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We work with frontier labs and pharma to measure whether agents can handle real biological workflows: the messy, multi-layer reasoning that matters in the field.\nWe’re seeking an AI Biologist to join our Medical Countermeasures team, pushing what AI can achieve in vaccine, antibody, and antiviral development against respiratory viruses.\nAbout the Role. You will be the scientific authority on ground truth, testing whether agents can reason like an expert countermeasures scientist. The benchmark covers vaccines, therapeutic antibodies, and antivirals for influenza, RSV, and coronaviruses. AI agents today struggle to interpret raw neutralization, epitope, and drug-response data, to separate real escape or resistance from assay noise, and to make the advance-or-kill calls an expert would stand behind. You’ll work with scientists and engineers to build the tasks and datasets behind our benchmarks, and your judgment will set the standard agent outputs are held to.\nBuild the task\nTurn real countermeasure workflows into tasks with clear, gradable answers: antigen and immunogen comparison, epitope mapping, neutralization and cross-reactivity, antiviral susceptibility, and resistance interpretation\n\nWrite gold-standard answers from raw data, with tolerances that reflect real assay, replicate, and strain variability\n\nCurate data: neutralization titers, binding and epitope maps, serology time courses, EC50 and dose-response curves, and viral sequences with resistance markers\n\nSet the hard calls\nTest whether agents can tell real escape or resistance from artifact: a titer drop that’s really assay drift, a passenger mutation mistaken for a resistance marker, or a single fold-change not backed by sequence data\n\nTest whether agents separate binding from neutralization, immunogenicity from protection, and lab resistance from clinical relevance\n\nTest whether agents account for immune imprinting, waning, and cross-resistance when ranking candidates\n\nJudge the agent\nChallenge conclusions that sound right but wouldn’t survive a program review\n\nPinpoint where agents go wrong, what an expert would do instead, and what evidence would change the call\n\nReward explicit uncertainty over confident guesses\n\nRequirements\n3+ years of hands-on experience in either vaccine/antibody development or antiviral development, ideally in respiratory viruses (influenza, RSV, or coronaviruses)\n\nDeep expertise in at least one of the areas below, in priority order within each track: Vaccines and antibodies\nVaccine antigen design, immunogen engineering, or therapeutic antibody discovery\n\nEpitope mapping, neutralization, cross-reactivity, and immune recognition\n\nComparative evaluation of vaccine or antibody candidates from experimental data\n\nAntibody responses, immune imprinting, or waning immunity\n\nAntivirals\nAntiviral susceptibility and resistance, including phenotypic drug-response and viral sequence data\n\nAntiviral discovery, mechanism-of-action studies, or experimental evaluation of candidates\n\nTreatment-emergent resistance, cross-resistance, and resistance-marker interpretation\n\nAntiviral assay development, validation, and dose-response analysis\n\nPhD in immunology, virology, microbiology, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience\n\nYou’ve analyzed the data yourself, not just supervised it\n\nAI-ready: daily use of Claude, ChatGPT, or similar, with the judgment to spot answers that are technically correct but scientifically wrong\n\nConfidence to overrule an AI agent, and openness to update when shown wrong\n\nCulture @ Latch\nWe practice radical transparency: you’ll know how the company is doing, what’s working, and what isn’t. It’s always us against the problem, never each other. We’re opinionated but respectful of each other’s time, and we think through possible solutions before bringing a problem to anyone. We use AI constantly, so we reward original expert judgment, not AI output passed off as your own. You’ll start on the bench that fits your expertise and can move across teams as you build a track record.\nOutside of work: company outings most months, team off-sites, and a community that does cycling, soccer, figure skating, boxing, running, martial arts, music, books, and game nights.\nCompensation & Logistics\nPay: $140K-$180K OTE (on-target earnings), with no ceiling.\nYour pay is your OTE times your weekly quota attainment. Hit quota, earn your OTE; double it, earn double. Example: $150K OTE at double quota = $300K.\n\nYour first 4 weeks (ramp) are paid at full OTE while we train you.\n\nYou’re paid full OTE whenever quota can’t fairly apply: when a new project is starting, the platform goes down, or we pull you onto a special project.\n\nIn the US: full-time W-2\nGuaranteed base set by your state, paid every paycheck no matter what\n\nHealth, dental, vision: 100% covered for you, 50% for dependents\n\n401(k) (no match)\n\nPTO: 12 days to start, more as you’re promoted\n\nOutside the US: contractor\nPaid on performance, with a monthly advance of 60% of OTE that’s never clawed back. 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