Member of Technical Staff, Science

LatchBio

San Francisco, CA · $350k–$500k a year · Posted October 14, 2026

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About the job

Our mission is to advance humanity's ability to engineer biology. We approach this by understanding and improving AI’s application to biology across basic research, drug discovery, and biosecurity. We are a team of engineers, scientists, and operations specialists who are driven by improving capabilities and interpretability. Some of our work is showcased on benchmarks.bio .

About this role. You’ll turn your understanding of a biological domain into a roadmap of benchmarks and design them with engineers. You’ll then build and manage your own scientific team through your network and internal talent infrastructure.

You have (1) deep scientific expertise and experience using AI tools or (2) rigorous coursework in math/CS with experience working with scientists.

This is a high-intensity, founder-type role. Our Members of Technical Staff have built companies, run drug programs and scaled complex technical projects.

How we work. Our MTS team works in person five days a week in Mission Bay, San Francisco. We keep meetings to a minimum and are flexible about when you arrive or leave. Tight deadlines and customer commitments sometimes require late hours.

Our work in use. Frontier AI labs use our benchmarks to assess biological capabilities and safeguards. Our work appears in research announcements and model cards, including:

Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 system card

Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 system card

Anthropic: Advancing Claude in healthcare and life sciences

xAI: Grok 4.7 model card

xAI: Biosecurity at the frontier

Hiring Process.

Our process is typically completed within two weeks.

Round 1: Introduction

Round 2: Technical project matching

Round 3: Take-home evaluation project (~2 hours)

Round 4: Technical interview / live engineering session (1 hour)

Round 5: Paid onsite project and presentation (2–3 days)

Offer

Compensation & Benefits

350K-500K+ OTE

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Health, dental and vision insurance fully covered

Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance

401(k)

Office in Mission Bay, San Francisco

Lunch and dinner provided