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How Arc Institute hires

Truth index
B 83/100
Median time to fill
68 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
50%
Reposted roles
0%

Arc Institute scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 8 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 50% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 68 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Arc Institute is a biomedical research organisation combining wet laboratory science with machine learning. Its teams released genome scale foundation models such as Evo. The institute funds long horizon research outside the university grant cycle.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Arc Institute over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
30
Postings analysed
22
Stack modernity
68/100AI adopter
Languages
Python41%
SQL5%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch14%
JAX5%
TensorFlow5%
FSDP5%
AI & ML
Claude5%
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Full Arc Institute tech stack 30 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$182k
Typical range
$80k – $420k
Open positions
21
11 Jobs
Senior 45.5%
Staff 18.2%
Architect 36.4%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 5 $183k $106k – $326k
Staff 2 $209k $182k – $237k
Architect 4 $410k $265k – $420k
Highest paying role Director, Machine Learning, Alzheimer's Disease Initiative $420k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Arc Institute By role, level and city, against the market · 21 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
26
6 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
68 days
faster than 19% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Science & Research
55% ▼
Operations
9% ▼
AI/ML
5% ▲
Backend
5% ▲
Administrative
5% ▼
Communications
5% ▲
Actively hiring for Science & Research (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Compound to stack Oct 2026
Added SQL to stack Oct 2026
Added Rest API to stack Oct 2026
Added SLURM to stack Oct 2026
Added NCCL to stack Oct 2026
Added LLM Evaluation to stack Oct 2026
Added FSDP to stack Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Palo Alto
Palo Alto United States
HQ
Headquarters - 3181 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, CA
26 open roles 22 posted in 90 days 58% engineering 200-500 est. staff $195k Avg Salary
hires for Science & Research, AI/ML, Leadership
seen since Nov 2024 careers board, company site, job postings
Institute United States
Regional office
Arc Institute
Palo Alto, CA 94304
company site

Jobs

≈ $148k – $284k per year (Estimated) • In office • Contractor • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Palo Alto
HPC
Life Sciences
CRISPR
Flow Cytometry
Cell Culture
Molecular Cloning
LIMS
Benchling
FlowJo
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$127k – $157k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Palo Alto
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$191k – $237k per year • In office • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Palo Alto
Python
AI Agents
PyTorch
FSDP
NCCL
LLM Evaluation
DevOps
SLURM
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$118k – $146k per year • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Palo Alto
Python
SQL
AI Agents
DevOps
Rest API
Life Sciences
LIMS
Benchling
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≈ $102k – $211k per year (Estimated) • In office • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Palo Alto
CRISPR
Antibody Engineering
Molecular Cloning
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≈ $135k – $259k per year (Estimated) • In office • Contractor • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Palo Alto
Cell Culture
LIMS
Benchling
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$84k – $106k per year • In office • Contractor • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Palo Alto
Python
qPCR
Flow Cytometry
Cell Culture
LIMS
Benchling
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$121k – $160k per year • In office • PhD • Palo Alto
Python
Flow Cytometry
Cell Culture
Next-Generation Sequencing
Single-Cell Sequencing
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$135k – $187k per year • In office • PhD • Palo Alto
Python
Machine Learning
Life Sciences
CRISPR
Single-Cell Sequencing
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$160k – $238k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • PhD • Palo Alto
Machine Learning
Life Sciences
CRISPR
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$380k – $420k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • Master's Degree • Palo Alto
JAX
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Machine Learning
Life Sciences
Single-Cell Sequencing
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$380k – $420k per year • In office • 7+ years exp • PhD • Palo Alto
PyTorch
Machine Learning
Life Sciences
Single-Cell Sequencing
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