Member of Technical Staff, Therapeutics
LatchBio
IT
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 180k+ / year + Equity
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
Bioinformatics
As molecular data generation and frontier model intelligence grows, new approaches to data analysis are needed across the biotech industry. Latch is building intelligent, high performance agents for biological data analysis, empowering over 5,000 scientists across 150+ R&D labs to handle data from instrument-to-insights.
We're seeking a Member of Technical Staff for Therapeutics to lead our therapeutics bench, pushing its capabilities to the frontier of what artificial intelligence can achieve in biology.
About the Role
You will design our technical approach to teaching agents how to understand and handle complex therapeutics datasets, mapping out end-to-end data analysis workflows and working from practical therapeutics data to real scientific decisions.
You will lead a team of software engineers and biologists building datasets to teach these agents to reason better across:
Target identification → functional genomics screens
Hit triage & bioactivity
SAR & selectivity
ADMET/DMPK triage → drug response analysis
Requirements
5+ years hands-on experience with therapeutics data
Prior contribution to a novel therapeutics method, tool, or published pipeline
Proficiency in Python and/or R
Compensation & Logistics
$180k+ base, increasing with technical depth and experience
Variable compensation + equity + stock options
100% premium covered Blue Shield platinum health plan ($0 deductible / $0 out-of-pocket)
Free meals (lunch and dinner)
Waterfront office in China Basin, San Francisco
Full-time, in-person
Location: San Francisco, CA. In-person.