Software Engineer

Valar Labs; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Valar Labs is seeking a Software Engineer to design and deploy agentic AI pipelines and production environments for oncology and urology.

You will work with Docker, AWS, Claude Code, and Codex to ship full stack features in a HIPAA-compliant setting and build clinician-facing portals used daily by care teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent.
• Experience with Docker, AWS and production deployments.
• 2+ years of software engineering experience; exceptional new grads welcome.
• Optional: Experience building LLM powered products or working in healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Build agentic AI pipelines that automate clinical and operational workflows.
• Design the evals and guardrails that make agent driven work trustworthy in a clinical setting.
• Build our clinician facing portal used daily by oncologists, pathologists and care teams.
• Develop and optimize production environments running AI models to serve thousands of patients.
• Ship full stack features in a fast-paced daily cadence from prototype to production in a HIPAA environment.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud deployment

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Docker

AWS

Claude Code

Codex

Job description

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.

Software Engineers at Valar Labs build and run the products that put clinical grade AI in front of oncologists worldwide, and the agentic systems behind them.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build agentic AI pipelines that automate clinical and operational workflows
• Design the evals and guardrails that make agent driven work trustworthy in a clinical setting
• Build our clinician facing portal used daily by oncologists, pathologists and care teams
• Develop and optimize production environments running AI models to serve thousands of patients
• Ship full stack features in a fast-paced daily cadence from prototype to production in a HIPAA environment

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with Docker, AWS and production deployments
• Daily fluency with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code and Codex, and judgment about where they help
• 2+ years of software engineering experience; exceptional new grads welcome
• (Optional) Experience building LLM powered products or working in healthcare