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Machine Learning Scientist

Latent Labs· Foundation Models
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Hybrid (London)Full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Machine learning researcher focused on generative modeling to design functional proteins, joining an interdisciplinary team in a hybrid London setting.

Responsibilities

  • Build machine learning models that work in the physical world
  • Contribute to a careful curation of our training and evaluation data.
  • Propose and build ML evaluation metrics that align with real world success and company goals.
  • Quickly prototype generative models against our lead metrics and perform deep analyses of improvements.
  • Collaborate in a joint codebase with other research scientists, engineers and protein designers, maintaining highest code standards.
  • Contribute to the maintenance of our compute and ML development infrastructure.
  • In collaboration with the bio team, plan wet lab testing campaigns and carry out model inference against biological targets to enable their testing in the wet lab.
  • Quickly learn from wet lab results and feedback data to our models.
  • Self development: Stay on top of the latest developments in ML.
  • Gain a strong working understanding of protein and cell biology.
  • Participate in knowledge sharing, e.g. organize and present at our internal reading group.
  • Attend and present at conferences.

Qualifications

  • Experience in generative modeling
  • Strong ML researcher with notable ML projects/publications or contributions to open source libraries
  • ML developer with robust, tested production-ready code and cloud training/inference experience
  • Data engineer with ML data pipeline experience for training/evaluation
  • Passion for model performance and optimization across hardware, data and software
  • Mission-driven and curious mindset, thrives in fast-paced environments
  • Experience in computational biology or protein design (preferred)
  • Natural science background (preferred)

Skills

Required:Generative modelingML engineeringData pipeline design
Nice to have:Bio literacy

Benefits

  • Private health insurance
  • Pension/401(K) contributions
  • Generous leave policies (including gender neutral parental leave)
  • Hybrid working
  • Travel opportunities and more
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Latent Labs

Frontier models for all molecules of life

We are making biology programmable to transform health and sustainability for the benefit of all. We build generative models that capture the fundamentals of biology, empowering partners with breakthrough AI to create antibodies, optimize enzymes, and advance genetic engineering.

BiologyAIGenomicsProtein DesignGenetic EngineeringMachine Learning
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