Infrastructure Software Engineer (AI Enablement)

LatchBio • San Francisco, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Latch is working to advance humanity’s ability to engineer biology by improving AI’s application to biology use cases, including therapeutics and biosecurity. The company’s team includes engineers, scientists, and operations specialists focused on improving capabilities and interpretability.

The Infrastructure Software Engineer will work on agent infrastructure and orchestration, ML infrastructure, large-scale model benchmarking, full-stack web development, developer and user experience, and process optimization. Infrastructure challenges include container orchestration, sandboxing, distributed filesystems, cloud architecture, and database systems. The role’s particular area of ownership is developer experience and operations, expected to account for less than 50% of engineering time initially. The engineer should be a strong generalist who improves the productivity of others through tools and systems, especially tools that use LLM tokens to save human time.

The role is based in the San Francisco office and involves close collaboration with science, partnerships, operations, and engineering. The team has two key meetings each week and additional meetings as needed. The schedule is flexible, and the company does not track when employees are online. Projects are expected to ship well and on time or early. The culture emphasizes transparency, respectful problem-solving, minimal meetings, and judging work by innovation and output rather than hours.

Requirements

• At least 3 years writing production code in Python, Go, or TypeScript.
• Use AI coding agents every day and have built tooling, workflows, or integrations that make them more effective for a whole team.
• Strong general software engineering skills and ability to become productive quickly in an unfamiliar codebase.
• Experience building internal tools or developer-experience improvements that other engineers adopted.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, AWS or GCP, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Ability to teach and encourage adoption through demos, documentation, and pairing rather than mandates.

Responsibilities

• Work on agent infrastructure and orchestration, ML infrastructure, model benchmarking at scale, full-stack web development, developer and user experience, and process optimization.
• Own developer experience and operations, initially spending less than 50% of engineering time in this area.
• Build tools and systems that improve the productivity of other engineers, including tools that trade LLM tokens for saved human time.
• Own the CI/CD pipeline and related infrastructure.
• Help engineers adopt improved ways of working through demos, documentation, and pairing.

Benefits

• Performance bonus
• Equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Lunch and dinner fully paid
• 100% premium coverage for the employee’s Cigna platinum health plan, with $0 premium and $0 deductible
• 50% premium coverage for dependents on the health plan
• 100% coverage for top-tier Guardian dental and vision plans
• Work visa sponsorship
• Relocation assistance
• 401(k) plan
• Company-sponsored professional development
• Company outings and team off-sites

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed