# Member of Technical Staff - Platform at Vals AI

- Company: Vals AI
- What the company does: Private, domain-specific benchmarks in legal, tax, and finance. Backed by a16z and Pear VC.
- Company website: https://www.vals.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $185K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vals-ai/de59bff8-d14d-489a-96d9-b0a5cfceea4f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vals-ai-member-of-technical-staff-platform/

## About the role

You, alongside our team, will own the platform that runs our benchmarks. This spans everything needed to evaluate LLMs at scale: Python libraries, a web platform, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and tooling. You'll work across the stack—whatever needs to be built to run benchmarks reliably and efficiently.

## What they're looking for

- Technical
- Strong engineering fundamentals : You can build and ship quickly with high quality. You should have a track record of building things of significant scope (within jobs, side projects, open source, etc.)
- Python expertise : Significant experience in Python, especially in a professional setting
- System Design Experience: You should be familiar with common concepts like VMs, containerization, load balancers, databases, etc. and when to use them appropriately
- Familiarity with LLMs: You should have experience working with LLM APIs, and understand concepts like temperature, tokenization, reasoning, etc
- Learning velocity: The role encompasses a wide variety of tasks. Rather than expecting you to be an expert on Day 1, we are looking for someone who can learn new skills and technologies quickly

Tags: Engineering & Research