AI Biologist - Rare and Progressive Disease

LatchBio • San Francisco, CA

2d • Remote

About The Position

Latch builds rigorous scientific benchmarks for AI agents across biology, working with frontier labs and pharmaceutical companies to assess how well agents handle real biological workflows. This role focuses on rare and progressive diseases and does not include cancer, which is covered by a separate role. As an early team member, you will help define strategy across multiple benchmarks.

You will contribute to the technical approach for evaluating how AI agents can support diagnosis, treatment, research, and target discovery in rare and progressive disease. In collaboration with scientists, physician-scientists, software engineers, and computational biologists, you will build ground-truth benchmark datasets from studies, your experience, and novel work. These benchmarks will rigorously test whether agents can carry out the critical analytical and interpretive steps performed by expert scientists.

Requirements

• Advanced degree (MS, MD, PhD, or PharmD) in biology, genetics, physiology, computational biology, or a related biomedical field.
• At least 3 years of hands-on research experience in relevant domains, with impact demonstrated through publications or industry experience.
• Proficiency in Python and/or R for biological data analysis and visualization, or expert-level experience in experimental or methods design.
• Deep scientific or clinical expertise in at least one relevant disease area, such as rare genetic, autoimmune, infectious, or idiopathic diseases; neurodegeneration; or chronic progressive conditions such as COPD or MASH.
• Expertise in designing and troubleshooting relevant wet- or dry-lab experiments, or expertise in clinical diagnosis, treatment, and research.

Nice To Haves

• Strong existing opinions on where agents and LLMs fail in science or clinical practice.
• Experience using agentic coding systems.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to technical approaches for evaluating AI agents in diagnosis, treatment, research, and target discovery for rare and progressive diseases.
• Build ground-truth benchmark datasets using studies, professional experience, and novel work.
• Design benchmarks that rigorously test the analytical and interpretive steps expert scientists perform.
• Collaborate with scientists, physician-scientists, software engineers, and computational biologists.
• Help define Latch’s strategy across multiple benchmarks.

Benefits

• In the US, health, dental, and vision coverage is 100% covered for the employee and 50% covered for dependents.
• 401(k) plan with no match.
• 12 days of PTO to start, with more as employees are promoted.
• First four weeks of ramp are paid at full OTE.
• Full OTE is paid when quota cannot fairly apply, such as during a new project, platform downtime, or a special project.
• Company outings most months and team off-sites.
• Catered lunch and dinner and unlimited snacks at the San Francisco office.
• H-1B (new and transfers), O-1, and TN sponsorship, and STEM OPT support.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level