
Latent Labs makes biology programmable by providing generative AI models that accelerate molecular design for health and sustainability. They build foundational deep learning models and generative AI…

Latent Labs makes biology programmable by providing generative AI models that accelerate molecular design for health and sustainability. They build foundational deep learning models and generative AI…
Founded: 2023
Founder / CEO: Dr. Simon Kohl
HQ: London; office in San Francisco
Focus: Generative AI models for molecular and protein design
Latest funding: $50M (announced Feb 13, 2025)
Computational protein design, antibody and drug candidate design, enzyme optimization, genetic engineering
2023
Biotechnology
$40,000,000
Part of a $50M total announced funding round; additional participation from other institutional and angel investors.
$10,000,000
Included in the announced $50M total alongside the Series A
“Participation from institutional investors (Radical Ventures, Sofinnova Partners, Flying Fish, Isomer, 8VC, Kindred Capital, Pillar VC) and notable technical angel investors (including Jeff Dean and Aidan Gomez)”
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We are looking for a highly skilled machine learning researcher with significant experience in generative modeling. You will join an interdisciplinary team of machine learners, protein engineers and biologists, jointly working to change the way that we control biology and cure diseases. In your role you will architect novel generative models with the goal of designing new proteins that are functional in wet lab assays.
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We also offer a stimulating work environment, and the opportunity to shape the future of synthetic biology through the application of breakthrough generative models.
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and we are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
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Build machine learning models that work in the physical world ~90% of your time
Contribute to a careful curation of our training and evaluation data.
Propose and build ML evaluation metrics that align with real world success and company goals.
Quickly prototype generative models against our lead metrics and perform deep analyses of improvements.
Collaborate in a joint codebase with other research scientists, engineers and protein designers, maintaining highest code standards.
Contribute to the maintenance of our compute and ML development infrastructure.
In collaboration with the bio team, plan wet lab testing campaigns and carry out model inference against biological targets to enable their testing in the wet lab.
Quickly learn from wet lab results and feedback data to our models.
Self development ~10% of your time
Stay on top of the latest developments in ML.
Gain a strong working understanding of protein and cell biology.
Participate in knowledge sharing, e.g. organize and present at our internal reading group.
Attend and present at conferences.