Latent Labs Startup
Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA On-site Added 2 days ago
About the role
Latent Labs builds frontier generative biology models for drug discovery and protein engineering -- team co-developed DeepMind AlphaFold and invented latent diffusion. Forward Deployed AI Engineer serves as the bridge between frontier biology models and pharmaceutical/biotech customers. Owns full lifecycle of customer deployments: technical scoping, API integrations, data pipelines, model-serving infrastructure. Works on-site/embedded internationally with pharma/biotech partners. CS/ML degree; demonstrated experience deploying AI systems for external customers; hands-on AWS and cloud infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD); strong cross-functional communication. Bio/protein design background and pharma industry experience are strong differentiators. Competitive compensation with private health insurance, pension, hybrid working. SF and London sites.
Industry
Biotech / generative biology / drug discovery
Top skills for this role
- ML infrastructure and API development
- cloud deployment (AWS/Docker/K8s)
- pharma/biotech customer deployment
Languages
Python
Frameworks & tools
DockerKubernetesCI/CD pipelinesAWS (GCP/Azure)
AI / ML skills
LLM infrastructuremodel serving APIsgenerative biology modelsprotein designML-driven pharma
Customer skills
pharma/biotech customer embedding on-site internationally, trusted technical relationships, technical scoping and documentation
Domain knowledge
drug discovery, protein engineering, pharma/biotech, computational biology
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