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Valthos · 4 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Applied AI Engineer

New York

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

Valthos is an applied biological intelligence company that builds and deploys software and biological AI systems to safeguard humanity. They are seeking a highly skilled AI Engineer to develop and apply state-of-the-art ML methods for assessing biological threats and designing precision biologics.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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

Qualification

Data-centric ML developmentPythonDeep learning librariesCloud computing (AWS)ProbabilityStatisticsBiological data experienceML-centric bioinformaticsOpen-source contributionsTime series modelingReasoning agents