Software Engineering at SecureBio

October 23rd, 2025
tech
I've had a lot of people reach out to me who are interested in working on biosecurity, but have a background in software engineering / computer science. A lot of these conversations have looked something like:

A: I'd be really excited to work on biosecurity, it seems really important and relatively neglected. Are you hiring for software engineers at SecureBio?

Me: I wish we were, you seem really great! But I don't know when we will be, depends on funding and some strategy questions.

This has now changed, and SecureBio is now hiring for two different software engineering roles that don't require a biology background:

Consider applying?

Happy to answer questions!

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