Member of the Technical Staff, Interpretability

Job overview

The Member of the Technical Staff, Interpretability role is onsite in San Francisco, CA. The stated compensation range is $150,000–$350,000 per year. Output Biosciences is developing a biological reasoning model and describes its goal as making model reasoning interpretable to support biological research and potential therapies. The role develops methods and tools to probe the model’s learned representations and make its biological reasoning usable by researchers and downstream systems. It connects interpretability research with model development by running experiments, building production-quality tools, and sharing findings with pretraining and generation teams.

What you'll do

• Develop methods to probe and reverse-engineer learned representations
• design experiments to characterize model capabilities and biological concepts
• extract biological understanding into usable outputs
• build tools connecting model internals to biological concepts
• collaborate with pretraining and generation teams
• own the pipeline from probing experiments to production-quality tools on distributed infrastructure.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

member of the technical staff

interpretability

san francisco ca

output biosciences

biological ai

model interpretability

representation analysis

python

pytorch

gpu infrastructure

$150k–$350k

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Equity
• medical, dental, and vision coverage
• day-to-day management autonomy
• constructive feedback and professional growth environment.

Why this role

Requires a PhD with 2+ years of postdoctoral or industry research experience, or a bachelor’s or master’s degree with 5+ years of relevant research and engineering experience; Python, PyTorch, and large-model GPU experience are specified.

About the employer

Output Biosciences is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology). Sector: 54.