AI Biologist – Metagenomics

🕒 August 14

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $120k - $180k / year

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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LatchBio

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🧬 Biotechnology

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

💰 $28M Series A - LatchBio on 2022-06

Biotechnology • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

LatchBio is a biotech-focused software and AI company that builds a modular, enterprise-grade platform to analyze and operationalize complex biological data and deploy frontier AI agents into real scientific workflows. It produces reproducible, Nextflow-based workflows, scalable compute “pods,” file and metadata registries, and white‑labeled analysis portals for solution providers and biopharma/R&D labs. In parallel, LatchBio develops and publishes verifiable benchmarks that evaluate how modern AI agents perform on real-world biological tasks (single‑cell, spatial, epigenomics, preclinical pharmacology, and pathogen genomic surveillance), and has expanded into biosecurity work through the acquisition of TwentyTwo and the formation of Latch Biosecurity. The company’s customers include instrument vendors, biopharma, and academic research organizations.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the technical approach for evaluating how AI agents reason through complex microbiome and metagenomics datasets • Work with software engineers and computational biologists • Build ground-truth benchmark datasets drawn from real published microbiome studies • Rigorously test whether AI agents perform critical analytical and interpretive steps used by expert microbiome researchers • Identify confounders, technical artifacts, and limitations of underlying experiments • Help define how agent capability is measured in computational microbiology • Participate in the interview process including a take-home HackerRank project and technical and culture interviews

🎯 Requirements

• Master's or PhD in microbiology, microbial ecology, bioinformatics, biology, or related field • 3+ years of hands-on research experience with microbiome or metagenomics data, demonstrated through publications or industry work • Deep expertise in at least one: human microbiome and disease; longitudinal microbiome or microbiome interventions; microbial function and metabolism; plant, soil, or environmental microbial ecology • Experience interpreting microbiome data in biological context • Ability to identify confounders, technical artifacts, and limitations of underlying experiments • Proficiency in Python and/or R for biological data analysis and visualization • Familiarity with 16S and/or shotgun metagenomics, including taxonomic, functional, and community-level analysis • Hands-on experience designing or troubleshooting microbiome experiments, including sampling, extraction, controls, or library preparation • Experience integrating metagenomics with metabolomics, metatranscriptomics, host omics, or clinical phenotypes • Experience with strain-level analysis, metagenomic assembly, MAGs, or long-read sequencing • Work authorization limited to OPT visa holders; STEM Extension holders are not accepted

🏖️ Benefits

• 2-4 week paid ramp • Full OTE from day one • Uncapped upside • Genuinely flexible schedules • 2x free daily meals • Unlimited snacks • Company outings most months • Team offsites • Community activities including cycling, soccer, figure skating, boxing, run clubs, reading clubs, martial arts, music, and game nights • Onsite monthly parking based on availability

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