Member of Technical Staff - AI

Valkai

$150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Research-grade engineers with shipping experience
  • Strong understanding of AI systems integration
  • Pragmatic problem-solving approach
  • Ability to create structure from ambiguity
  • Commitment to software quality and maintainability
  • Effective communication for collaboration

Responsibilities

  • Design and construct advanced planning agents
  • Develop evaluation metrics for agent effectiveness
  • Integrate cutting-edge models into life sciences operations
  • Create tools for quick agent development and debugging
  • Build pipeline for delivering agent systems with AI Strategy teams
  • Oversee systems from initial exploration to production
  • Communicate technical insights to improve architecture decisions

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with equity options
  • Comprehensive health insurance for employees and families
  • Generous paid time off policy
  • Paid parental leave available
Full Job Description
THE ROLE

You'll build AI systems that can complete real work end to end. The work sits between applied research and production engineering: understanding model behavior, designing agent architectures, building evaluations, and building off of the latest research.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
  • Research-grade engineers who ship: You can investigate a hard technical question rigorously, make a clear decision, and turn the result into production software.
  • Strong AI systems judgment: You understand that model quality depends on the surrounding system, including tools, context, state, evaluation, and human oversight.
  • Pragmatic problem solvers: You choose approaches based on evidence and tradeoffs, not ideology.
  • High agency: You can take an ambiguous goal, create structure, and move the work forward without waiting for a detailed specification.
  • Owners: You care about the quality, clarity, reliability, and long-term maintainability of what you build.
  • Clear collaborators: You communicate technical ideas simply and work well across engineering, AI Strategy, and product.


WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Design and build long-horizon agents that plan, use tools, maintain state, recover from failure, and interact with data and source systems.
  • Build evaluations for agent decisions and end-to-end task performance.
  • Test and integrate frontier models across complex life sciences workflows.
  • Develop the tooling and infrastructure needed to create, debug, and improve agents quickly.
  • Build the tool chain to enable the delivery of agent systems in partnership with AI Strategy and product.
  • Own systems from early exploration through production operation, including reliability, observability, and ongoing improvement.
  • Share clear technical findings that help the team make better architecture and model decisions.


NICE TO HAVE
  • You have built agents, model evaluation systems, or other production AI applications.
  • You have experience with fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, or applied model research.
  • You have built distributed systems or infrastructure for AI applications.
  • You have worked in a high-growth early-stage company.
  • You are familiar with parts of our stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Python, Postgres, Azure, AWS.


BENEFITS
  • Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
  • Generous PTO policy.
  • Paid parental leave.

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