochemical)
- Exposure to regulatory or safety considerations in bioengineering
- We care most about hard work and output.
- We're respectfully opinionated, it will always be us against problems, not each other.
- Waterfront office near Oracle Park, 2x free daily meals, unlimited snacks, company outings most months, and team offsites.
- Plus a vibrant community: cycling, soccer, figure skating, boxing, run clubs, reading clubs, martial arts, music, game nights.
- Compensation & Logistics
- 1099 (or W8-BEN) contract, 40 hrs/week, no end date
Compensation
- Compensation & Logistics
Benefits
- recovering and interpreting experimental evidence to make informed decisions about binding, stability, immune escape, viral fitness, toxin potency, and protein design.
Visa & Work Authorization
- OPT visa holders only (not STEM Extension)
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