Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

Forward Deployed Engineers deploy Valthos's platform in customer environments. You will embed with government and commercial users to build integrations, custom tooling, and production-quality workflows.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end deployment of Valthos's platform in customer environments
• Embed with government and commercial users to understand missions and workflows
• Build integrations, custom tooling, and configurations for customer data and infrastructure
• Translate computational biology methods into production-quality, user-facing workflows
• Play a key role in go-to-market and business development
• Serve as the technical face of Valthos in customer engagements
• Close the feedback loop between the field and the product team
• Rapidly prototype and ship custom solutions across the full stack

Required qualifications

• 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 and how to balance tradeoffs
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in teams of technical and non-technical individuals
• Demonstrated ability to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision
• Willingness and interest to travel approximately 25%+ of the time to customer sites, including government facilities

Nice to have

• Experience in defense tech, national security, or government contracting environments
• Background in or exposure to computational biology, bioinformatics, or life sciences
• Experience deploying ML/AI systems into operational or production environments
• Prior work in forward deployed, field engineering, solutions engineering, or technical account management roles
• Familiarity with bioinformatics tools and workflows (sequence analysis, protein structure prediction, genomic data pipelines)

Before you apply

• If there is a fit, we will schedule behavioral and technical interviews
• The final step is an onsite in our office, where you will 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.