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# Member of Technical Staff - Platform at Valkai

- **Company:** Valkai
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$350k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valkai/89eb79dd-9e4a-499e-a380-c914048851f6

## Job description

## THE ROLE

You'll build the secure, reliable systems beneath Valkai's agents and products. The scope spans compute, storage, deployment, data pipelines, indexing, and retrieval. You will make these systems observable and dependable across cloud and self-hosted environments while helping the engineering team ship quickly.

## WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

- Strong systems fundamentals: You reason clearly about reliability, performance, security, data consistency, and failure modes.
- Production ownership: You are comfortable operating the systems you build and improving them based on real incidents and usage.
- Pragmatic engineering judgment: You can balance immediate product needs with the foundations required for long-term scale.
- High agency: You can find the highest-leverage infrastructure problem, create a plan, and drive it to completion.
- Security-minded thinking: You treat sensitive data, access controls, isolation, and auditability as core design constraints.
- Clear collaborators: You make infrastructure understandable and work closely with product and AI engineers.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Build and operate reliable infrastructure across sandboxes, clusters, databases, caches, vector databases, and object storage.
- Improve deployment and upgrade systems for cloud and self-hosted environments.
- Build observability, incident response, performance, and capacity systems for production services.
- Improve continuous integration, delivery, and developer workflows.
- Build integrations, indexing pipelines, and retrieval infrastructure that make enterprise knowledge useful to agents.
- Strengthen platform security through isolation, access controls, hardening, testing, and compliance work.
- Own systems from architecture and implementation through production operation and long-term improvement.

## NICE TO HAVE

- You have built and operated cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at meaningful scale.
- You have experience with self-hosted enterprise deployments, security programs, or regulated data.
- You have worked on search, retrieval, data integration, or large-scale indexing systems.
- You have led production incidents and made systems more resilient afterward.
- 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.

At Valkai, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

## About Valkai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Valkai provides an AI operating system for life sciences, using agent systems to accelerate drug discovery, clinical trials, and regulatory workflows across pharma, biotech, and medical device companies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2024 ([builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/valkai))
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial intelligence / Life sciences software
- **Target customers**: B2B – large pharmaceutical companies, biotech firms, and medical device organizations
- **Mission**: “Bringing life back to life sciences” – enabling experts to spend less time on coordination and more time advancing science ([valkai.com](https://www.valkai.com/))

## Products & Services
- **Agent Systems for Life Sciences**: A platform that connects internal data, industry sources, and AI agents into a single coordinated layer to remove blockers in the pipeline. Covers quality management (ISO 13485, FDA 21 CFR Part 820), regulatory pathway guidance, sales intelligence, and workflow automation. ([valkai.com](https://www.valkai.com/), [getvalkai.com](http://www.getvalkai.com/))
- **Custom Software Solutions**: Modular, customizable tools that integrate into company-specific workflows. ([getvalkai.com](http://www.getvalkai.com/))
- **Enterprise Security & Compliance**: Isolated data storage, client data not used for training, third-party auditing, and GxP compliance. ([valkai.com](https://www.valkai.com/), [getvalkai.com](http://www.getvalkai.com/))

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over 20,000 users across top pharma companies (per [valkai.com](https://www.valkai.com/))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2024, already trusted by “leading life science organizations” including a top 5 medical device company and a leading biotech; aggressively hiring for multiple roles (AI Strategy, Talent, Product Designer).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain expertise**: Built by a team with decades of experience across life sciences, regulation, and AI innovation. ([valkai.com](https://www.valkai.com/))
- **Enterprise-grade security**: Designed by security experts with over a decade of experience in regulated environments; meets highest standards for data privacy and compliance.
- **Full pipeline coverage**: Integrates quality, regulatory, sales, and research workflows in a single platform, differentiating from point solutions.

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate adoption of agent systems within major life sciences organizations.
- Expand platform capabilities and modular tools to cover more workflow pain points.
- Grow the team across engineering, product, and customer-facing roles.

## Why Work Here
- **Work model**: Hybrid / In-office (New York City). The company describes a “Hybrid Workspace” where employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work. ([builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/valkai))
- **Culture**: Small, agile team (currently 1 employee listed, likely growing fast) working on a mission-driven problem – making medicine more abundant.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on AI innovation, security, and direct collaboration with life sciences experts. The team includes veterans from “the world’s premier AI labs and life sciences companies.” ([valkai.com](https://www.valkai.com/))

## Sources
1. [valkai.com](https://www.valkai.com/) – Company overview, products, security, mission, and team.
2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/valkai) – Year founded, location, work model, employee count, and job listings.
3. [builtin.com/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/valkai/jobs) – Job description details and company tags.
4. [getvalkai.com](http://www.getvalkai.com/) – Product features, enterprise security, and industry use cases.
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/valkai](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valkai) – Careers page listing open roles.

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