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# Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Scientist at Phylo, Inc.

- **Company:** Phylo, Inc.
- **Location:** South San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/phylo/c5319ac4-5f4d-48bd-8b7f-1bb3025b29b9

## Job description

## About Phylo

Phylo is an applied research lab building agentic intelligence to accelerate discovery for every biomedical scientist. We believe AI agents will fundamentally transform how biomedical research is done. Our fast-growing team brings together researchers and engineers across AI and biology, commercializing the Biomni platform.

Our growing team brings together world class researchers and engineers across AI and biology. Backed by a $13.5M seed round led by a16z, Menlo Ventures and Anthropic, and advised by Nobel Prize laureate and pioneering biologists, Phylo is building the next generation of AI systems for the life sciences.

## About the Role

Our Scientific Solutions team is where our science meets our customers. We're hiring forward deployed scientists with industry experience to partner closely with our enterprise customers, raise the scientific bar of our agents, and make sure outputs hold up under real scientific scrutiny.

The role has two parts: One is constructing the bio environment our agents rely on: building and curating the biomedical skills, tools, databases, and data integrations that power them. The other is making sure the science holds up: designing evaluation pipelines and benchmarks, and doing direct scientific review to measure whether agents meet the standards of working scientists. You'll do both while embedded with customers: running training sessions, scoping and delivering solutions on high-stakes projects, and feeding what you learn back into the product.

We're building a team that spans the drug R&D pipeline, so we're hiring across three areas of depth: discovery, IND-enabling, and clinical/translational. You don't need all three; you need to go deep in at least one and be conversant across the rest.

What you’ll do as a Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Scientist at Phylo:

- Partner with enterprise customers in biotech and pharma to understand their scientific workflows and bring those needs into the product.
- Construct bio environments for our agents: build and curate biomedical skills, tools, databases, and data integrations that expand what agents can do.
- Evaluate agent performance across biomedical domains through internal benchmarks, structured evals, and direct scientific review.
- Validate the scientific accuracy and rigor of agent outputs and drive improvements back into the product with the AI team.
- Deliver in the field: run training sessions, help customers scope and solve real problems, and own delivery from first hypothesis to production.
- Serve as the scientific voice in customer engagements, deployments, and feedback loops.

What We're Looking For:

- PhD training in a relevant field (or MD/PhD or equivalent), with strong command of common biomedical tools, databases, and analytical workflows.
- Industry experience in biotech or pharma (computational biology, bioinformatics, or a closely related function).
- Solid engineering skills: writing code, building pipelines, and working with biological data at scale.
- Comfort working directly with enterprise customers and translating their scientific needs into technical requirements, including running training sessions.
- A strong communicator who can explain complex ideas clearly to both scientists and executives.
- Ability to move quickly in a fast-paced research and product environment.
- Deep expertise in at least one of the following areas (and comfort collaborating across the others):
- Discovery: identifying and optimizing therapeutic candidates across modalities. On the small-molecule side: screening (biochemical, cell-based, or phenotypic), hit-to-lead, and lead optimization; SAR analysis and medicinal chemistry / cheminformatics; chemical and bioactivity data (e.g. ChEMBL, PubChem). On the biologics side: protein and binder design, antibody discovery, de novo protein design, protein engineering, and affinity maturation.
- IND-Enabling (preclinical): nonclinical safety and toxicology, DMPK, PK/PD modeling, exposure-response and dose selection; familiarity with the regulatory requirements and study designs that support an IND filing.
- Clinical & Translational: biomarker strategy, mechanism-of-action confirmation, patient stratification, and translational PK/PD; early clinical development (Phase 1/2, first-in-human); real-world evidence and clinical data (EHR, claims, registries; RWD analysis for effectiveness and safety).

