PhD Intern – Bioinformatics Applied AI (Agentic Workflow Development)

Bactobio is a biotechnology startup using AI, synthetic biology, and multiomics to discover new antimicrobial classes. The PhD Intern will design and build agentic LLM workflows for bioinformatics and metabolomic chemistry, contributing Python code, workflow architectures, prompt designs, and evaluation methods to support scientific decision-making and production systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build agentic LLM workflows that support decision-making in bioinformatics and metabolomic chemistry at Bactobio, using the latest capabilities in modern AI
• Contribute Python code to turn messy scientific questions and tradeoffs into reliable workflows, combining frontier LLMs with our proprietary biological data to produce recommendations scientists can use and trust
• Explore workflow architecture and tool use, prompt and instruction design, and quality evaluation with benchmarking, testing, and iteration
• Ship real code
• Collaborate with wet-lab and automation scientists, data scientists, bioinformaticians, and software engineers