Collinear AI
MTS - Research (Biosafety Simulations)
Sunnyvale, California
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About the role
- You will turn the everyday judgment of a biosafety professional into tasks, reference solutions, and graders that measure whether a model reasons about biological risk the way a trained expert would.
- Because biology is dual-use, you will also help define the boundary: where a model should answer fully, where it should hedge, and where it should decline.
- We will teach you our tooling and workflow.
Responsibilities
- Risk assessments, biosafety-level assignment and containment decisions, IBC protocol review, exposure and spill response, decontamination and waste streams, shipping of infectious substances, ecotoxicology study design, and environmental release assessments.
- Build rubrics and verifiers. Define what a complete, correct, and safe answer looks like, and what an unsafe or insufficient one looks like. Calibrate your rubrics against other experts so grading is consistent.
- Red-team the boundary. Design adversarial and multi-turn prompts that probe where helpful biology becomes operational uplift. Document failure modes clearly enough that engineers can act on them.
Requirements
- No prior AI experience is required.
- Hands-on laboratory experience with biological agents at BSL2 or above.
- You have written or reviewed a risk assessment, an SOP, or an IBC submission.
- You can tell benign research from a credible attempt at harm, and you can explain the difference in writing.
- You are comfortable working to a rubric and giving structured, actionable feedback.
- A master's degree with four or more years of applied biosafety experience also qualifies.
Nice to have
- Experience as a biosafety officer, IBC member, or EHS professional.
- CBSP or RBP certification.
- Ecotoxicology or environmental risk assessment practice, including regulatory submissions.
- Prior work training, evaluating, or red-teaming AI systems.
- Python or basic scripting for working with data and evaluation pipelines.
Benefits
- A PhD in biology, microbiology, virology, immunology, biochemistry, toxicology, ecotoxicology, environmental health, public health, or a closely related field.
Company info
- What we cannot teach is the field expertise and the judgment, and that is what we are hiring for.
- Who we are looking for - A PhD in biology, microbiology, virology, immunology, biochemistry, toxicology, ecotoxicology, environmental health, public health, or a closely related field.
- Who we are looking for
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