Valthos
Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Engineer
New York +1 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 1, 2026
- Location
- New York
San Francisco
About the job
Deploys Valthos’s platform alongside government and commercial customers, building tailored software and workflows for biosecurity and biodefense missions.
What you'll do
- Lead customer deployments from requirements scoping through launch and iteration, integrating the platform with customer data and infrastructure.
- Build and ship production-quality custom tools and user workflows, translating computational biology methods into usable applications.
- Work with customers and internal teams to identify needs, shape product requirements, and support business development and proposals.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering background and demonstrated ability to build and ship production systems.
- Expertise with Python, react, typescript, and other common languages and technologies.
- Mastery of data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and modern application stacks.
- Ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams, learn and work independently, and travel approximately 25%+ to customer sites, including government facilities.
Nice to have
- Experience in defense tech, national security, government contracting, computational biology, bioinformatics, or life sciences.
- Experience deploying ML/AI systems into operational or production environments, or in forward deployed, field engineering, solutions engineering, or technical account management roles.
Tools
Python, react, typescript
AI focus
Deploy and operationalize biological AI and ML systems; develop tools and workflows for biosurveillance, threat characterization, and countermeasure design.
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