Member of Technical Staff - Design Engineer

The role

A design engineer will own the design and frontend implementation of core product experiences. This role involves translating complex scientific workflows into usable software through prototyping and production-ready interfaces.

What you will do

• Own the design and frontend implementation of core product experiences
• Work with users, founders, engineers, and computational biologists to translate workflows into software
• Design and build interfaces for data exploration, analytical workflows, alerts, and decision support
• Rapidly prototype new product concepts for user research, pilots, demos, and customer discovery
• Establish and evolve the visual language, interaction patterns, design system, and component foundations
• Bring product judgment to information architecture, data visualization, interaction design, and frontend architecture
• Improve product clarity, credibility, and usability across onboarding, navigation, and results interpretation

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated experience owning both the design and frontend implementation of production-quality web applications
• Strong product and design judgment across interaction, information, and visual design
• Ability to translate technical, ambiguous, or unfamiliar workflows into understandable software
• Strong frontend engineering skills, especially with React, TypeScript, modern CSS, and component-based application architecture
• Fluency moving between sketches, Figma, coded prototypes, and production implementation
• Systems thinking across design and engineering
• Ability to learn quickly, work independently, make reasonable tradeoffs, and carry an unclear problem through to a shipped solution
• Strong communication skills regarding design rationale, product tradeoffs, and implementation decisions
• Comfort working on sensitive biological and national-security problems with discretion and good judgment

Nice to have

• Experience designing analytical, scientific, developer, operational, or other data-rich software
• Experience building data visualizations, maps, timelines, graphs, or other visual representations beyond conventional dashboards
• Experience creating or evolving a design system and its corresponding component library
• Experience using AI-assisted design and development tools
• Experience working in an early-stage product environment with evolving requirements and close contact with users
• Background in or exposure to computational biology, bioinformatics, biodefense, or national security

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 that builds and deploys software and biological AI systems to safeguard humanity. The team consists of software engineers from Palantir and applied biological ML engineers from MIT's Broad Institute and DeepMind.