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title: 'JevOps Engineer at Valency Systems Inc.'
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# JevOps Engineer at Valency Systems Inc.

- **Company:** Valency Systems Inc.
- **Location:** Berkeley, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-22
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency/b9a5ffb7-9f98-4831-ade9-83ef1792e490

## Job description

## About Valency

Valency is building the infrastructure for AI-accelerated science. Following several minutes of strategic consideration, we’ve identified JevOps as a critical organizational capability. We’re looking for a seasoned JevOps Engineer with 5+ years of production Jev experience to lead this function. You’ll own our Jev lifecycle, establish Jev best practices, and help us determine what those words mean.

## About the role

As our first JevOps hire, you’ll work at the intersection of infrastructure, machine intelligence, and updating your LinkedIn headline. You’ll translate “we’re a Jev-first company now” into a system someone can actually deploy. You may ask follow-up questions after launch.

## What you’ll do

- Own the transition from DevOps to JevOps.
- Build and maintain production decision pipelines powered by Jev.
- Modernize legacy Jev infrastructure built earlier this week.
- Establish our JevOps Center of Excellence.
- Participate in the on-call rotation until Jev is confident enough to participate.

## What you bring

- 5+ years of hands-on JevOps experience in production environments.
- A proven track record of shipping Jev at companies that have not yet heard of it.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, particularly around this job description.
- Excellent written communication. Jev returns structured decisions; someone still has to write the incident report.
- A strong inclination to never user regex when Jev can be used for the job.

## Nice to have

- Experience with JevSecOps, JevRel, or platform Jevgineering.
- Founding membership in the JevOps community. You may found it after applying.
- Experience migrating from a Jev monolith to microJevices, followed by experience migrating back.
- A conference talk titled “JevOps at Scale” with at least one production request behind it.
- Easy acces to a coin (or preferable a pair of dice) for when Jev is down, or we’ve hit our rate limit.

What success looks like First 30 days: Audit our Jev readiness. Replace the framework you wrote ten minutes ago. Migrate the company to Jev. Announce that we’ve always been Jev-native. First 60 days: Ship a self-improving Jev platform. Achieve market leadership in a category you named during onboarding. Deprecate the platform as legacy infrastructure. First 90 days: Establish the global Jev standard. Acquire our nearest competitor. Publish a case study proving JevOps transformed the economy.

How to apply Send us something you’ve built and answer these questions:

- How many years of Jev experience do you have? Please account for time dilation.
- Describe a Jev incident you resolved before Jev existed.
- What would you actually build with Jev, and how would you know it was working?

A quick calibration The experience requirements are a joke. Your time isn’t. This posting is a bit about AI hiring. If the actual engineering work sounds interesting, take a look at our current openings at [Valency](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/valency). No time travel required.

## 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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