Member of Technical Staff - Applied AI Engineer - Core Capabilities

The role

This person will develop and apply state-of-the-art ML methods for assessing biological threats and designing precision biologics. They will work on modeling approaches, evaluation frameworks, and collaborating with computational biologists and software engineers.

What you will do

• Contribute to crafting and executing on the Valthos-wide research and development roadmap
• Develop, build, and apply modeling approaches including adapting and post-training biological frontier models
• Develop, build, and apply evaluation frameworks to assess model performance
• Interrogate models to understand biological learnings, capabilities, and limitations
• Collaborate with computational biologists to create and curate datasets
• Collaborate with software engineers to build, deploy, and scale model training and evaluation infrastructure
• Visualize and communicate results within Valthos and externally
• Work with customers and external collaborators to understand their needs
• Embrace learning about areas across Valthos
• Stay up-to-date on state-of-the-art methods at the intersection of AI and biology

Required qualifications

• Experience with data-centric development and evaluation of ML models
• Highly proficient in Python and deep learning libraries (e.g., PyTorch)
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS) and distributed systems
• Strong understanding of probability and statistics

Nice to have

• Proven ability to design, implement, and evaluate new ideas in ML
• Experience with pre- or post-training language models, developing reasoning agents, and/or time series modeling
• Experience working with biological data or other types of noisy and heterogenous datasets
• Experience with ML-centric bioinformatics and structure-based tools (e.g., AlphaFold)
• Experience building data pipelining and training infrastructure
• Contributions to open-source projects

Before you apply

• Two technical interviews will be scheduled if there is a fit
• Final step is an onsite in our office to 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.