Salient
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Financial AI
Debt Collection & Recovery
Financial Software & Embedded Finance
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Products
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Financials
Funding and backers
Hiring now
15
+6 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz
Momentum
16/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Y Combinator 
Andreessen Horowitz Investors in similar startupsfunds that back the companies most like this one
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Salient builds artificial intelligence agents for consumer lending servicing. Its voice and chat systems handle payments and collections…
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How Salient hires
Truth index
C 68/100
Ghost roles
53%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Salient scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 53% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Salient is an American financial technology company founded in 2023 that builds AI voice and automation agents for consumer lenders, especially auto lenders. Its software handles loan servicing calls, collections, payment arrangements, insurance claims, disputes and regulatory audit work, aiming to cut operating costs while keeping borrower conversations compliant. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Salient over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
27
Postings analysed
17
Stack modernity
73/100AI adopter
Languages
JavaScript12%
Python12%
TypeScript12%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js6%
Cloud & platforms
AWS18%
GCP12%
Kubernetes12%
Amazon EC26%
AI & ML
LLM29%
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Full Salient tech stack
27 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$270k
Typical range
$160k – $320k
Open positions
14
10
Jobs
Junior
10%
Middle
10%
Senior
40%
Staff
30%
Architect
10%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $300k | $300k |
| Middle | 1 | $250k | $250k |
| Senior | 4 | $245k | $160k – $280k |
| Staff | 3 | $300k | $235k – $320k |
| Architect | 1 | $250k | $250k |
Highest paying role
Lead Product Manager, AI Agents
$320k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Salient
By role, level and city, against the market · 14 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
65/100
Growing
Open positions
14
3 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
47 days
faster than 29% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
22% ▲
Product
22% ▲
Administrative
22% ▼
Security
11% ▲
Design
11% ▼
Finance
11% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Terraform to stack
Sep 2026
Added Least Privilege to stack
Sep 2026
Added FinOps to stack
Sep 2026
Added SOC 2 to stack
Sep 2026
Added WebRTC to stack
Sep 2026
Added Amazon EC2 to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack
Sep 2026
Added Hallucination to stack
Sep 2026
Added World Models to stack
Sep 2026
Added Voice Agents to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
14 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 64% engineering $263k Avg Salary
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$180k – $280k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
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$200k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
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$200k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
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$200k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
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$200k – $320k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
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$175k – $230k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
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$180k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
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Frontend
React.js
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$150k – $235k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
Function Calling
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LLM
Agentic Workflows
Tool Use
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$200k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
AI Agents
Speech Recognition
LLM
Post-training
Text-to-Speech
Voice Agents
World Models
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$140k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
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$200k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • San Francisco
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DevOps
GCP
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
IAM
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$200k – $260k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
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