# Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Engineer at Valthos

- Company: Valthos
- What the company does: Backed by Lux.
- Company website: https://valthos.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-04-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valthos/6f460b05-94b1-457a-ac7d-17af48425ca2
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/valthos-member-of-technical-staff-forward-deployed-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering