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 MA). We're offering a $5,000 referral bonus, paid out in stages: $150 if we
invite them to a technical interview, another $650 if we bring them on
site, another $2000 if they accept an offer from us, and a final
$2,200 at the three month mark. If you know engineers, a few minutes
thinking about who might be a good fit is worth your time, and theirs! Comment via: facebook , lesswrong , the EA Forum , mastodon , bluesky , substack
SecureBio Detection is Hiring Software Engineers
Brief
SecureBio Detection is a non-profit running the world’s largest metagenomic biosurveillance network, processing >50B read pairs/week from wastewater and nasal swabs and aiming to more-than-double that in a year. They seek engineers to optimize high-performance pipelines and AWS infrastructure to cut end-to-end latency from ~12 hr to ~2 hr (goal <1 hr), offering two Cambridge in-person roles ($165–220k) and a $5,000 staged referral bonus.
Why it matters
Processes >50 billion read pairs per week of wastewater and nasal-swab metagenomic data, plans to more-than-double throughput within a year and reduce end-to-end time from ~12 hours to ~2 hours (massively parallel; <1 hour feasible).
Key details
- Hiring two in-person Cambridge (Kendall Sq) roles: Software Engineer, High-Performance Pipelines (~Google L4–L5) $165–190k; Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (~L5–L6) $195–220k.
- Offering a $5,000 staged referral bonus ($150 at technical-interview invite, $650 if brought on site, $2,000 on offer acceptance, $2,200 at three months); contact via Facebook, LessWrong, EA Forum, Mastodon, Bluesky, Substack.