Valkai
AI & Machine LearningDirect Ashby career site

Member of Technical Staff - AI

Location
New York City, NY · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Mid-level
Listed
23 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • agent architecture design
  • LLM evaluation
  • TypeScript
  • Python

Also useful

  • Next.js
  • Postgres
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • reinforcement learning

Stated benefits & perks

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Pto
  • Parental leave

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.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.

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.
Read the original posting

From Valkai's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 17, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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