--- title: 'Software Engineer - Applied AI at Niural' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-applied-ai-niural-niural-nepal-z31yx4jtrpah' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # Software Engineer - Applied AI at Niural - **Company:** Niural - **Location:** Niural Nepal - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-31 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/niural/4ca76614-7865-43b7-a9dc-8f5aa4c63771 ## Job description ## About Niural Niural is the AI-native platform that unifies payroll, compliance, HR, and financial operations into a single platform, enabling companies to hire, pay, and manage teams across 150+ countries with speed, accuracy, and intelligence. Backed by Marathon, M13, and Inspired Capital, Niural is redefining the future of work and intelligent finance. Why Niural? If you are a person who was drawn into tech through the promise of creating cutting-edge tools for a more exciting future, but find yourself jaded with the fact that the world's smartest engineers, and the most capable models ever built, are spending their lives optimizing how frequently we click on ads, this is your opportunity to change that. We’re building a future that changes the way companies participate in the new era of the Internet and create truly global products as they participate in a digital economy. If you want to work with an aggressively ambitious team, put AI agents in charge of work that has never been automated before, and build the system of record companies used to hire, pay, and manage people across borders, moving billions of dollars in the process, help us build the future of work and intelligent finance. ## About the Job We are hiring a Software Engineer, Applied AI to build the intelligence layer of the Niural platform. You will work on EMMA, our AI orchestration system, shipping agent workflows, retrieval pipelines, and document understanding systems that operate directly on payroll, tax, and compliance data. This is not a research role, and it is not a chatbot bolted onto a SaaS product. The systems you build take real actions on money movement and statutory filings, where “usually right” is a defect. You should have strong Python skills and hands-on production experience with LLM systems: retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, structured output, and evaluation. We’re looking for someone who treats model behavior as an engineering problem, measures before shipping, and wants to own features end to end. ## Responsibilities - Design, build, and ship production LLM features including agent workflows, tool and function calling, MCP servers, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. - Build retrieval systems over statutory guidance, tax authority publications, contracts, and employee handbooks, owning chunking strategy, embedding selection, hybrid search, reranking, and retrieval quality end to end. - Build structured extraction pipelines for payroll and compliance documents such as paystubs, statutory filings, and PDFs, including schema enforcement, validation, and repair loops. - Define and maintain evaluation infrastructure: golden datasets, regression suites in CI, LLM-as-judge calibration, and accuracy and hallucination rate tracked as first-class metrics. - Optimize latency and cost per task through model routing, prompt and semantic caching, batching, and context window budgeting. - Implement safety and correctness controls including PII detection and redaction, prompt injection defense, grounded citations, confidence thresholds, and escalation to human reviewers. - Instrument and monitor AI systems in production using tracing and observability tooling, and debug model behavior with the same rigor applied to application code. - Collaborate with payroll, tax, and compliance experts to translate regulatory requirements into system behavior, and with product and design to ship user-facing AI features. - Stay abreast of a fast-moving field and bring back what is actually useful, with a bias toward measurable improvement over novelty. ## Requirements - 3 plus years of professional software engineering experience, including recent production experience shipping LLM-backed features to real users. - Strong Python skills and comfort in service-oriented codebases: APIs, queues, background workers, and observability. - Hands-on experience with retrieval-augmented generation: embedding models, vector stores (pgvector, OpenSearch, Pinecone, or equivalent), hybrid search, reranking, and query rewriting. - Hands-on experience with agent architectures: tool and function calling, multi-step planning, state and memory, error recovery, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints. - Experience with structured output: JSON schema enforcement, constrained decoding, validation and repair. - Experience designing and running LLM evaluations and regression testing, not just eyeballing outputs. - Working knowledge of prompt and context engineering: versioning, few-shot selection, context budgeting, and prompt caching. - Experience with LLM observability and tracing tooling such as Langfuse, LangSmith, or OpenTelemetry. - Sound judgment on where a model belongs and where deterministic code belongs in a regulated, accuracy-critical domain. - Clear written communication and a habit of documenting technical decisions. ## Nice to Have - AWS Bedrock or comparable multi-provider production experience. - MCP server design and deployment, including tool schema design, authentication, and scoping. - Agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or Pydantic AI. - Fine-tuning or