Software Engineer

LatchBio • San Francisco, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

LatchBio builds the benchmarks that test whether frontier AI can actually do computational biology. Pharma, biotech, and solution providers rely on benchmarks.bio to evaluate and improve their AI systems. The company has experienced significant growth, with revenue increasing 6x in the past 12 months, and has established partnerships with major companies. They are scaling rapidly in engineering to build infrastructure for their benchmarking pipeline, including data ingestion, eval design, grading systems, and infrastructure. Engineers will work with scientists and frontier models, shipping code quickly. Engineering products include an agent harness integrated with bio-first tooling, a distributed file-system, a cluster orchestrator, reactive Python-based notebooks, and a benchmarking harness with automated QC processes.

This role involves working on problems such as agent infrastructure and systems, model benchmarking at scale, full-stack web development, developer and user experience, and process optimization. The engineer will be part of a small team with control over their direction and problem-solving. Responsibilities may include scaling and improving the internal benchmarking platform, planning and delivering features, and supporting customer requirements and computational tasks. There may also be opportunities to engage in research for agentic biology.

Requirements

• Interest in computer systems and their inner workings (e.g., compilers, operating systems, databases, distributed systems, programming language theory).
• Designed and shipped products that people love.
• Ability to apply process or systems engineering approach to tooling and data systems.

Responsibilities

• Work on problems in software including agent infrastructure and systems, model benchmarking at scale, full stack web development, developer and user experience, and process optimization.
• Scale and improve a large scale internal benchmarking platform.
• Plan and deliver features to improve quality and speed.
• Support ever evolving customer requirements and difficult computational tasks.
• Potentially dip into research for agentic biology.

Benefits

• Equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Waterfront office in China Basin, San Francisco
• Free lunch and dinner
• 100% premium covered on Blue Shield's platinum health plan ($0 premium, $0 deductible)
• 401(k) plan options
• Work visa sponsorship
• Company-sponsored professional development

What This Job Offers

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