Member Of Technical Staff
US$140,000 – US$185,000 / yr base salary
Posted 27 Jun 2026
Advertised as “Member of Technical Staff - Platform”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$140,000 – US$185,000 / yr |
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About the Role
We are looking for exceptional engineers to join our team.
You, alongside our team, will own the platform that runs our benchmarks. This spans everything needed to evaluate LLMs at scale: Python libraries, a web platform, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and tooling. You'll work across the stack—whatever needs to be built to run benchmarks reliably and efficiently.
At Vals, we believe in autonomy. You will be given a high degree of independence to make decisions on tech stacks, system architecture, and code structure. You will also provide guidance to others on the team, both through informal feedback and formal processes like architecture and code reviews.
Our platform serves startups, enterprises, and research labs measuring model performance. We work with all the major foundation model labs, and some of the largest financial institutions and hospital systems in the world. Our work has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and Bloomberg.
We are building the standard for evaluating the ability of LLMs to perform real-world tasks. You will contribute directly to the infrastructure that makes this possible.
What You'll Do
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Build distributed systems to run evaluations across multiple models, benchmarks, and machines at scale
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Deploy cloud infrastructure using IAC, including deployment pipelines, servers, logging, monitoring, etc.
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Contribute to the internal and external libraries we maintain, including our public model library
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Develop full-stack features for our platform using React/TypeScript on the frontend and Python/Django on the backend
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Perform code and architecture reviews for other members of the team
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Help establish engineering best practices across the organization
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Collaborate closely with the research team to ensure our infrastructure meets their needs
Requirements
Technical
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Strong engineering fundamentals: You can build and ship quickly with high quality. You should have a track record of building things of significant scope (within jobs, side projects, open source, etc.)
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Python expertise: Significant experience in Python, especially in a professional setting.
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System Design Experience: You should be familiar with common concepts like VMs, containerization, load balancers, databases, etc. and when to use them appropriately.