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Member of Technical Staff - Design Engineer

Valthos · New York · On-site

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About Valthos

Backed by Lux.

About the role

Own the design and frontend implementation of core product experiences, from early user flows and prototypes through production-ready interfaces Work directly with users, founders, engineers, and computational biologists to understand complex operational and scientific workflows and translate them into clear, usable software

What they're looking for

  • Demonstrated experience owning both the design and frontend implementation of production-quality web applications, from early exploration through shipped product
  • Strong product and design judgment across interaction, information, and visual design, with the ability to create clear hierarchy, thoughtful flows, and polished interfaces for complex or information-dense software
  • Demonstrated ability to translate technical, ambiguous, or unfamiliar workflows into understandable software without removing the detail users need to make good decisions
  • Strong frontend engineering skills, especially with React, TypeScript, modern CSS, and component-based application architecture
  • Fluency moving between sketches, Figma, coded prototypes, and production implementation, with good judgment about the right level of fidelity for the problem
  • Systems thinking across design and engineering, with an emphasis on reusable interaction patterns, coherent product structure, maintainable components, and a consistent design language
More about this role

Valthos Inc.

Valthos is an applied biological intelligence company. We build and deploy software and biological AI systems to safeguard humanity.

The same AI architectures that enable self-driving cars, land rockets with precision, and deliver expert-level reasoning are beginning to be deployed in biological design. To stay ahead, we must advance our arsenal of tools to capture and design against real-time sensitivities in nature's evolving mutational landscape.

We are a group of mission-driven software engineers from Palantir and applied biological ML engineers from MIT's Broad Institute and DeepMind making the latest advances in computational biology accessible in the real-world for federal and commercial use.

Finding a biological signal is only half the job. The other half is helping someone understand it, decide whether to trust it, and know what to do next.

Valthos users are trying to recognize biological threats, protect people, and make decisions before the picture is complete. The work is full of uncertainty, competing evidence, and unfamiliar technical detail. They need to move from raw data to an answer they can defend: what changed, why it matters, how strongly the...

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