Anthrogen
Actively Hiring

Member of Technical Staff (Research Engineer)

San Francisco, CA
Full-time

About the role

Member of Technical Staff (Research Engineer)

The Role

Join Anthrogen's core research team to build the computational infrastructure powering de novo protein design at scale. You'll work directly on Odyssey—our 102B parameter multimodal protein language model—advancing the algorithms, systems, and experiments that enable AI-driven biologics discovery. This is hands-on research engineering: you'll bridge cutting-edge ML and wet-lab validation, moving proteins from model outputs to real-world function.

What You'll Do

  • Develop and optimize training pipelines for large-scale protein language models, including our novel Consensus architecture (linear O(L) complexity) and discrete diffusion objectives
  • Implement multimodal fusion of sequence, 3D structure, and functional data; work with our Finite Scalar Quantizer tokenization for structure encoding
  • Build evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for de novo protein design, collaborating with wet-lab experiments to validate model predictions
  • Scale infrastructure for API access and external collaborator workflows
  • Contribute to both research publication and product development—this role spans papers and deployed systems

Who You Are

  • Strong foundation in deep learning, transformers, or generative models; Python fluency non-negotiable
  • Experience with large-scale model training (distributed training, optimization, inference)
  • Comfort moving between theory and implementation; you can own a research problem end-to-end
  • Curiosity about biology or protein science; you'll learn the domain rapidly and ask good questions
  • Bonus: familiarity with protein structure prediction, language models, or synthetic biology workflows

Apply

Email [email protected] with your background, recent work, and why you're excited about protein AI.

About Anthrogen

Anthrogen is a San Francisco-based AI research lab building large, complex protein assemblies and biological nanomachines. Its Odyssey multimodal protein models generate, edit, and co-design protein sequences and structures. The company combines large-scale generative models with wet-lab experimentation and robotic automation for applications in human health and industrial manufacturing.

High-precision manufacturing applications include fabs and chips. Anthrogen is also beginning to engage in biodefense and biosecurity.

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Job details

Salary

$200,000 - $400,000

Location

San Francisco, CA

Experience

0+ years

Company

NameAnthrogen
IndustryHealthcare
Team Size11

Funding

Last stage

Seed

Investors

BoxGroup
RReGen Ventures
Y Combinator
WWayfinder Ventures
Liquid 2 Ventures
Soma Capital
RRitual Capital
CCollaborative Fund (SFF)
Pioneer Fund
PPaul Graham
KKulveer Taggar
TTodd Goldberg
RRahul Vohra's Angel Fund
JJustin Wenig
NNick Diao
Collaborative Fund
CChris Howard
RRahul Vohra
OOnto Ventures

Founders

Ankit Singhal

Ankit Singhal

Co-Founder & CEO

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Connor Lee

Connor Lee

Co-Founder & CTO

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Vignesh Karthik

Vignesh Karthik

Co-Founder & COO

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.