Member of Technical Staff - Software Engineer

The role

Software engineers will design and implement a platform to bring frontier methods to scientific and technical end users. This includes implementing complex distributed systems, managing container-based scalable infrastructure, and building REST APIs.

What you will do

• Work with AI Engineers and Computational Biologists to design and build high-scale, opinionated APIs
• Prototype and develop interactive workflow UIs for life-science users
• Iterate on and create data visualization tools
• 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 process large-scale user data using CPUs and GPUs
• Build and maintain the backend infrastructure for scaling storage and compute
• Design and build Valthos storage and search systems
• Develop and maintain systems and services that underpin development team productivity

Required 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)

Nice to have

• Experience working with AWS or other IaaS providers
• Experience working with large scale data and it’s associated technologies (parquet, pandas, etc)
• Experience building data pipelines and asynchronous data processing
• Experience working with biological data (sequences) and bioinformatics tools
• Contributions to open-source projects
• Preference for working in a fast-paced, autonomous environment

Before you apply

• If there is a fit, we’ll schedule two technical interviews
• The final step is an onsite in our office, where you’ll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and work with the wider team

About the company

Valthos is an applied biological intelligence company. They build and deploy software and biological AI systems to safeguard humanity.