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# Community Manager at Valency Systems Inc.

- **Company:** Valency Systems Inc.
- **Location:** Berkeley, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/4a49ad06-8855-43af-a9f3-8ba4b8818f5d

## Job description

## About Valency

Valency Systems is a small, dynamic team of engineers, scientists, and researchers building the global hub for the agentic research era.

We're based in Berkeley, California, and we're building something that matters. If you care about open science, advancing research at the speed of thought, and using AI to accelerate discovery, we'd love to talk.

Our team is hybrid. We come together in person 3 days a week, with the option for 2 days of remote work.

## The Role

Researchers can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. They trust tools their peers use, papers their peers share, and people who clearly understand the science. That is the community we need to earn.

Valency Hub just opened as a public alpha: a neutral place to publish, fork, and discuss AI-assisted research, grounded in the real scientific record. MCP Bond connects the AI systems researchers already use to tens of millions of papers and preprints. The products are live. Now we need the person who brings scientists in, makes them feel at home, and gives them reasons to come back.

As our first Community Manager, you will own Valency's day-to-day relationship with the research community: across social media, Discord, the Hub itself, and in person. You will spot the interesting paper, the researcher worth spotlighting, and the question that keeps coming up, and turn each into a conversation. You will also be the team's ear, bringing back what researchers actually say so it shapes what we build.

This role is open to recent graduates. We care more about judgment, writing, and genuine passion for science than years of experience. There is no existing playbook here; you will help write it.

## What You'll Do

Run our social presence

- Own Valency's channels on Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, and YouTube, writing for each platform's norms rather than cross-posting the same thing everywhere
- Turn papers, preprints, and discussions on Hub into posts and threads that researchers want to share: accurate, specific, and free of hype
- Join the conversations scientists are already having online, especially around AI in research, open science, preprints, and peer review

Build and care for the community

- Contribute to our Discord: welcome newcomers, answer questions, moderate fairly, and route bugs and feature requests to the right teammate
- Recruit researchers to publish, discover, and discuss on Valency Hub, and help new research groups get started
- Spotlight the people doing interesting work: researcher profiles, paper highlights, and "how I use it" stories
- Help set and uphold community norms, including how AI-assisted work and AI reviewers are discussed respectfully and honestly

Bring people together

- Plan and host virtual events: office hours, AMAs with researchers, demos, and journal-club style discussions
- Organize in-person meetups in Berkeley and across Bay Area campuses, and help represent Valency at scientific conferences and hackathons

Close the loop

- Contribute to our newsletter, blog, and researcher-friendly explainers of Hub and MCP Bond
- Share a short weekly read-out with the team: what researchers are saying, asking, and struggling with
- Track what is working (growth, engagement, and which posts and events drive sign-ups) and use it to decide what to do next

What Success Looks Like In your first 6 to 12 months, you will help Valency begin tracking and materially grow:

- Active researchers in our Discord and on Valency Hub, week over week
- Researchers publishing and discussing papers on Hub, across a growing range of fields
- A consistent posting rhythm on each channel that researchers engage with and share
- A regular cadence of virtual events, plus at least one in-person gathering each quarter
- A small group of researcher champions who post about Valency on their own
- Clear attribution from community activity to sign-ups and usage, so we know what is working

## Who You Are

- You have 0 to 3 years of experience. Recent graduates are very welcome.
- You write clearly and quickly. You can turn a paper abstract into a post a postdoc would actually share.
- You are fluent in social media and know that Bluesky, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Discord each have their own culture.
- You are genuinely curious about science and can follow a technical conversation without needing every term explained.
- You already use AI tools in your work or studies, and you are honest about where they fall short.
- You are organized enough to run an event end to end, and warm enough that people want to come back.
- You see the gap and close it without waiting to be asked.

