# Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI

Valence has built the only first-to-market AI native coaching platform for enterprise, offering personalized, expert, and human-like guidance and support to any leader or employee. We’re not just talking about the future of work - we’re building it now, with the most innovative Fortune 500 companies across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and technology. Learn more about our work with Microsoft: Valence Brings AI Coaching More Deeply Into the Flow of Work with Microsoft 365 Our focus is on the problems that actually decide whether AI changes how organizations operate - the ones with no playbook, no obvious answers, and no guarantee of success. If you want to be part of the small group that defines how AI transforms the future at a global scale, this is your chance. And this isn’t for everyone. We’re not looking for people who want predictability or incremental progress. We only want those who are restless at the edge of what’s possible, who get bored when things feel “done,” and who are driven to redefine what AI can mean for leaders, companies, and the world. Because at Valence, the work worth doing is the kind that redefines work itself. The Role As a founding Appli

- **Id**: 710045
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/valence-staff-software-engineer-applied-ai>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, Toronto, Canada, New York, United States
- **Countries**: US, CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-25T18:13:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-06-25
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T12:24:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 139
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8997
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Parental leave, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Corporate Training, Coaching & Mentoring

## Company

- **Id**: 678659
- **Name**: Valence
- **Domain**: valence.co
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/valence-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 20
- **Ghost share**: 0.1
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 161
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 183000
- **Max usd**: 341000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1500

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Matplotlib** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **NumPy** — Optional: no
- **Pandas** — Optional: no
- **Plotly** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: no
- **Seaborn** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **MLFlow** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes
- **Weights & Biases** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 139

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T04:29:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 48
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.804
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 139
- **Expected fill days**: 161
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:late, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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