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# Head of Business Development at Radical Numerics

- **Company:** Radical Numerics
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/radical-numerics/b13fc4c3-747b-4910-918f-453de21190d0

## 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

You will lead business development across pharma, diagnostics, and synthetic biology. Your job is to turn scientific interest into partnerships the company should sign: choosing the right accounts, establishing a credible path to funding, and closing the deal.

Our largest partnerships are led by a product and business development pair. The product lead owns the technical scope, evaluation design, and scientific relationship. You own the commercial process: qualification, stakeholder strategy, deal structure, negotiation, and close.

Many of our partnerships combine model access, research, data, and downstream rights in ways that do not fit an established template. You will create the structures, close the first versions, and make the repeatable ones easier to execute again.

## What You’ll Do

- Originate and close partnerships across pharma, diagnostics, and synthetic biology.
- Own the commercial workstream from qualification through signature, alongside a product lead who owns technical scope and scientific execution.
- Map how each account makes decisions: who wants the work, who can fund it, whose approval is required, and what could prevent it from moving.
- Qualify opportunities before they consume research time. Establish whether there is a real budget, a decision-maker, and a plausible path from technical evaluation to a funded program.
- Structure research collaborations, platform-access agreements, licenses, and co-development partnerships. Negotiate economics, intellectual property, data rights, field restrictions, governance, and downstream rights with company leadership and counsel.
- Build account strategy with product leads. They determine what we can commit to technically; you determine what the commitment should be worth and what we need in return..
- Work with our Head of Data Acquisition when data access forms part of a broader commercial partnership.
- Establish the qualification, account-planning, and deal-review practices the company will use as partnership volume grows, and build the business development team over time.
- Coordinate with our Head of Biodefense when a government partnership includes a commercial component.

## What We’re Looking For

- You have personally led and closed complex life sciences partnerships, and can explain what you did from first substantive conversation through signature.
- You have relationships with decision-makers in at least one of our core markets and know how to build credibility in accounts where you do not.
- You understand how large life sciences companies fund and approve work across research, business development, legal, procurement, data governance, and executive leadership.
- You are technically fluent enough to understand what our models can do, identify where a proposed commitment outruns the evidence, and represent Radical credibly with scientific leaders.
- You can distinguish a serious commercial opportunity from an interesting research conversation, and you are willing to end the latter before it consumes the team.
- You are comfortable creating deal structures and internal processes before there is a standard playbook.
- You know how to structure and negotiate platform, discovery, licensing, or co-development agreements, including the tradeoffs among upfront economics, intellectual property, exclusivity, data rights, milestones, and downstream participation.
- You have worked alongside a scientific or technical lead and know how to divide ownership without confusing the customer or undermining your counterpart.
- Excitement about building a generational company and pioneering how AI is commercialized in life sciences.

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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