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“SecureBio Detection is Hiring Software Engineers” by jefftk
I'm leading a non-profit team building a
pathogen-agnostic
early-warning system. As AI systems become
increasingly capable
substitutes for expert human biologist expertise, the risk that
someone could engineer a pathogen to spread widely before detection is
going up. We've made great progress and we're now running the
world's largest
metagenomic biosurveillance network, but there's still a huge
amount that needs doing: we're hiring!
We're processing >50B read pairs of wastewater and nasal swab data
each week (more than anyone else!) and will be more than doubling this
in the next year. At the same time, we need to bring our end to end
time down from ~12hr to ~2hr (massively parallel problem, should be
possible to get <1hr).
This means we're looking for people who know how to build and scale
processing systems and infra, and don't need a bio background:
Software Engineer, High-Performance Pipelines: Engineering our
metagenomic detection pipelines for speed, scalability, and
reliability. (job
description, ~L4-L5 equiv at Google, $165-190k)
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer: Own our AWS infra, which
enables everything above (job
description, ~L5-L6 equiv at Google, $195-220k)
For both of these we're [...]
---
First published:
June 5th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/T2zupWDtoofFgozFo/securebio-detection-is-hiring-software-engineers
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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By LessWrongI'm leading a non-profit team building a
pathogen-agnostic
early-warning system. As AI systems become
increasingly capable
substitutes for expert human biologist expertise, the risk that
someone could engineer a pathogen to spread widely before detection is
going up. We've made great progress and we're now running the
world's largest
metagenomic biosurveillance network, but there's still a huge
amount that needs doing: we're hiring!
We're processing >50B read pairs of wastewater and nasal swab data
each week (more than anyone else!) and will be more than doubling this
in the next year. At the same time, we need to bring our end to end
time down from ~12hr to ~2hr (massively parallel problem, should be
possible to get <1hr).
This means we're looking for people who know how to build and scale
processing systems and infra, and don't need a bio background:
Software Engineer, High-Performance Pipelines: Engineering our
metagenomic detection pipelines for speed, scalability, and
reliability. (job
description, ~L4-L5 equiv at Google, $165-190k)
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer: Own our AWS infra, which
enables everything above (job
description, ~L5-L6 equiv at Google, $195-220k)
For both of these we're [...]
---
First published:
June 5th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/T2zupWDtoofFgozFo/securebio-detection-is-hiring-software-engineers
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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