## Nice to Have

- AI-native working style; fluent with modern AI coding tools and agent-based workflows.
- Experience with LLMs, agents, or AI/ML systems applied to biomedical problems.
- Familiarity with foundation models: genomic foundation models, protein language models, or vision models for pathology/imaging.
- Depth in more than one of the three areas above, or breadth across multiple biomedical domains (genomics, proteomics, drug discovery, clinical data).
- Area-specific strengths, such as: structure-based and generative design of small molecules or proteins, e.g. docking, RFdiffusion, ProteinMPNN, ESM (Discovery); PBPK or QSP modeling, e.g. Simcyp, GastroPlus, NONMEM (IND-Enabling); epidemiology / biostatistics, CDISC data standards, digital biomarkers (Clinical & Translational).

Why Join Us?

- Competitive salary and equity share in building the future of biomedical discovery
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage, including free therapy sessions and eyewear stipend
- 401(k) to help you build long-term financial security (US only)
- Unlimited PTO to recharge when you need it (US only)
- Lunch and snacks when you're in the office
- Regular team offsites and company events
- A culture of excellence and speed - we move fast, think big, and support each other every step of the way
- Your work will directly impact our mission to 100X biomedical discoveries through AI

## About Phylo, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: An applied research lab building agentic AI for biomedical scientists, creating an Integrated Biology Environment (IBE) that functions as an IDE for biology.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – $13.5M raised)
- **Headquarters**: South San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Kexin Huang (CEO) and Yuanhao Qu (President)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Artificial Intelligence / Biotechnology / Research Services
- **Target customers**: Biomedical scientists, research institutions, and biopharma enterprises (B2B)
- **Mission**: “Accelerate discoveries for every biomedical scientist” — building a collaborative AI workspace that lets biologists design experiments, analyze data, and reason through the scientific process in one environment.

## Products & Services
- **Biomni Lab** (Integrated Biology Environment – IBE)  
  **Type**: AI-native platform (SaaS)  
  A shared workspace where biologists and AI agents collaborate. Covers literature review, experiment design, data analysis, result interpretation, reagent ordering, and integration with external tools and robotic labs. Designed to be rigorous, personalized, and native to how biologists work.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $13.5M (Seed round, February 2026); estimated annual revenue $264K
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), Anthology Fund, Menlo Ventures (conflicting reports – Tracxn lists Menlo Ventures, LinkedIn names Anthology Fund)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 8 full-time employees (LinkedIn) + 6 active job postings
  - Monthly headcount growth of +33.3% and job posting growth of +500% (LinkedIn)
  - First of its kind “Integrated Biology Environment” concept generating industry interest

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scientific rigor built in**: Agents are designed to challenge their own outputs, flag shaky assumptions, and keep a trail of evidence for reproducibility.
- **Native to biology**: Interface and interactions are based on biological concepts and real researcher workflows, not generic AI.
- **Personalized and collaborative**: The environment adapts to individual researcher preferences and tools, acting as a true partner.
- **Enterprise-grade security**: ISO 27001 certified and SOC 2 Type II compliant, ensuring data protection.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue advancing the IBE to close the loop between experiment design and robotic lab execution, reducing discovery cycles from weeks to hours.
- Expand integration with biomedical databases, models, and lab hardware.
- Scale the platform to serve more research organizations while maintaining scientific rigor and pragmatic usefulness.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, flat team (≈8 people) at an early stage, offering high ownership and impact. Founders (Kexin Huang, Yuanhao Qu) come from Stanford and have backgrounds in AI and biology.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid workspace with offices in South San Francisco (HQ), the Netherlands, and India; remote-friendly options.
- **Notable perks**: Cutting-edge applied research at the intersection of AI and biology; access to enterprise-grade infrastructure; chance to shape the next standard biomedical research tool.
- **Tech stack**: Kubernetes, Python, React, TypeScript, Nextflow, Slurm, Terraform, Lustre.
- **Open roles** (as of mid-2026): Engineering (Product, Systems, Infrastructure), Computational Biology, Enterprise GTM, Customer Success.

## Sources
1. [phylo.bio](https://phylo.bio)
2. [Phylo vision blog](https://phylo.bio/blog/vision)
3. [Built In company profile](https://builtin.com/company/phylo)
4. [LinkedIn company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/phylo-bio)
5. [Tracxn company profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/phylo/__AluRJyaowMkNbsC-e9g_avW8Xbdxb26Epw4168-RJd4)

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