Valon Externship Program

About the Company

Valon is building the AI-native operating system for regulated finance starting with mortgage servicing.

Were 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 wasnt 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. Weve 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 dont just automate tasks they continuously improve entire operations. Mortgage servicing is just the beginning of our vision to transform regulated industries and beyond.

About the Program

The Valon Externship is a three-day in-person program in our NYC office for a small group of builders high schoolers college students gap-year kids self-taught dropouts. The kind of people whod be coding tonight regardless of whether anyone was watching.

You wont be shadowing from across the room. Youll sit next to the engineers building Valons 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 isnt a tour a panel or a structured curriculum. Its 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 Youll Do

• Spin up on the same AI tooling Valon engineers ship with Claude Code Codex Cursor MCP servers and Valons internal tooling on Day 1.

• Pick a project that matters to you. An agentic workflow an eval harness an internal tool a developer-experience problem your call.

• Build alongside the engineers who built Valons AI tooling stack. Pair ask anything watch how they actually work.

• Demo what you built to the team on Day 3.

• Stay close after the program ends strong demos lead to follow-up conversations with Valon engineering and recruiting.

Ideal Background

• You ship. Projects repos side businesses research weird experiments anything that shows you can take an idea from zero to something real.

• Youre already AI-native. Youre using coding agents and modern AI tooling daily not for the first time. You have opinions about which ones are actually good.

• You can talk about your work. You can explain what you built what broke and what you learned. Without slides.

• You bring your own ideas. You have a list of things youd build if you had the time the tokens and the right people next to you. Were handing you all three.

You do not need an internship pedigree a CS degree or any specific coursework. You need proof you make things.

The Basics

• Paid stipend. Externs are paid for the three days. The amount is shared with shortlisted applicants.

• Travel and housing. Not covered by default. If getting to NYC is a blocker tell us in your application and well see what we can do.

• Under 18. Parent or guardian consent is part of the application process.

• In-person. All three days are at Valons NYC office. There is no remote option for this program.

• Dates are fixed. July. The program runs as a cohort so partial attendance isnt possible.

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Valon is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race color sex religion sexual orientation national origin disability genetic information pregnancy or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal state or local laws. Valon makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications merit and business needs at the time.

Required Experience:

Intern