We're seeking a Member of Technical Staff for Data Collection & Research to own how Latch sources and curates data.

About

Seeking 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 advice

Be 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.