About Us

Radical Numerics is an AI research lab building general biological intelligence. Our mission is to master the code of life, and our purpose is to reduce human suffering.

Our team created Evo, and started the field of generative genomics. Our work was featured on the cover of Science, and presented by our CEO on the main stage of TED2025. Evo was used to create the first AI-generated CRISPR-Cas9, and the first AI whole genome from scratch. Evo 2, featured in Nature, is the largest fully open source AI project across any domain.

In October, we introduced Omnii-1, the world's most advanced multimodal genome language model, and a leap toward general biological intelligence. It unifies 28 biological modalities, spanning DNA, RNA, proteins, epigenomics, and more, in a single model trained on trillions of tokens of biological data In a world first, Omnii-1 designed the first AI-generated bacteriophages to be administered to a human patient with an antibiotic-resistant infection under compassionate use. We released this news alongside seven other project areas, showing the model’s breadth of applications.

The same generative breakthroughs that enable life-saving cures also lowers the barrier to creating engineered threats and AI-generated bioweapons. We believe these forces are inseparable. Radical Numerics was founded to develop both the power to design and the responsibility to defend.

About the Role

As our first dedicated People Operations lead, you'll own the full scope of how Radical Numerics supports its team: compensation, benefits, immigration, onboarding, compliance, and the systems that keep a fast-growing research lab running smoothly. This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys building from the ground up and wants their work to directly shape how a company grows.

You'll work closely with our CEO, Recruiter, and Operations Manager to shape the employee experience from start to finish. Once a candidate accepts an offer, you'll take the lead and stay with them throughout their time here, from securing visas to making day one seamless, to running performance reviews and handling exits with care. Your goal is to make sure every person on our team feels supported, informed, and set up to do their best work.

Our team spans Tokyo and San Francisco. You'll bring clarity and structure the onboarding process, coordinating across countries, regulations, and time zones so that our people can focus on their research.

Much of our people infrastructure is still being built, and that's where you come in. You'll design the policies and processes we need, run them for the first time, and refine them into repeatable systems that scale as we grow. If you're energized by ambiguity and want to build something lasting, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Do

Own compensation and leveling. Maintain comp ranges and the employee-levels mapping, and run equity scenario modeling and benchmarking for new roles.

Plan and run performance review cycles in Complete.

Own onboarding and offboarding end to end, including welcome and pre-start communications, background checks, I-9 verification, system access, and departing-employee accounts.

Serve as primary contact with immigration counsel for O-1 petitions, OPT/EAD cases, and green card renewals, and act as company signatory where appropriate.

Administer Justworks, including benefits, open enrollment, and state registrations for remote employees.

Answer employee and candidate questions about benefits and policy.

Set up and manage international employment through EOR arrangements as needed.

Partner with outside employment counsel on employee relations, performance concerns, terminations, and changes to offer letters and CIIAs.

Lead planning on office move scenarios and timelines with our real estate partners alongside our Operations Manager.

Build the policies, handbook, and compliance practices a growing company needs before it needs them.

What We're Looking For

You have run People Operations at an early-stage company and can explain the systems you built, not just the ones you inherited.