Member of Technical Staff - Scientific Developer Relations

FutureHouse is a new, non-profit AI-for-science lab using AI to automate research in biology and other complex sciences. 

We are backed by Eric Schmidt, and our mission is to build AI systems that can scale scientific research and allow humanity to proceed as quickly as possible to find cures for disease, solutions for climate change, and other species-accelerating technologies.

We are seeking a creative, ambitious, and productive individual to join our team. Ideal candidates will be collaborators with our existing team of researchers and engineers, leveraging their technical expertise to create engaging educational content, manage community outreach, and serve as a bridge between external developer/scientist feedback and internal engineering decisions, ensuring that our tools effectively accelerate scientific progress.

This role is based in our San Francisco office.

Responsibilities:

• Create educational content and tutorials to engage external developers and scientists with our tools and results.
• Manage GitHub issues, ensuring effective communication between users and internal engineering teams.
• Oversee social media, specifically targeting developers and scientific communities to increase awareness of our work.
• Act as a technical representative in external partnerships, attending meetings with a complete understanding of our technical stack.
• Bridge external feature requests and interests with internal engineering decisions to improve our tools and systems.
• Cultivate and grow the community around our technology by managing discussion, attending hackathons, and building engagement through technical blog posts, release announcements, and social media content.
• Lead external technical projects, collaborating with partners and ensuring successful implementation of joint initiatives.
• Highlight and communicate key results through blog posts, tutorials, and other outreach efforts to demonstrate how our work accelerates scientific progress.

Requirements:

• Strong technical background with a solid understanding of biology and experience communicating complex technical concepts.
• Excellent writing skills, with the ability to produce clear and engaging technical content such as tutorials, blog posts, and guides.
• Proven experience managing social media and community engagement for technical audiences, particularly developers and scientists.
• Ability to represent the company in technical partnership meetings and discussions with external stakeholders.
• Proven track record of independently managing short-term technical projects.
• Passion for building and supporting technical communities, with experience managing platforms such as Discord and attending industry events like hackathons.
   
• Experience with external partnerships - like writing proposals or SOWs in for partnerships.

What we offer:

• We are working on interesting fundamental problems in science. You'll have unique access to working on long-term mission driven problems like how to design AI systems that improve the speed of research.
• We have a ton of resources, including wet lab, compute, etc.
• We publish our work.
• Our headquarters in Dogpatch (SF) is super cool.

And also the normal HR stuff:

• Annual salary range: $100K - $500K
• 401(k) plan with company matching
• Great medical benefits at low or no cost to you
• Flexible time off
• Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible
• The ability to join an ambitious start-up on the ground floor

What can you expect from FutureHouse?

• We are tight-knit and collaborative research culture.
• We are fiercely committed to a flat structure, team science, and individual contributions: we believe that the way to enable discoveries is to enable small, integrated teams of outstanding biologists and AI researchers to iterate rapidly towards ‘big-if-true’ ideas.
• We work to flexibly hire the best talent in the world and to enable that talent to pursue their best ideas without the normal distractions, like product engineering, grant writing, etc.

 

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