Member of Technical Staff, Rare DiseaseThe roleYou will be Latch's authority on inherited disease. You will own our rare disease benchmarks and decide what a correct rare disease workflow looks like, from variant to mechanism to therapeutic strategy, so that every task we ship would satisfy a clinical geneticist.
This is a new function at Latch. You will define what it needs as much as you will execute it.
What you will do- Author and ship the rare disease benchmarks on our roadmap: RareDisease-App and RareDiseaseBench-App.
- Be the scientific authority at Latch for all things rare and inherited disease. Before Latch makes a claim about a rare disease, you are the final reviewer.
- Potentially collaborate on and run drug programs in the wet lab, guiding discovery and development workflows. We are considering running agent-directed drug programs in a real lab.
- Work with CROs, diagnostic laboratories, and patient foundations to run experiments and gather data that inform the design of our benchmarks and agents.
- Build a function beyond yourself: advisors, partners, and a hiring plan.
What we look for- You have spent years working hands-on in rare or inherited disease: diagnosing patients, building the pipelines that do, or developing therapies for them.
- You have strong, defensible opinions about what correct work looks like in your field.
- You want to build a function, not fill a seat.
The interviewOne interview will be a detailed discussion of a rare disease case or program you know well: how the diagnosis was reached, the mechanism behind it, and where the workflow could have gone wrong.
LocationThis is a full-time, in-person position at our waterfront office in China Basin, San Francisco. The team works from the office five days a week. The role is not hybrid or remote.
Compensation and benefits- Total compensation ranges from $250,000 to $400,000, depending on experience.
- We believe in long-term incentive plans and provide equity and 401(k) contributions.
- Benefits include a Blue Shield Platinum health plan with 100% of premiums covered, no deductible, and no out-of-pocket costs.
- Daily meals, including lunch and dinner, are provided. Travel and accommodations for scientific conferences and other professional networking trips are included.
