Bioinformatics Engineer - Function

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering, synthetic biology, virology, microbiology, immunology, or a closely related field
• Direct experience generating or analyzing functional-assay data (titration curves, deep mutational scanning, potency assays, cell-based readouts, etc.) OR computational protein design
• Comfort with quantitative modeling applied to noisy experimental data
• Proficiency in Python and/or R for data analysis & visualization
• Familiarity with at least one of:
• Binding affinity & stability (Tite-seq, SPR/BLI, biophysical characterization)
• Immune escape & immunogenicity assessment
• Viral fitness, host-range, or zoonotic spillover evaluation
• Toxin potency or antimicrobial/antiviral resistance
• Protein design or structure-guided functional design
• Gain-of-function or molecular mechanism investigation
• Nice-to-Have

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