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Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Engineer

Valthos · New York · On-site

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About Valthos

Backed by Lux.

About the role

Own the end-to-end deployment of Valthos's platform in customer environments, from scoping requirements through go-live and iteration Embed with government and commercial users to deeply understand their missions, workflows, and pain points across biosurveillance, threat characterization, and countermeasure design

What they're looking for

  • Strong software engineering background with demonstrated ability to build and ship production systems
  • Expertise with Python, react, typescript, and other common languages and technologies
  • Mastery of data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical underpinnings of modern application stacks
  • Deep understanding of how technical decisions impact the user of what you are building and how to balance tradeoffs between technical complexity and speed of iteration
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in teams of technical and non-technical individuals, and comfortable working in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users
  • Demonstrated ability to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision
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.

Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) are the connective tissue between Valthos's platform and the operators using it. They deploy directly alongside our users at national security agencies, national laboratories, and pharmaceutical companies. Projects often start with a nebulous question: "How do we know if this sequence is dangerous?" or "Can we design a countermeasure against this variant in days instead of months?" FDEs lead the way in developing a solution, from...

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