Bioinformatics Engineer

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical approach to teaching agents the boundary between legitimate biological research and biosecurity concerns
• Work from real protocols, datasets, and literature to establish ground truth for evaluations
• Build datasets to teach agents to reason across pathogen engineering, immune evasion, and dual-use protocol assessment
• Distinguish legitimate research from high-risk requests

Requirements

• 5+ years hands‑on experience with virology, microbiology, immunology, synthetic biology, or bioengineering
• Hands‑on experience with sequencing data, molecular cloning, and reverse genetics
• Ability to reason through wet‑lab protocols
• Pro...