Member of Technical Staff - Generalist

Valkai

• $130K — $155K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in technology or product development.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a holistic approach.
  • Flexible and open to learning new technologies without ideological constraints.
  • Proven ability to work independently and manage projects with minimal oversight.
  • Demonstrated ownership mentality towards product quality and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Design innovative interfaces to enhance interactions for life sciences organizations.
  • Conduct retrieval and management of large-scale document formats and data.
  • Implement advanced planning agents with human-in-the-loop designs.
  • Collaborate with enterprise clients to automate workflows with AI solutions.
  • Evaluate and assess language models for life science applications.
  • Ensure government-level security protocols for sensitive data handling.
  • Lead efforts in large-scale data collection for product improvement.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package with meaningful equity options.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families.
  • Generous paid time off policy to promote work-life balance.
  • Paid parental leave to support family growth.
Full Job Description
THE ROLE

You'll take important technical problems from ambiguity to production across AI, product, and platform. This role is for an engineer with broad range who can learn unfamiliar systems quickly, identify the real constraint, and build the right solution at the right level of the stack.

RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Own high-priority technical projects from problem definition through production.
  • Work across AI systems, backend services, product experiences, data, and infrastructure as the problem requires.
  • Prototype quickly, test the riskiest assumptions, and turn successful approaches into maintainable systems.
  • Make practical architecture decisions based on user needs, technical constraints, and company priorities.
  • Partner with AI Strategy and product to understand workflows and shape the solution, not just implement a specification.
  • Create clear ownership, documentation, and operating plans when projects transition to a long-term team.
  • Improve engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, testing, and hands-on product use.


REQUIREMENTS
  • Broad technical range: You can work across systems and product layers and are comfortable entering unfamiliar areas.
  • Research-grade engineers who ship: You investigate hard problems carefully, form clear opinions, and turn them into working software.
  • Strong judgment: You know when to prototype, when to invest in foundations, and when a simpler approach is better.
  • High agency: You create structure in ambiguous situations and move from problem framing to execution without waiting for a detailed plan.
  • Owners: You take responsibility for outcomes, not just assigned tasks, and leave systems clearer than you found them.
  • Clear collaborators: You write and communicate well, seek context, and help teams make decisions.


NICE TO HAVE
  • You have shipped zero-to-one technical products in highly ambiguous environments.
  • You have worked across multiple parts of a modern application stack.
  • You have experience with agents, AI evaluation systems, search, or distributed systems.
  • 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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