Principal Software Engineer

About Us

Valo Health is a technology company that is integrating human-centric data and AI-powered technology to accelerate the creation of life-changing drugs for more patients faster. Valo was created with the belief that the drug discovery and development process can and should be faster and less expensive, with a much higher probability of success. We are using models early to fail less often, executing clinical trials to add valuation to the company, and generating fit-for-purpose data to feed back into Valo’s Opal Computational Platform™ as we reinvent drug discovery and development from the ground up. Disease doesn’t wait, so neither can we.

We are a multi-disciplinary team of experts in science, technology, and pharmaceuticals united in our mission to achieve better drugs for patients faster. Valo is committed to hiring diverse talent, prioritizing growth and development, fostering an inclusive environment, and creating opportunities to bring together a group of different experiences, backgrounds, and voices to work together. We achieve the widest-ranging impact when we leverage our broad backgrounds and perspectives to accelerate a new frontier in health. Valo seeks to become the catalyst for the pharmaceutical industry and drive the digital transformation of the industry. Are you ready to join us?

About The Role

Valo is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead our engineering team . You will be a leader in a cross-functional team of software and Machine Learning engineers to rearchitect and scale our state-of-the-art computational chemistry system for both our external partnership and internal drug programs. In addition, you will be working closely with our Data Science and Medicinal Chemistry teams to reinvent the process of discovering new drug candidates. We are taking on hard engineering problems that are found in few other places throughout industry, so we are looking for engineers with the flexibility and ingenuity to match. Our tech stack is a combination of Java, Python, and React, all running on AWS.

Opal is an AI-based platform that leverages human-centric data to enable researchers to discover and develop new drugs. Opal is a fully integrated, AI-powered, cloud-native platform that leverages human-centric data to create new approaches to drug discovery and development enabling researchers to minimize the cost and time associated with discovery, development, and delivery of novel therapeutics. The predictive insights produced by Opal rely on high-quality, high-density human-centric data that is sourced from multiple data sets, processed both remotely and on site through a highly complex process.

What You’ll Do…

• Work with our teams to create a long-term architectural roadmap and execution plans to bring our new platform to life.
• Design and implement key parts of the platform that provide a sound foundation for the team to become self-directing.
• Collaborate with data scientists, life scientists and other stakeholders to drive projects in a highly cross-functional environment
• Help us determine which technologies to invest in, and where existing tools will suffice
• Help hire, train, and mentor new members of the engineering team
• Lead by example to foster a collaborative, agile, outcome-focused, team culture

What You Bring...

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and leadership
• 5+ years of leading or managing cross-functional teams in business-critical projects.
• Experience in creating an effective and inclusive team culture.
• Experience building and operating cloud applications and platforms
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with and influence business and technical teams
• A strong understanding of key AWS technologies.
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent experience

You May Also Bring...

• A background in drug development or another healthcare or biotechnology field
• Experience building data systems that support ML workflows and data lifecycle
• Experience with data warehousing systems.
• Experience working with real world medical or genomic data

Pay Range:

Base Salary: $267,750- $357,500

This range represents the low and high end of the anticipated annual base salary range for the San Francisco based position. The actual annual base salary will depend on numerous factors such as: experience, knowledge, skills, and if the location of the job changes.

More on Valo

Valo Health, LLC (“Valo”) is a tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny built to trans­form the drug dis­cov­ery and devel­op­ment process using human-cen­tric data and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence-dri­ven com­pu­ta­tion. As a dig­i­tal­ly native com­pa­ny, Valo aims to ful­ly inte­grate human-cen­tric data across the entire drug devel­op­ment life cycle into a sin­gle uni­fied archi­tec­ture, there­by accel­er­at­ing the dis­cov­ery and devel­op­ment of life-chang­ing drugs while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly reduc­ing costs, time, and fail­ure rates. The com­pa­ny’s Opal Com­pu­ta­tion­al Plat­form™ is an inte­grat­ed set of capa­bil­i­ties designed to trans­form data into valu­able insights that may accel­er­ate dis­cov­er­ies and enable Valo to advance a robust pipeline of pro­grams across car­dio­vas­cu­lar meta­bol­ic renal, oncol­o­gy, and neu­rode­gen­er­a­tive dis­ease. Found­ed by Flag­ship Pio­neer­ing and head­quar­tered in Boston, MA, Valo also has offices in Lex­ing­ton, MA, San Fran­cis­co, CA, Prince­ton, NJ, and Bran­ford, CT. To learn more, vis­it www​.val​o​health​.com.