Machine Learning Scientist

Latent Labs is an active AI-for-science company building generative models and agentic workflows for programmable biology and drug design.

London & San Francisco

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About Latent Labs

Latent Labs develops the Latent Labs Platform and the Latent-X model family and Latent-Y agent to help researchers generate protein binders, antibodies, peptides, and other therapeutic molecules.

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About the Role

You will curate training and evaluation data, build evaluation metrics, and prototype generative models for protein design. You will analyze model improvements, maintain ML infrastructure, plan wet-lab testing campaigns, run inference against biological targets, and use experimental feedback to improve models.

Requirements

  • Generative modeling
  • Machine learning research
  • Machine learning development
  • Version control
  • Code review
  • Cloud hardware training and inference
  • Parallel data and model processing across accelerators
  • Machine learning data pipeline
  • Data analysis
  • Dataset splitting
  • Deep learning performance optimization

Responsibilities

  • Curate training and evaluation data
  • Build ML evaluation metrics aligned with real-world success
  • Prototype generative models and analyze improvements
  • Maintain high code standards in a shared codebase
  • Contribute to compute and ML development infrastructure
  • Plan wet-lab testing campaigns with the biology team
  • Run model inference against biological targets
  • Use wet-lab results and feedback data to improve models
  • Stay current with machine learning developments
  • Build working knowledge of protein and cell biology
  • Share knowledge through internal reading groups
  • Attend and present at conferences

Benefits

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