Bonus points

- A degree or research experience in any science: you have read papers, worked in a lab, or presented a poster
- An existing presence or following in a scientific community online
- Experience running a club, journal club, student organization, hackathon, or conference
- Familiarity with open science, preprint servers (arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv), and how peer review works
- Short-form video editing, or design skills with tools like Figma or Canva
- Experience moderating a Discord or similar online community

## Why Join Us

- You will be the first voice many researchers hear from Valency, and you will shape how a new kind of research platform shows up in the world
- You will work directly with founders, engineers, and scientists, and with researchers from universities and national labs
- A conference and learning budget, and a team that publishes and shares openly by default
- A small, high-trust team where your decisions have outsized impact

## Compensation, Benefits & Equity

We offer a competitive salary, benefits, and equity package, including a 401(k) with matching.

Work Authorization Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

## About Valency Systems Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Valency Systems Inc. builds a people-centered, AI-accelerated research platform that connects frontier LLMs to tens of millions of scientific papers and preprints, enabling grounded Q&A and discovery.
- **Entity Type**: Private, venture-backed (stage not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Berkeley, California, USA (implied by founder affiliations and job postings)
- **Founded**: Not publicly disclosed (the company announced its public launch in mid-2026 via a "Hello World" blog post)
- **Founders**: Josh Bloom (CEO, Co-founder) and Ryan Anderson (COO, Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered scientific research infrastructure, SaaS/API for research discovery
- **Target customers**: Researchers in academia, national laboratories, government agencies, and industry R&D teams; also applicable to policymakers, investors, and science journalists
- **Mission or purpose**: To create a home for people-centered, AI-accelerated research—keeping AI grounded in the real scientific record, not hallucinations

## Products & Services
- **[Valency Bond](https://valency.io)**: A model context protocol (MCP) service that gives LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) structured access to an embeddings-indexed corpus of tens of millions of research papers and preprints (coverage from 1965 to present, updated within hours of publication). Includes semantic search, citation graph tools, and 37+ MCP tools for targeted queries, reading list generation, and collaboration discovery.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: Not disclosed, but confirmed as "backed by venture capital"
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named publicly; early users include researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and other national labs, academia, and industry
- **Growth Signals**: The company is actively hiring (multiple roles posted), has a public waitlist for Valency Bond, and has received early positive testimonials from senior scientists at LBNL. The platform indexes tens of millions of papers and grows daily.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Grounded in real research**: Valency Bond directly connects LLMs to the actual scientific record, eliminating hallucinations from outdated or fabricated citations.
- **Freshness**: Papers are indexed within hours of publication, not months or years—critical for fast-moving fields.
- **Token-efficient & fast**: Designed for low latency and high throughput, making it practical for LLM agents and interactive use.
- **Partnership with domain experts**: Built in collaboration with researchers at leading national laboratories, ensuring the tool meets real scientific workflows.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding the Valency Bond platform, onboarding more institutional and individual users, and building out the team. The company is focused on enabling AI-accelerated discovery while keeping humans in the loop ("people-centered").
- **Direction for growth**: Likely targeting deeper integrations with LLMs, expanding coverage to more preprint servers and journals, and serving enterprise/government clients who need secure, on-premises versions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: A science-first, AI-forward startup co-founded by a UC Berkeley professor (astronomy/AI) and a former IBM CTO. Emphasis on human-centered design and rigorous grounding in research.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Not explicitly stated, but one job posting is for "AMER" (Americas) time zone and the company is based in Berkeley, suggesting a remote-friendly or hybrid model.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Early-stage environment with direct impact on product direction; opportunity to work at the intersection of AI, scientific infrastructure, and user experience. The team is described as "wonderful and talented" and is actively growing.

## Sources
1. [valency.io](https://valency.io/)
2. [blog.valency.io/posts/hello-world/](https://blog.valency.io/posts/hello-world/)
3. [linkedin.com/posts/ryananderson_...](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ryananderson_big-news-ive-co-founded-a-startup-called-activity-7457858498870132736-F6Ce)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency)

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