Research Engineer, Bioresilience

Highlights

• Build AI agents powered by Gemini, AlphaFold and AlphaGenome for biodefense.
• Develop scalable tools for threat prevention, pathogen detection and rapid response.
• Translate cutting-edge AI breakthroughs into tools that protect communities.

Ideal candidate

Mission-driven engineer with life-science domain depth who thrives in ambiguity and partners across teams to turn biology into real-world, safe AI impact for public benefit.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience applying deep learning models to biological data (such as functional genomics or protein sequence data).
• Experience manipulating common life science data types including FASTQ, SAM/BAM, gff, BED, VCF, and PDB/CI using bioinformatics or health informatics tools.
• Demonstrated domain knowledge in life sciences, computational biology, or biosecurity (e.g., molecular biology, pathogen genomics, computational plant pathology, protein engineering, bioinformatics, or metagenomics).
• Ability to identify, break down, and solve ambiguous and complex process and technical problems that span across many teams and organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to translate biological concepts into computational workflows and evaluation benchmarks.