Software Engineer
- Salary
- $180k - $250k /yr
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 6 November 2026.
About the role
About LatchBio
Our mission is to advance humanity's ability to engineer biology. We approach this by understanding and improving AI’s application to biology use cases such as therapeutics and biosecurity. We are a group of engineers, scientists, and operations specialists who are driven by improving capabilities and interpretability. Some of our work is showcased on benchmarks.bio.
About this role
You will be working on problems including agent infrastructure and orchestration, ML infrastructure, model benchmarking at scale, full stack web development, developer and user experience, and process optimization. Infrastructure challenges span container orchestration, sandboxing, distributed filesystems, cloud architecture, and database systems.
How we work
Our engineering team is in-person in San Francisco. We look for driven engineers who are excited to take ownership on hard problems and ship creative, useful solutions.
Hiring process
Our process is typically completed within two weeks.
- Round 1: Introduction
- Round 2: Takehome Coding Project
- Round 3: Technical
- Round 4: Final/ 2-Day Paid Onsite Project
- Offer
Compensation & Benefits
- $180k–$250k/yr
- Equity
- Unlimited PTO (truly)
- Office in China Basin, San Francisco
- Office meals
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 12 open in Engineering. 6 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
TypeScript (6 of 12), AWS (4 of 12), CSS (4 of 12), GCP (4 of 12), HTML (4 of 12), Python (4 of 12), React (4 of 12)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Product Designer posted Nov 3
- Product Designer posted Nov 3
- Infrastructure Software Engineer (AI Enablement) posted Oct 13
- Infrastructure Software Engineer (AI Enablement) posted Oct 13
- Technical Ops & Enablement posted Oct 13
- Technical Ops & Enablement posted Oct 13
- Design Engineer posted Aug 28
- Design Engineer posted Aug 28
- Software Engineer posted Jul 24
- Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Jul 24
- Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Jul 24
From the team and dates on LatchBio's own job board.
Other openings for this role
2 open postings for this role in San Francisco, first posted 2 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.
- 6 November 2026 – open (this posting)
- 2 October 2026 – open
Salary context
255 other open postings titled Software Engineer state a salary: median USD 149,000 to USD 215,000 a year.
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