Member of Technical Staff, Therapeutics

LatchBio

LatchBio

IT

San Francisco, CA, USA

USD 180k+ / year + Equity

Posted on Jun 3, 2026

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.