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Member of Technical Staff - Applied AI Engineer - Core Capabilities

Valthos· Engineering
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New York, San FranciscoFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Applied AI Engineer focusing on core capabilities to develop and apply state-of-the-art ML methods for assessing and responding to biological threats and rapidly designing precision biologics.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to crafting and executing on the Valthos-wide research and development roadmap
  • Develop, build, and apply modeling approaches—including adapting and post-training biological frontier models—for tasks in biological security and the design of precision biologics
  • Develop, build, and apply evaluation frameworks to rigorously assess model performance on key tasks
  • Interrogate models to understand their biological learnings, capabilities, and limitations
  • Collaborate closely with computational biologists to understand the signal and artifacts inherent in biological data, and to create and curate datasets
  • Collaborate closely with software engineers to build, deploy, and scale model training and evaluation infrastructure
  • Visualize and communicate results within Valthos and externally
  • Work with customers and external collaborators to understand their needs and be an effective representative of Valthos
  • Embrace learning about areas—technical and non-technical—across Valthos
  • Stay up-to-date on the state-of-the-art methods at the intersection of AI and biology

Qualifications

  • Experience with data-centric development and evaluation of ML models
  • Highly proficient in Python and deep learning libraries (e.g., PyTorch)
  • Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS) and distributed systems
  • Strong understanding of probability and statistics

Skills

Required:Data-centric ML developmentPythonPyTorchCloud computingProbability and statistics
Nice to have:ML modelingLang/Time-series modeling (preferred)Biological data handling (preferred)ML-centric bioinformatics/tools (preferred)Data pipelines & training infra (preferred)Open-source contributions (preferred)
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Valthos builds next-generation biodefense.

Valthos is an applied biological intelligence company. We develop and deploy software and AI methods to outsmart biological evolution and ensure that these tools are deployed to safeguard humanity.

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