# Head of Engineering

About us We are Valis - a company building an institutional AI operating layer for mid-market companies: shared company memory, workflow mining and agentic automation. Why this role exists We are hiring a CTO-level engineering leader. We need a strong person, able to own a major part of the technology from architecture through production, build their own team, and speak with clients at C-suite level. What you will do Platform architecture and engineering - Own the architecture of the org brain and personal brain: data ingestion, knowledge storage, retrieval, agents, and integrations with Claude and other LLMs. - Write code yourself where it matters most. This is a hands-on role, not only a management one. - Design access control so each user sees only data from their own area. You will also own data retention and deletion, GDPR compliance, and multi-tenancy. - Build MCP servers and connectors to company systems (Slack, Google Workspace, Asana, HRIS, DWH, ERP), and bring them to the point where clients can use them self-service. Deployments - Lead complex technical conversations - Own the technical side of deployments - Turn what works for one client into a product, so the same cust

- **Id**: 3748195
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/valis-head-of-engineering>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: DE, FR, GB, CY, NL, PT
- **Hiring countries total**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-22T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T09:10:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 21
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3520
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Software

## Company

- **Id**: 4461486
- **Name**: Valis
- **Domain**: valis.so
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/valis-5>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Redshift** — Optional: no
- **Asana** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cloudflare** — Optional: no
- **DuckDB** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GDPR** — Optional: no
- **Google Workspace** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Slack** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 21

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: country
- **France** — Iso: FR; Kind: country
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country
- **Cyprus** — Iso: CY; Kind: country
- **Netherlands** — Iso: NL; Kind: country
- **Portugal** — Iso: PT; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T14:16:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 81
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 21
- **Expected fill days**: 39
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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