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# Business Associate at Radical Numerics

- **Company:** Radical Numerics
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/radical-numerics/8deb58c3-f585-4cc0-9981-32af4ebe4f99

## Job description

## About Us

[Radical Numerics](http://radicalnumerics.ai) is an AI research lab building general biological intelligence. Our mission is to master the code of life, and our purpose is to reduce human suffering.

Our team created Evo, and started the field of generative genomics. Our work was featured on the cover of [Science](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado9336), and presented by our CEO on the main stage of [TED2025](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnbfoFUFm2s). Evo was used to create the first AI gene therapy tool CRISPR-Cas9, and the first [AI whole genome](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675911v1) from scratch. [Evo 2](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10176-5), featured in Nature, is the largest fully open source AI project across any domain.

Radical Numerics is bringing the rigor of distributed systems, model architecture, and numerics research to the challenges of biology. We’ve redesigned the foundation model training stack to turn the world’s raw scientific data (e.g. biological sequences, experiments, and physical processes), into intelligible, generative models that can expand and accelerate what humanity can understand, design, and cure.

The same generative breakthroughs that enable life-saving cures also lowers the barrier to creating engineered threats and AI-generated bioweapons. We believe these forces are inseparable. Radical Numerics was founded to develop both the power to design and the responsibility to defend.

## About the Role

We’re hiring a Business Associate to help our leadership team answer important business questions and turn the answers into action.

You will develop board and business-development presentations, build financial models, support company operations and compliance, and work on special projects across Radical Numerics. One week might involve preparing a board deck; another might involve evaluating whether we should partner with, invest in, or acquire part of a sequencing lab to secure access to patient data.

A core part of this role is being a “fixer”: someone who can take an ambiguous, high-priority problem, figure out what needs to happen, and drive it to completion. You might coordinate across internal teams and external partners, unblock a stalled project, stand up a new process, or step into an area where no clear owner exists yet. The problems will span many parts of the company and life sciences broadly, so you should be comfortable context switching, learning quickly, and doing whatever is required to move an important project forward. This is an ideal role for a recent MBA (or ex-top consulting / investment banking) with a strong analytical foundation who wants broad exposure inside an ambitious early-stage company.

## What You’ll Do

- Manage external relationships. Serve as a point of contact for partners, vendors, and other external stakeholders. Coordinate communication, prepare for meetings, follow up on commitments, and make sure every interaction reflects well on Radical Numerics.
- Run projects end to end. Take ownership of projects that span multiple teams: define scope and timelines, keep everyone aligned, surface risks early, and drive work to completion.
- Support leadership on key priorities.
- Build structure where it's missing. Create the trackers, processes, and documentation that help a small, fast-moving team stay organized as it grows.
- Develop board decks, operating reviews, decision memos, and other executive materials
- Create clear, compelling presentations for business development, partnerships, investors, and recruiting
- Build financial and operating models for budgets, hiring, infrastructure investments, partnerships, and new initiatives
- Research markets, companies, and strategic opportunities and develop practical recommendations
- Support evaluations of partnerships, investments, and acquisitions, including their economics, data rights, risks, and alternatives
- Help coordinate compliance, governance, insurance, contracting, and other operational work with internal owners and outside specialists
- Take on high-priority special projects and help drive them from initial analysis through execution

## Who You Are

- MBA completed or nearing completion
- Major plus for undergraduate degrees in computer science or life sciences
- Approximately two years of experience at a leading management consulting firm, investment bank, strategy team, or similarly rigorous analytical environment
- Strong financial modeling, research, and structured problem-solving skills
- An excellent writer and presentation builder who can turn complex information into a clear recommendation
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing several projects at once
- Curious, low ego, and excited to learn about AI, biology, and the business of building a frontier research company

Experience at McKinsey, Bain, BCG, or another leading consulting firm is especially valuable. Exposure to biotechnology, life sciences, AI, healthcare, corporate development, or startup operations is helpful but not required.

Radical Numerics is committed to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate in any employment opportunities or practices based on an individual's race, color, creed, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), religion (all aspects of religious beliefs, observance or practice, including religious dress or grooming practices), marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver’s license issued under California Vehicle Code section 12801.9), natural hair, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, medical condition (including cancer or a record or history of cancer, and genetic characteristics), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition), genetic information, sexual orientation, military and veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.

Radical Numerics participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

## About Radical Numerics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Radical Numerics is a next-generation AI lab building general biological intelligence, developing multimodal models trained on the fabric of biology to enable discovery, design, and defense in the life sciences.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with a presence in Tokyo, Japan)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (recently announced a $50M seed round)
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed (the founding team previously trained Evo and Evo 2, the largest biological AI models trained on DNA)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Biotechnology (AI for Biology)
- **Target customers**: B2B — partnerships with diagnostics companies, U.S. national labs, and pharmaceutical/therapeutic organizations; also serves the broader scientific community through open-source models.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To master the code of life and to ensure this power is used to save lives." The company is building general biological intelligence to enable faster discovery, deeper understanding, and entirely new capabilities in biology, while simultaneously building biodefense systems to safeguard against misuse.

