# Senior Biology Specialist

**Company**: TaskUs
**Location**: Remote, USA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $100,000 - $160,000
**Category**: Other
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

TaskUs partners with pioneering technology companies to build the safety, intelligence, and human-in-the-loop operations powering next-generation artificial intelligence.

In this role, you will join a specialized life-sciences pod supporting one of the world’s foremost frontier AI companies. The mission is vital: prevent state-of-the-art AI systems from lowering technical barriers to the creation or proliferation of biological weapons and catastrophic biological risks.

As a Senior Biology Specialist, you will evaluate complex, high-consequence escalations, separate legitimate scientific work from actionable risk, mentor Junior Specialists, and produce the high-fidelity labels used to validate and train automated safety classifiers at scale.

**What You Will Do:**

- Tackle Complex Escalations: Review and adjudicate nuanced, high-severity cases escalated from automated detection queues and Junior Specialists across priority biosecurity risk vectors.

- Deep Dual-Use Evaluation: Apply advanced scientific reasoning to distinguish legitimate academic, medical, or diagnostic research from actionable, weaponized biological pathways.

- Review & Mentorship: Perform quality assurance (QA) on casework completed by Junior Specialists, provide constructive technical feedback, and help lead regular calibration sessions to ensure consistency across the pod.

- Appeals & Policy Enforcement: Evaluate customer appeals, document detailed evidence-backed rationales for enforcement actions, and recommend policy determinations.

- Ground-Truth Labeling: Generate precise, defensible case annotations that serve as gold-standard benchmark datasets to measure and fine-tune internal automated safety filters.

- Reporting & Escalations: Synthesize technical findings into clear risk assessments for the Principal Biology Specialist and client safety leads, escalating novel threat patterns or ambiguous boundary cases promptly.

**What You Bring:**

- Advanced Degree (Master’s or Ph.D.) in Microbiology, Virology, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Synthetic Biology, Biosecurity, or a directly related discipline.

- 5+ years of professional experience in biodefense, biosecurity policy, biosafety oversight, public health threat surveillance, or BSL-3 laboratory operations.

- Applied Threat Fluency: Deep technical familiarity with high-consequence human, animal, and plant pathogens, toxin production pathways, and the Federal Select Agent Program guidelines.

- Dual-Use Discretion: Proven ability to discern benign educational or defensive life-science questions from illicit protocol formulation with partial or fragmented user input.

- Mentorship & Quality Standards: Demonstrated capability to peer-review scientific analysis, maintain operational labeling consistency, and mentor junior colleagues.

- Communication: Strong technical writing skills with the ability to summarize complex microbiological mechanisms into concise, actionable risk memos.

- Location & Authorization: Based in the United States with unrestricted work authorization.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive industry salaries

- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) with company match

- Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and holidays

**Salary Range:** $100,000 - $160,000 per year

## Skills

### Required
- Microbiology
- Virology
- Molecular Biology
- Immunology
- Synthetic Biology
- Biosecurity
- Biodefense
- Biosafety oversight
- Public health threat surveillance
- BSL-3 laboratory operations

### Nice to have
- DNA synthesis screening protocols
- Gene editing compliance
- Biosecurity red-teaming
- AI safety
- Prompt evaluation
- Computational biology tools
- U.S. Government Security Clearance

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