Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI

The role

You will architect and build enterprise-grade AI and conversational systems to power coaching workflows. You will work at the intersection of generative AI research and product execution to design intelligent systems for enterprise scale.

What you will do

• Architect and build enterprise-grade AI and conversational systems
• Develop, evaluate, and refine LLM-based components
• Integrate and manage diverse sources of structured and unstructured data
• Partner with product, engineering, and design to translate user needs
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on backend services, data pipelines, and frontend interactions
• Build tooling, tests, and automation for model deployment and observability
• Help streamline data and science workflows

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, AI/ML, or data-intensive systems
• Familiarity with language systems (e.g., NLP, conversational interfaces, IR)
• Knowledge of model behavior, context, and evaluation
• Experience with NumPy, scikit-learn, Pandas, PySpark, and SQL
• Experience with visualization tools (e.g., matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, or BI tools)
• Experience developing and deploying services in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong software engineering skills including writing maintainable code and debugging distributed systems
• Ability to explain technical ideas clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Valid travel documents without work authorization restrictions in the US

Nice to have

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, ML, Data Science, or a related field
• Experience with ML lifecycle tools (e.g., MLflow, Weights & Biases)
• Familiarity with Cloud ML services
• Past work building generative AI applications

Benefits

• Competitive salary including base + bonuses
• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision) from day one
• Generous PTO
• Company-wide R&R shutdowns
• Paid parental leave
• Retirement plan support for US and global employees
• Meaningful ownership in a venture-backed company
• Top-up grants based on performance

Before you apply

• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of employment history, education, and other verification checks
• Must have valid travel documents without work authorization restrictions in the US
• Employees may not hold concurrent full-time employment with another organization
• Outside consulting, advisory, freelance, or other professional work must be disclosed and approved in advance

About the company

Valence is an AI-first company pioneering leadership coaching for large enterprises. They build AI-powered personalization to help teams work better together using machine learning and natural language processing.