Valthos
Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Engineer
New York · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 112 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactFull-Stack DevelopmentData StructuresCloud PlatformsMachine LearningData EngineeringAccount ManagementBusiness DevelopmentBioinformaticsResearch
About the role
- Translate complex computational biology methods into production-quality, user-facing workflows, packaging research artifacts into tools that are reliable, usable, and maintainable
- Play a key role in go-to-market and business development; work to shape and incept funding for biodefense, source opportunities and contracts, write and submit proposals, etc.
- Serve as the technical face of Valthos in customer engagements, working with scientists, analysts, and senior government stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Embed with government and commercial users to deeply understand their missions, workflows, and pain points across biosurveillance, threat characterization, and countermeasure design
- Build integrations, custom tooling, and configurations that connect Valthos capabilities to customer-specific data sources, infrastructure, and operational needs
- Own the end-to-end deployment of Valthos's platform in customer environments, from scoping requirements through go-live and iteration
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision
- Strong software engineering background with demonstrated ability to build and ship production systems
- Mastery of data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical underpinnings of modern application stacks.
- Deep understanding of how technical decisions impact the user of what you are building and how to balance tradeoffs between technical complexity and speed of iteration.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in teams of technical and non-technical individuals, and comfortable working in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users
- Willingness and interest to travel approximately 25%+ of the time to customer sites, including government facilities
- Experience in defense tech, national security, or government contracting environments
- Background in or exposure to computational biology, bioinformatics, or life sciences
- Experience deploying ML/AI systems into operational or production environments
- Prior work in forward deployed, field engineering, solutions engineering, or technical account management roles
- Familiarity with bioinformatics tools and workflows (sequence analysis, protein structure prediction, genomic data pipelines)
Skills
- Expertise with Python, react, typescript, and other common languages and technologies.
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