Valthos
Member of Technical Staff - Applied AI Engineer
10mo ago
USALeadmachine learningbiological modelingdata analysis
Develop and apply state-of-the-art machine learning methods for assessing biological threats and designing precision biologics.
Responsibilities
- 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—for tasks in biological security and the design of precision biologics
- Develop, build, and apply evaluation frameworks to rigorously assess model performance on key tasks
- Interrogate models to understand their biological learnings, capabilities, and limitations
- Collaborate closely with computational biologists to understand the signal and artifacts inherent in biological data, and to create and curate datasets
- Collaborate closely 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 and be an effective representative of Valthos
- Embrace learning about areas—technical and non-technical—across Valthos
- Stay up-to-date on the state-of-the-art methods at the intersection of AI and biology
Requirements
- 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
- 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.
Other
- 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 a highly skilled, data-centric AI Engineer to develop and apply state-of-the-art ML methods for assessing and responding to biological threats and for rapidly designing precision biologics.