Valthos
Member of Technical Staff - Applied AI Engineer - Core Capabilities
New York +1 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 29, 2025
- Location
- New York
San Francisco
About the job
Develops and evaluates machine-learning methods and infrastructure for biological security and precision biologics design.
What you'll do
- Develop, adapt, and post-train biological models; build frameworks to evaluate their performance and understand their capabilities and limitations.
- Create and curate datasets with computational biologists, and collaborate with software engineers on scalable model training and evaluation infrastructure.
- Contribute to the research and development roadmap, communicate results, and work with customers and external collaborators.
What they ask for
- Experience with data-centric development and evaluation of ML models.
- High proficiency in Python and deep learning libraries such as PyTorch.
- Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of probability and statistics.
Nice to have
- Experience with language-model training, reasoning agents, time-series modeling, biological or other noisy heterogeneous data, ML-centric bioinformatics, or structure-based tools such as AlphaFold.
- Experience building data pipelines and training infrastructure, designing and evaluating ML ideas, or contributing to open-source projects.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, AWS, AlphaFold
AI focus
Applies and evaluates AI/ML models for biological threat assessment and precision biologics design, including adapting and post-training biological frontier models.
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