We're seeking a Member of Technical Staff for Data Collection & Research to own how Latch sources and curates data.
AboutSeeking a member of technical staff, data partnerships, to work with biotechs, CROs, and clearinghouses to source and generate unique, high-value datasets. The data you generate will train agents on real-world R&D tasks. You will own scoping of use cases and the data curation strategy under three verticals: multi-omics, therapeutics, biosecurity.
What You'll Do- Build partnerships with data vendors, institutions, and labs, and secure access to proprietary data
- Craft high-quality, differentiated datasets that support upcoming biology benchmarks
- Source clinical and molecular datasets directly from institutions and research groups
- Creatively assemble and package public data (patents, publications, molecular atlases, clinical trials, etc.) into meaningful and realistic biological analysis tasks.
- Use bioinformatics tools to process raw datasets into useful, benchmark-ready formats.
- Work ahead of the benches, staging data before it is needed rather than after
Requirements- 3-5+ years working hands-on with biological or biomedical data.
- A track record of finding non-obvious, omics or therapeutics data sources at scale.
- Fluency with primary literature and patent search, and the judgment to assess data quality
- Strong communicator.
Competencies- Partner mindset - You can manage relationships with many parties/vendors at once.
- Product - Skilled at scoping scientific use cases and building partnerships with vendors or clearinghouses.
- Curation Experience - You have curated omics or therapeutics data at scale before.
- Knowledge - You know where the data actually lives.
- Depth - You have biological depth in a related field.
- AI - You are resourceful in levering AI tools to build datasets across scientific domains
- Experience - 3-5+ years in industry
Nice to Have- Experience negotiating data partnerships or licensing agreements
- Experience building datasets for model training or evaluation
Interview adviceBe able to describe in detail a dataset you built from scratch and why it mattered.
Compensation & Logistics- $250-$400k total comp, based on technical depth and experience
- Variable compensation + equity + stock options
- 100% premium covered Blue Shield platinum health plan ($0 deductible / $0 out-of-pocket)
- Free meals (lunch and dinner)
- Waterfront office in China Basin, San Francisco
- Full-time, in-person
Location: San Francisco, CA. In-person.
