Design Engineer
- Salary
- $160K - $200K
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
About LatchBio
We build the benchmarks that test whether frontier AI can actually do computational biology. Pharma/biotech, Frontier AI, & solution providers rely on benchmarks.bio to evaluate and improve their AI systems .
We're hiring a Product Design + Frontend Engineer to design and build the experiences researchers use to understand, run, and contribute to our benchmarks; both the internal tools our team uses to build tasks and the public-facing platform where the scientific community engages with our work. You'll shape how researchers interact with AI performance data, how we present our benchmarks and scientific launches to the world, to help determine whether frontier models can reliably handle the complex reasoning that real computational biology requires.
About This Role
You will be working on problems across product design and frontend engineering, including complex product workflows, interaction and visual design, frontend systems, developer and user experience, and our company website. You will work on a small team and have significant control over the direction you take and problems you tackle. You may work on understanding and improving complex workflows across our platform, identifying usability and design problems, developing new interaction patterns, and designing and implementing features from idea through production.
You will also design and build pages and experiences for our company website, including benchmark launches, product announcements, company updates, and other marketing needs. You will work with the team to determine how we present our products and work externally, translating technical ideas into clear, polished web experiences. This is a good fit for someone who cares equally about how something works, how it looks, and how well it is built.
Strong Fit
- Designed and shipped products, interfaces, or websites that people love
- Strong visual, interaction, and product design judgment
- Fluency with modern HTML, CSS, TypeScript, and React
- Ability to move fluidly between design and implementation
- Ability to identify meaningful product problems and independently take them from loosely defined ideas through production
- Experience designing and building polished marketing websites, landing pages, or launch experiences
- Ability to communicate complex technical products clearly through design
- Comfortable working through ambiguity, setting your own direction, and iterating quickly
Who You'll Work With
- Engineering: Aidan, Ryan, Anirudh, Joel, Tim
- Product: Hannah, Nathan
- Founding Team/C-Suite: Alfredo, Kyle, Kenny, Jordan
- BioEngineers/Ai Biologist: 60+ Team
Hiring Process (2 Weeks)
Please send us your résumé and a portfolio showing work you personally designed and built
- Round 1: Introduction - Saul
- Round 2: Technical - Nathan
- Round 3: Cultural - Jordan
- Round 4: Final/ 3-Day Paid Onsite Project
- Offer
Compensation & Benefits:
- Salary: $160K - $200K
- Unlimited PTO policy
- $3,000 bonus for each new hire you originally sourced
- Every lunch and dinner is paid for ($18K annual value)
- 100% premium covered on Blue Shield’s platinum health plan, and 50% premium coverage for dependents. 100% coverage for top-tier Guardian dental and vision plans.
- Ambitious Equity incentives
- 401(k) plan options
- Company-sponsored professional development
- Work visa sponsorship
- Team-wide science/engineering reading groups
Learn More
- Agent.bio — The AI agent for biology
- Benchmarks.bio — The benchmarks for biology agents
- Console.latch.bio — The harness for agentic data analysis
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 5 open in Engineering. 2 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in July: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
AWS (2 of 5), GCP (2 of 5), Python (2 of 5), TypeScript (2 of 5)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Infrastructure Software Engineer (AI Enablement) posted Oct 13
- Technical Ops & Enablement posted Oct 13
- Software Engineer posted Jul 24
- Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Jul 24
From the team and dates on LatchBio's own job board.
Salary context
42 other open postings titled Design Engineer state a salary: median USD 160,000 to USD 235,000 a year.
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