Head of Technical Staff (Up to $500K + Equity) at Anthrogen.com

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Job Title: Head of Technical Staff

Salary: Up to $500K + Equity

Company Description: Anthrogen.com - YC S24 biotech startup designing novel proteins

Job Description:
Lead the end-to-end production pipeline for the world’s largest protein foundation models. You will oversee pretraining, post-training, and inference for Odyssey, a 102B parameter biological model. This hands-on leadership role bridges frontier AI research and wet-lab validation to create novel therapeutics and molecular machines that do not exist in nature.

Location: San Francisco, USA

Why this role is remarkable:

• Work on Odyssey, the largest reported biological foundation model with 102B parameters, scaling AI to design proteins with atomic precision.

• Join a high-intensity YC S24 team backed by $11M from Paul Graham, Box Group, and other top-tier investors as they prepare for Series A.

• Unique opportunity to move beyond digital-only AI into physical-world impact where your models design molecules that become real-world catalysts and medicines.

What you will do:

• Own the production model pipeline including large-scale pretraining, post-training, and inference optimization for flagship protein models.

• Lead and scale the Technical Staff team while collaborating directly with the co-founders on architectural decisions and research direction.

• Interface between fundamental AI research and the wet-lab platform team to validate generative designs through massively parallelized experiments.

The ideal candidate:

• Must have 2+ years of experience at a frontier lab such as OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, or top bio-AI labs like Isomorphic or Baker Lab.

• Proven track record of high-caliber research with publications at top venues like NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR and hands-on large-scale training experience.

• Deep technical expertise in ML/AI architectures with a genuine passion for biology; a PhD is welcomed but caliber and work history are prioritized.

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