Valon
Finance
ValonExternshipProgram
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“Valon Externship Program at Valon. Skills: AI tooling, Building, Coding agents. Spin up on AI tooling. Pick a project”
What You'll Achieve.
Demo what you built on Friday; Demo is the only deliverable
Industry & Context.
In-person, Dates are fixed, Parent or guardian consent
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
You ship, You're already AI-native, You can talk about your work, You bring your own ideas, You're 16–21 at the time of the program
What You'll Do.
Spin up on AI tooling
Build alongside engineers
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Build alongside the engineers; Pair, ask anything
Communication Scope
You can talk about your work
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE COMPANY Valon is building the AI-native operating system for regulated finance, starting with mortgage servicing. We're a Series C company backed by a16z, transforming industries that others have written off as too complex to innovate. Rather than build on top of broken legacy systems, we took a different approach: we built and operate our own mortgage servicing business managing $110+ billion in loans. This wasn't the end goal, it was how we deeply understood the complexity needed to build software that actually works in regulated industries. The results speak for themselves. We've transformed mortgage servicing from a 0% margin business into 60%+ margins while dramatically improving customer experience. Major enterprise contracts are now deploying across the industry. ValonOS is our unified platform that makes every process structured and programmable and it is perfectly positioned for the AI era. When everything flows through one system with rich data, AI agents don't just automate tasks, they continuously improve entire operations. Mortgage servicing is just the beginning of our vision to transform regulated industries and beyond. The Valon Externship is a three-day, in-person program in our NYC office for a small group of builders aged 16–21 — high schoolers, college students, gap-year kids, self-taught, dropouts. The kind of people who'd be coding tonight regardless of whether anyone was watching. You won't be shadowing from across the room. You'll sit next to the engineers building Valon's internal AI tooling — agents, evals, custom CLIs, MCP servers, the whole stack — use the same tools they use every day, pick a project you can push hard on, and demo what you built on Friday. This isn't a tour, a panel, or a structured curriculum. It's three days of real building with the people who built the tools. The only deliverable is a demo. Location: New York, NY (in-person, all three days). WHAT YOU'LL DO - Spin up on the same AI tooling Valon engineers sh
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