I'm leading a non-profit team building a
[pathogen-agnostic
early-warning system](https://securebio.org/detection/). As AI systems become
[increasingly capable](https://securebio.org/benchmarks/)
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](https://securebio.org/careers/2026-software-engineer-pipelines/), ~L4-L5 equiv at Google, $165-190k)
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer: Own our AWS infra, which
enables everything above ([job
description](https://securebio.org/careers/2026-cloud-infra-engineer/), ~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!
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