Member of Technical Staff - Generalist

Valkai

• $130K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in technology or life sciences environments
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a holistic approach
  • Ability to work independently and manage uncertainty
  • Ownership mentality regarding product quality and code
  • Adaptability to learn new technologies without being ideological

Responsibilities

  • Design innovative user experiences for life sciences workflows
  • Develop organizational interfaces that integrate AI into daily tasks
  • Implement 1000-step planning agents with a human in the loop
  • Work collaboratively with enterprise clients to enhance product usability
  • Evaluate large language models (LLMs) for life science applications
  • Manage data retrieval from extensive and variable document formats
  • Ensure top-tier security for sensitive data management

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with meaningful equity options
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and dependents
  • Generous paid time off (PTO) policy
  • Paid parental leave to support work-life balance
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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