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Member of Technical Staff - Software Engineer

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

About the role

Software Engineer to design and implement a scalable platform enabling frontier methods in computational biology, with focus on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, REST APIs, and data visualization for life-science users.

Responsibilities

  • Work with the AI Engineers and Computational Biologists to design and build high-scale, opinionated APIs that are data/GPU intensive
  • Prototype and develop interactive workflow UIs for life-science users
  • Iterate on and create data visualization tools that provide users with model results and context to understand them
  • Work with users to develop SDK for technical users
  • Develop and maintain a secure cloud environment for Valthos data and results
  • Build distributed systems that efficiently/predictably process large-scale user data using both CPUs and GPUs
  • Build and maintain the backend infrastructure required for scaling out storage and compute
  • Design and build Valthos storage and search systems. Expect rapidly increasing scale and latency requirements
  • Develop and maintain the systems and services that underpin the productivity of our development teams. Everything from our internal dev environments to managing automated deployments to our production infrastructure.

Qualifications

  • Experience implementing or working on distributed systems and their associated technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc)
  • Working knowledge of the full application stack (Web UX frameworks, API design and development, data modeling, RDBs, etc).
  • Preference for working in a fast-paced, autonomous environment

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsFull stack / API developmentAutonomous fast-paced environment adaptability
Last updated Aug 5, 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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