Staff Engineer at Dayhoff Labs - AI biology startup backed by DCVC

Cambridge, US
Full-time

About the role

Join Dayhoff Labs, a frontier AI biology startup founded by the creator of DeepMind's AlphaFold, as a Staff Engineer. This is a high impact, full stack ownership role where you will architect the infrastructure, databases, and production APIs powering the future of biochemical discovery. Backed by DCVC and featuring a team from CERN and MIT, this is a rare opportunity to build the technical foundation for a platform solving global challenges in pharma, energy, and synthetic biology. Based in Cambridge, MA or London.

About Dayhofflabs

Dayhoff Labs is a technology company that builds foundational AI models to solve major challenges in chemistry and biochemistry. Using frontier AI, computational chemistry, and novel lab techniques, it targets applications across pharmaceutical manufacture, agriculture, energy, industrial chemistry, and biosensing. Its customers include researchers and industry professionals working on enzyme design, catalyst optimization, and synthetic pathway simulation.

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Job details

Location

Cambridge, US

Company

NameDayhofflabs

Funding

Investors

DDCVC

Founders

SC

Steve Crossan

Founder

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Joshua Goldford

Joshua Goldford

Co-Founder/Member Of Technical Staff

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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.