Member of Technical Staff - Reasoning Workflows

At Latent Labs, we are building frontier models that learn the fundamentals of biology. We pursue ambitious goals with curiosity and are committed to scientific excellence. Before building Latent Labs, our team co-developed DeepMind’s Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold, invented latent diffusion, and built pioneering lab data management systems as well as high throughput protein screening platforms. At Latent Labs you will be working with some of the brightest minds in generative AI and biology.

Our team is committed to interdisciplinary exchange, continuous learning and collaboration. Team offsites help us foster a culture of trust across our London and San Francisco sites.

We’re looking for innovators passionate about tackling complex challenges and maximizing positive global impact. Join us on our moonshot mission.

• You are a strong software engineerwith deep experience in Python, API design, and distributed systems architecture.
• You are an expert in LLM orchestration.You have hands-on experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) and orchestration frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, or have built custom agent frameworks from scratch.
• You understand intelligent information retrieval.You have experience with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems, vector databases, and embedding models for knowledge extraction.
• You can architect complex workflows.You have experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Temporal) or have built custom pipeline systems for multi-step autonomous processes.
• You bridge science and engineering.You are comfortable with scientific computing libraries (NumPy, SciPy, pandas) and understand scientific literature formats, databases (PubMed, arXiv), and academic data processing.

• You have a research background.You are a former academic researcher who transitioned to industry ML/AI roles, or a research software engineer with deep ML/AI experience.
• You're passionate about scientific automation.You have experience with document processing, OCR, text extraction from academic papers, and scientific data formats.
• You understand the research ecosystem.You have worked in academic or pharmaceutical research environments and understand research workflows and publishing processes.
• You're a multimodal specialist.You have a background in natural language processing, particularly for scientific text processing and citation networks.

• Build autonomous scientific agentsthat can execute complex research workflows through natural language interaction—from protein structure analysis to experimental design.
• Architect end-to-end reasoning systemsthat integrate our platform capabilities with intelligent decision-making, enabling users to accomplish sophisticated tasks through simple chat interfaces.
• Develop knowledge discovery pipelinesthat can autonomously mine scientific literature, identify undrugged disease pathways, and propose novel therapeutic targets.
• Create scientific content at scaleby building agents that can design experiments, generate hypotheses, and produce research-grade articles and blog posts.
• Pioneer autonomous lab workflowsby developing agents that can design complex biological systems (like protein-based logic gates) and orchestrate their validation.
• Collaborate with scientiststo understand research pain points and translate them into intelligent automation solutions.
• Publish and evangelisebreakthrough applications of agentic workflows in synthetic biology through articles, blog posts, and scientific demonstrations.

We offer strongly competitive compensation and benefits packages, including:

• Private health insurance
• Pension/401(K) contributions
• Generous leave policies (including gender neutral parental leave)
• Hybrid working
• Travel opportunities and more

We also offer a stimulating work environment, and the opportunity to shape the future of synthetic biology through the application of breakthrough generative models.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and we are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

To apply, please fill in ourapplication form.