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Back to Episodes“SecureBio Detection is Hiring Software Engineers” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸
Description
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 looking for people to work with us in-person in Kendall Sq (Cambridge [...]
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First published:
June 6th, 2026
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.