Member of Technical Staff - Software Engineer

About the role

Valthos is an applied biological intelligence company focusing on developing and deploying software and biological AI systems to safeguard humanity. Our AI architectures are advancing in fields like self-driving cars and rocket landings, and now we're applying these to biological design.

Responsibilities

• Work with 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.
• Create and iterate on data visualization tools to provide users with model results and context.
• Develop and maintain a secure cloud environment for Valthos data and results.
• Build distributed systems that efficiently process large-scale user data using both CPUs and GPUs.
• Design and build Valthos storage and search systems.
• Develop and maintain the systems and services that support our development teams, including internal dev environments, automated deployments, and 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.
• Experience working with AWS or other IaaS providers (preferred).
• Experience working with large scale data and its associated technologies (parquet, pandas, etc) (preferred).
• Experience building data pipelines and asynchronous data processing (preferred).
• Experience working with biological data (sequences) and bioinformatics tools (preferred).
• Contributions to open-source projects (preferred).