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Salient

trysalient.com · B2B · Salient automates collections, servicing, regulatory audit, insurance claims, and dispute resolution for consumer lenders.

14open roles
5new in 30 days
3closed in 30 days
0remote-eligible
acceleratinghiring velocity

What they're building

Voice agent platform (telephony and speech) moderate signal

Today: Taylor handles inbound and outbound collections and servicing across voice, SMS, email, and chat.

Roles: Telephony Infrastructure Engineer · Applied AI Engineer

Requirements mention: SIP · RTP · real-time media · latency budgets · speech modeling · production voice agents

Inference: the voice channel is being built as its own telephony and speech layer. The Telephony Infrastructure Engineer posting describes ownership of the voice platform behind Salient's AI agents.

AI agent product and deployment strong signal

Today: Not chatbots. Salient agents gather data, check rules, update systems, and produce documentation end to end.

Roles: Lead Product Manager, AI Agents · AI Deployment Lead · Founding Product Designer · Full Stack Engineer, Front-End

Requirements mention: LLM-powered products · evals · webhooks · data mapping · AI driven workflows · human-in-the-loop systems

Inference: the company is adding product, deployment and front-end capacity for agents that customers build, manage, monitor and improve.

Marshall extension into integrations, operational record and automated workflows (as stated in the posting) weak signal

Today: Marshall is an automated audit engine — not a call monitor.

Roles: Senior Product Manager, Marshall

Requirements mention: integrations · workflow automation · source-of-truth boundaries · data models · migrations · auditability

No inferred next: weak signal, one role.

Security and compliance operating model weak signal

Today: Salient partners with technology-first lenders to build AI that is reliable, auditable

Roles: Lead Security Engineer

Requirements mention: SOC 2 · PCI · bank-specific security requirements · enterprise security questionnaires

No inferred next: weak signal, one role.

Cloud and infrastructure scale moderate signal

Today: Compliant AI conversations at any volume.

Roles: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer · Infrastructure Engineer

Requirements mention: autoscaling · capacity management · cost optimization · GPU-intensive workloads

No inferred next: moderate signal, kept to what the two postings state.

Where the headcount is going

DepartmentOpen
Engineering9
Business3
Founder's Office1
Applied AI1

Ten of the 15 open roles are in Engineering, with 3 in Business, 1 in Founder's Office and 1 in Applied AI, all at SF Headquarters: most hiring is engineering and product work on the agent platform, plus a small group of business and people hires.

Who they need

Seniority: Senior 10, staff 1, director 1, mid 1, unknown 2 across 15 roles.

Skills named most: AI agents, evals, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, SOC 2, SLOs, incident response, Python, SIP, data pipelines, design system

Locations: All 15 roles are listed at SF Headquarters; none are remote.

How to use this

If you're applying: Apply to the role whose listed requirements you meet, and confirm you can work on-site at SF Headquarters, since no roles are remote.

If you're selling or recruiting: Five roles opened in the last 30 days and two closed. Engineering has 10 of 15 open roles. The postings point to specific needs: voice and SIP infrastructure, AI agent product and deployment (including the AI Deployment Lead), SOC 2, PCI and bank security reviews, and cloud cost attribution across AWS and GCP. The Technical Recruiter and Head of People openings are the entry point for recruiting and people-tools conversations.

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Open roles (14)

TitleDepartmentLocationPosted
Senior Product Manager, MarshallEngineeringSF Headquarters2026-09-28
Telephony Infrastructure EngineerEngineeringSF Headquarters2026-09-26
Lead Security EngineerEngineeringSF Headquarters2026-09-26
Cloud Infrastructure EngineerEngineeringSF Headquarters2026-09-26
Lead Product Manager, Voice AIEngineeringSF Headquarters2026-09-25
Founder's OfficeFounder's OfficeSF Headquarters2026-08-06
Product DesignerEngineeringSF Headquarters2026-08-03
AI Deployment LeadBusinessSF Headquarters2026-07-10
Technical Recruiter BusinessSF Headquarters2026-05-27
Applied AI EngineerApplied AISF Headquarters2026-05-20
Software Engineer, ProductEngineeringSF Headquarters2026-05-12
Infrastructure EngineerEngineeringSF Headquarters2026-03-19
Head of PeopleBusinessSF Headquarters2026-02-03
Sr Software Engineer, ProductEngineeringSF Headquarters2025-08-05