Member of Technical Staff

Valkai

$120K — $180K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
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 be responsible for revolutionizing how life sciences organizations interact with agents. You will design novel experiences that will become a daily driver of workflows. You'll work with frontier models and orchestrate new interfaces to help people leverage them.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
  • Thoughtful problem solvers: You approach problems holistically, starting with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. You think critically and consider both the business and technical tradeoffs of your solutions.
  • Not ideological about technology: To you, technologies are about tradeoffs. You may be opinionated, but you're not ideological. You can learn new technologies and are receptive to new ideas.
  • Organized and self-sufficient: You are comfortable managing yourself, navigating ambiguity, and finding ways to create impact.
  • Owner of your mission: You are an owner of the products that you create, meaning you take pride in the quality, maintenance, and understandability of the products you build and the code you write.
  • Grit: You will run through walls to achieve the goal.


WHAT YOU'LL DO:
  • Retrieval over peta-byte scale documents with varying formats (graphs, tables, diagrams, etc)
  • Organizational-level interfaces to collaborate with AI & mesh into their everyday workflows
  • 1000-step planning agents with human in the loop architecture
  • Collaborate directly with enterprise customers to design product experiences that help automate common workflows
  • Evaluating LLMs across a diversity of life science specific tasks
  • Government-level security for some of the world's most sensitive data
  • Internet-scale data collection


NICE TO HAVE'S:
  • You have experience working in a high growth early stage startup.
  • You have experience building agents, or fine-tuning LLMs to accomplish complex tasks.
  • You have experience in building large scale content indexing systems.
  • You've built apps or are familiar with our stack - NextJS, React, Typescript, Python, Postgres, Azure, Vespa, Langgraph, Celery, Azure.


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


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