Member of Technical Staff - Software Engineer

Job description

# Software Engineer *Valthos Inc.* Valthos is an applied biological intelligence company. We build and deploy software and biological AI systems to safeguard humanity. The same AI architectures that enable self-driving cars, land rockets with precision, and deliver expert-level reasoning are beginning to be deployed in biological design. To stay ahead, we must advance our arsenal of tools to capture and design against real-time sensitivities in nature’s evolving mutational landscape. We are a group of mission-driven software engineers from Palantir and applied biological ML engineers from MIT’s Broad Institute and DeepMind making the latest advances in computational biology accessible in the real-world for federal and commercial use. We are seeking **software engineers** to design and implement a platform that will allow Valthos to bring frontier methods to the end users, scientific and technical. Your day-to-day experience will range from implementing complex distributed systems, managing container-based scalable infrastructure, building REST APIs, integrating open source solutions, understanding the needs of our users and adapting our software to suit. You'll collaborate closely with technical and non-technical counterparts to understand our developers' and customers' problems and build software and infrastructure to tackle them. ## The Role - Work with the 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 - Iterate on and create data visualization tools that provide users with model results and context to understand them - 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 efficiently/predictably process large-scale user data using both CPUs and GPUs - Build and maintain the backend infrastructure required for scaling out storage and compute - Design and build Valthos storage and search systems. Expect rapidly increasing scale and latency requirements. - Develop and maintain the systems and services that underpin the productivity of our development teams. Everything from our internal dev environments to managing automated deployments to our production infrastructure. ## Qualifications (required) - 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 ## Qualifications (preferred) - 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 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.