Senior Biology Specialist

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $100k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

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TaskUs

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2008

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

💰 Private Equity Round on 2018-08

Healthcare • Logistics • Marketing

TaskUs is a business process outsourcing company that provides digital transformation and technology services to various industries. They offer services including digital customer experience, trust and safety, learning as a service, sales outsourcing, and consulting. TaskUs also specializes in compliance and managing financial crimes, as well as offering AI and data services through their GenAI platform. The company is globally recognized for its high-performance teams, cutting-edge technology, and comprehensive solutions that support industries like entertainment and gaming, financial services, healthcare, social media, retail, and eCommerce.

📋 Description

• Review and adjudicate nuanced, high-severity cases escalated from automated detection queues and Junior Specialists across priority biosecurity risk vectors • Evaluate sourcing and acquisition pathways for Tier 1 select agents, toxins, and high-consequence pathogens • Assess genetic modification aimed at enhancing transmissibility, lethality, or immune evasion • Review production protocols involving scaled culturing, fermentation, purification, and downstream processing • Evaluate formulation, aerosolization, stabilization, and delivery/dispersion mechanics • Distinguish legitimate academic, medical, or diagnostic research from actionable, weaponized biological pathways • Perform quality assurance on Junior Specialists’ casework and provide constructive technical feedback • Help lead regular calibration sessions to ensure consistency across the pod • Evaluate customer appeals and document evidence-backed rationales for warnings, suspensions, and bans • Recommend policy determinations • Generate precise case annotations for gold-standard benchmark datasets used to measure and fine-tune automated safety filters • Synthesize technical findings into risk assessments for the Principal Biology Specialist and client safety leads • Escalate novel threat patterns or ambiguous boundary cases promptly

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced Degree (Master’s or Ph.D.) in Microbiology, Virology, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Synthetic Biology, Biosecurity, or a directly related discipline • 5+ years of professional experience in biodefense, biosecurity policy, biosafety oversight (IBC/BSO), public health threat surveillance, or BSL-3 laboratory operations • Deep technical familiarity with high-consequence human, animal, and plant pathogens, toxin production pathways, and the Federal Select Agent Program guidelines • Proven ability to discern benign educational or defensive life-science questions from illicit protocol formulation with partial or fragmented user input • Demonstrated capability to peer-review scientific analysis, maintain operational labeling consistency, and mentor junior colleagues • Strong technical writing skills and ability to summarize complex microbiological mechanisms into concise, actionable risk memos • Based in the United States with unrestricted work authorization • Texas residency preferred • Prior work with DoD/DTRA, HHS/ASPR/BARDA, CDC, state public health labs, or national biodefense laboratories is a plus • Experience with DNA synthesis screening protocols, gene editing compliance, or biosecurity red-teaming is a plus • Working knowledge of AI safety, prompt evaluation, or computational biology tools is a plus • Active or recent U.S. Government Security Clearance is valued, not required • Selected candidates may be subject to client-directed insider-threat screening, background checks, and academic credential verification

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive industry salaries • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) with company match • Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and holidays • Internal mobility and professional growth opportunities • Inclusive environment and positive impact on the community