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Valar Labs

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Full-stack ML Engineer

Location
Palo Alto, CA
Work arrangement
On-site
Job type
Full-time

About the role

Posted Jan 31, 2022

Valar Labs is a well funded, fast-growing AI diagnostics startup backed by leading VCs revolutionizing oncology and urology through cutting-edge technology and innovation. We are dedicated to improving patient outcomes through the development and deployment of novel AI-driven diagnostics to reduce treatment uncertainty for oncologists and patients. Our team comprises accomplished researchers, and passionate individuals committed to shaping the future of healthcare.


Full-stack ML Engineers at Valar Labs work at the intersection of machine learning research and software engineering. They take a model from an experiment to a product that oncologists use every day, and they own the systems that keep it running.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Run fine-tuning and post-training experiments on our pathology and clinical models, from hypothesis to result

  • Build the data loops that turn clinical and lab data into curated training and evaluation sets

  • Develop survival and outcome models alongside medical oncologists on clinically relevant questions

  • Deploy models into production and own their serving, monitoring and evaluation in a HIPAA environment

  • Ship full stack features across our clinician portal, revenue cycle product and lab operations tooling

  • Build agentic AI workflows that automate clinical and operational work, with the evals that make them trustworthy

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

  • Hands-on experience training and evaluating deep learning models in PyTorch

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and production experience, ideally with TypeScript, React, Node, Docker and AWS

  • Genuine interest in both halves of the role: research depth and shipping products to real users

  • Strong interest in deploying AI in healthcare, and in seeing it change how patients are treated

  • Daily fluency with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code and Codex

  • 1-4 years of experience; exceptional new grads welcome

  • (Optional) Publications in medical AI or machine learning venues

  • (Optional) Experience with pathology, medical imaging or clinical data

Work arrangement: No remote

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Location
Palo Alto, CA
Workplace
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Team
Engineering
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Digital AI diagnostic tests to predict prognosis and therapeutic response in oncology

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