AI Biologist - Rare and Progressive Disease

Latch builds rigorous scientific benchmarks for AI agents across biology, working with frontier labs and pharma to measure whether agents can handle real biological workflows. The role focuses on rare and/or progressive diseases (excluding cancer), and involves building ground-truth benchmark datasets and defining strategy across multiple benchmarks in an early team.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the technical approach for evaluating how AI agents can help diagnose, treat, conduct research and perform target discovery in rare and progressive disease; Build ground-truth benchmark datasets drawn from studies, experience, and novel work; Rigorously test whether agents can perform the critical analytical and interpretative steps that expert scientists do; Define strategy across multiple benchmarks

Requirements

Advanced degree (MS/MD/PhD/PharmD) in biology, genetics, physiology, computational biology, or a related biomedical field; 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, including but not limited to rare (genetic/autoimmune/infectious/idiopathic) diseases, neurodegeneration, and 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 have

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

Benefits

Company outings most months; Team off-sites; Catered lunch and dinner and unlimited snacks at the Mission Bay office; Health, dental, vision: 100% covered for employee, 50% for dependents (US); 401(k) with no match (US); PTO: 12 days to start, more as promoted (US); Individual contributor promotion path with OTE rising at each level; Work authorization sponsorship for H-1B, O-1, TN, and support for STEM OPT