## Products & Services
- **Evo & Evo 2**: The founding team's prior open-source generative genomics models, trained on millions of genomes across all of life. Evo was used to generate the world's first complete genome from scratch using AI (a bacteriophage). These models established the field of generative genomics.
- **Omnii**: The company's next-generation genome language model (gLM). It features a multi-hybrid architecture with a 2M-token context window, multimodality, and is the first aligned large-scale genome model. It surpasses specialized models across core genetics benchmarks, especially in noncoding and regulatory regions. Omnii is being piloted for early cancer detection (with a diagnostics partner) and for biodefense/biosurveillance (with a U.S. national lab).
- **Biodefense Platform (Omnii for Biosecurity)**: A system designed to detect "deepfake" pathogens, identify suspicious sequences, and attribute engineered function — aimed at global biological resilience against natural, synthetic, and AI-generated threats.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $50 million seed round (announced in 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly named in the seed round announcement. Advisors include Eric Horvitz (CSO of Microsoft), Chris Ré (Stanford), George Church (Harvard), and Andrew Weber (former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs). Partners include a U.S. national lab (for Omnii biodefense pilot) and a diagnostics company (for early cancer detection).
- **Growth Signals**: Raised a $50M seed round; has a data center under construction filled with NVIDIA Blackwells; actively hiring for 11+ roles across San Francisco and Tokyo; building the next generation of biological AI models with a 2M-token context window; partnering with a U.S. national lab and a diagnostics company.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proven Track Record**: The founding team created Evo and Evo 2, the largest open-source biological AI models, which established the field of generative genomics. Evo generated the world's first complete AI-designed genome.
- **First-Mover in Alignment for Biology**: Omnii is the first large-scale genome model to incorporate alignment methods (mid- and post-training), transforming a language model into a reliable scientific instrument.
- **Dual Mandate (Design + Defense)**: Uniquely positioned as both a design lab and a defense lab under one roof, addressing the inseparable forces of biological advancement and biosecurity.
- **World-Class Advisors**: Eric Horvitz (Microsoft CSO), Chris Ré (Stanford), George Church (Harvard), and Andrew Weber (former Assistant Secretary of Defense).
- **Technical Depth**: Team has pioneered models with one-million-token context windows and is now scaling toward one billion, with a focus on novel architectures and systems engineering for scientific data.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling Biological AI**: Building the infrastructure (data center with NVIDIA Blackwells) to train the most powerful biological AI models in the world.
- **Dual Application**: Simultaneously advancing human health (cancer detection, therapeutic design, variant interpretation) and biodefense (pathogen detection, biosurveillance with U.S. national labs).
- **Model Innovation**: Developing new multi-hybrid architectures, long-context windows (2M tokens and scaling to 1B), multimodality, and mechanistic interpretability tools for biology.
- **Open Science Foundation**: While building proprietary systems, the team's prior work (Evo, Evo 2) was released fully open source, establishing credibility in the scientific community.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company is tackling "the most important scientific and technological challenge of our time" — mastering the code of life to cure disease, engineer new medicines, and defend against biological threats.
- **Cutting-Edge Technical Work**: Engineers and researchers work on frontier AI challenges including distributed systems, model architecture, numerics research, long-context models, and mechanistic interpretability — all applied to biological data.
- **On-Site Culture**: The vast majority of roles (10 of 11 listed) are on-site in San Francisco, with some roles also available in Tokyo. This suggests a strong in-person collaboration culture.
- **Interdisciplinary Team**: Brings together AI researchers, systems engineers, computational biologists, and scientists from institutions including Stanford, MIT, and Google DeepMind.
- **High Ambition, Early Stage**: With a $50M seed round and a small team, new hires have the opportunity to shape the company's technical direction and infrastructure from the ground up.
- **Dual Focus on Impact and Responsibility**: The company explicitly states that "the design lab and the defense lab need to be the same entity," offering engineers a chance to work on both creation and safeguarding of powerful technology.

## Sources
1. [radicalnumerics.ai](https://www.radicalnumerics.ai/)
2. [radicalnumerics.ai/about](https://www.radicalnumerics.ai/about)
3. [radicalnumerics.ai/blog](https://www.radicalnumerics.ai/blog/radical-numerics-seed)
4. [radicalnumerics.ai/join-us](https://www.radicalnumerics.ai/join-us)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/radical-numerics)

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