Sal Candido
Founder
Now Engineering fellow and vice president, Biohub
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Affiliations
Current
- Engineering fellow and vice president · Biohub
Previous
- Co-founder and CTO · EvolutionaryScale
Also named in the companies' announcements: Meta / FAIR
Current roles come from these dated records, not from the bio below. Each links the page it was read from.
About
Salvatore (Sal) Candido is an engineering fellow and vice president at Biohub; he was a co-founder and the chief technology officer of EvolutionaryScale. He previously co-led the AI for math and science pillar at Meta's FAIR, and held engineering posts at Google, where he worked on the Search algorithm and was CTO of Project Loon, leading the AI used to navigate its balloons. He earned a doctorate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for work in control systems and AI.
Read on 2026-09-29; for current roles see Affiliations above. Read at: biohub.org ↗ · techcrunch.com ↗
Founded
EvolutionaryScaleProtein design · 2023 · 1 round on record · Seed more than $142 millionBackground: Meta FAIR (ESM team) (as the company's own announcements put it)
Co-founders: Alexander Rives, Tom Sercu
Backed byNat FriedmanDaniel GrossLux Capital
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