Watertownremote

Salary
$154,084–$263,132from the description
Posted
Jul 22, 2026
Location
Watertown
Last confirmed open
Jul 23, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

This role sits at the intersection of AI and biological research, responsible for shaping and building external-facing AI platforms used by scientists for genetic design work. Day-to-day work spans defining benchmarks for agentic biological tasks, developing pipelines that connect computational models to wet lab experiments, and translating scientific questions into production APIs and tools. A doctoral background in a computational life-science field and hands-on production software experience are required.

Senior level · Remote · Doctorate required · Full-time

Must have (1)
APIs
Nice to have (3)
PythonLLMsagent-based systems

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 100,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer occupations, all other). range 60,000–150,000

Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.

What the occupation pays Median $119,144 (middle half $81,115–$160,963). This posting is about at that midpoint.

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (7)

This role is a hybrid AI Product Manager / technical builder — it requires hands-on production engineering (backend systems, APIs, pipelines) as well as product strategy, making it difficult to classify cleanly. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is used as the best fit; 15-1252 (Software Developers) is a strong runner-up given the emphasis on building and scaling production systems.

A PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Data Science, or a related field is listed as a basic (required) qualification — this is treated as a hard degree gate.

Python is listed under Preferred qualifications as 'strongly preferred', so it is marked preferred rather than required despite the strong language.

LLMs and agent-based systems appear under Preferred qualifications and are marked accordingly.

The posting names no specific version control, testing, deployment, or security tooling — only general software development best practices — so no individual tool names are extracted for those areas.

The salary range ($154,084–$263,131/year) is notably wide, suggesting the role may be leveled across a broad band internally.

Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): software development.

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