Member of the Technical Staff, Interpretability
About the role
Output is a startup developing a groundbreaking biological reasoning model that learns molecular interactions at the scale of life. This model is capable of generating therapies beyond the reach of traditional approaches, solving some of the most challenging problems in AI and biology.
Responsibilities
- Develop methods to understand what the foundation model learns about biology
- Build tools that make the model's reasoning visible and usable
- Design and run experiments to identify and characterize the model's capabilities
- Create tools that connect model internals to meaningful biological concepts
- Work closely with the pretraining and generation teams to refine model capabilities
- Own the entire pipeline from experimental design to production-quality interpretability tools
Requirements
PhD in computer science, machine learning, physics, mathematics, or a related field with 2+ years of post-doctoral or industry research experience, or a Bachelor's or Master's degree with 5+ years of hands-on research and engineering experience in model interpretability or representation analysis.
Qualifications
- Strong publication record at top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)
- Experience analyzing the internal representations of large neural networks
- Proficiency in Python and PyTorch
- Experience working with large models on GPU infrastructure
- Ability to take interpretability research from experiments to usable tools
- Production-quality code that is well-tested and maintainable
- Ability to distinguish real capabilities from artifacts in model learning
Skills
- Model interpretability
- Representation analysis
- Probing methods
- Biological understanding
- Visualization and analysis tools
- Multimodal models
Benefits
- Healthy feedback-focused environment
- Competitive salary and equity
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
Pay
Competitive salary and equity in a growing, well-funded startup
Schedule
Flexible work schedule to accommodate the needs of the individual and the company
Company
Output is a startup backed by top-tier VCs including Y Combinator, operating with a team of repeat founders and biotech veterans with multiple exits in AI x Bio. We believe in excellence, practicality, honesty, and fun, fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.