distillation of small models for narrow, high-volume tasks (LoRA/PEFT). - Vision-language models or OCR pipelines for document understanding. - Synthetic data generation for evaluation or training. - Knowledge graph or ontology-backed retrieval. - React and TypeScript (Next.js, Vite, Tailwind) for shipping your own UI when needed. - Fintech, payroll, tax, HR tech, or another regulated domain. - Open-source contributions to the AI tooling ecosystem. ## What we offer - Competitive salary package designed to reward your expertise and contributions. - Access to continuous learning and career advancement programs. - Opportunities for mentorship and coaching to help you grow in your career. - Supportive and collaborative work environment where ideas are valued and teamwork is encouraged. - Complimentary snacks and lunch provided to keep you energized throughout the shift. - Latest MacBook Pro and a high-performance monitor will be provided to boost your productivity. - We’ve partnered with select universities in the US to provide “fast track” admissions to star performers who may want to pursue their Masters in CS in the US. - High performers will be sponsored for L1 visas as well as immigrant visas (Green Card) to the US. ## About Niural ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Niural provides a unified, AI-powered global HR, payroll, compliance, and payments platform for businesses to hire, manage, and pay workforces worldwide. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Lewes, Delaware, United States (with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Bangalore) - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Global HR Tech, Payroll, Fintech, Compliance - **Target customers**: B2B, specifically mid-market and enterprise companies with global or remote workforces looking to scale internationally. - **Mission or purpose statement**: To modernize the outdated HR and payroll industry by bringing all the tools needed to hire, manage, and pay global workforces into one intelligent, cohesive platform. ## Products & Services - **Global Payroll**: Automated payroll processing for both US and international employees, handling tax calculations, filings, and remittances. - **Employer of Record (EOR)**: Hire employees in 150+ countries without setting up local entities. - **Contractor Management**: Manage and pay contractors compliantly worldwide, including localized contracts and compliance documentation. - **Payments**: Pay employees, contractors, vendors, and invoices in 100+ currencies and supported stablecoins. - **Niural Wallet**: A multi-currency wallet for funding payroll and global payments with faster settlement and better FX rates. - **HRIS**: Centralized HR platform for managing timesheets, PTO, expenses, onboarding, and HR workflows. - **US PEO**: Professional Employer Organization services for US-based hiring. - **AI-Powered Automation**: Automates HR admin tasks, invoice processing, and compliance updates. - **Integrations**: Connects with accounting and ERP systems like QuickBooks and NetSuite. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised is **$62.07M** (across multiple rounds), with a **$21M Series A** raised in mid-2026. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed on major databases, but the significant funding suggests backing from top-tier VCs. - **Growth Signals**: Raised a substantial $21M Series A in June 2026; actively hiring across multiple offices (New York, San Francisco, Bangalore); growing headcount in engineering, product, sales, and finance. ## Competitive Advantages - **Unified Platform**: Combines PEO, EOR, global payroll, contractor management, and payments—all in one system, eliminating the need for multiple vendors. - **Native AI Integration**: Uses AI to automate administrative tasks, compliance updates, and invoice processing, a differentiator in a traditionally manual industry. - **Enterprise-Grade FX**: Offers enterprise-level foreign exchange rates on international payments, a significant cost-saver for global businesses. - **Crypto-Native Payments**: Supports stablecoin payments alongside fiat, appealing to modern, tech-forward companies. - **Scalable Architecture**: Designed to grow with a company from its first hire to IPO, with no need to migrate platforms. ## Strategic Focus - **Global Expansion**: Deepening its EOR capabilities in 150+ countries to capture the growing demand for remote and global hiring. - **Product Integration**: Continuing to unify features (payroll, HRIS, payments, compliance) to be a single source of truth for global workforce management. - **AI-First Automation**: Investing heavily in AI to reduce manual work for HR and finance teams, positioning itself as a next-generation platform. - **Fintech Depth**: Expanding the Niural Wallet and payment capabilities to become a core financial operations hub for clients. ## Why Work Here - **High Growth Trajectory**: A well-funded startup (Series A, $62M+ raised) in a massive market, offering significant career growth opportunities. - **Innovative Tech Stack**: Opportunity to work on a modern platform integrating AI, global payments (including crypto), and complex compliance systems. - **Hybrid & Remote Culture**: Roles are available as hybrid, on-site, and remote (e.g., a night-shift AI Product Operator role is remote), indicating flexibility. - **Global Impact**: Work on products that directly enable companies to hire and manage talent anywhere in the world. - **Ambitious Team**: The careers page describes the team as having "massive ambitions," suggesting a fast-paced, high-expectation environment. - **Office Locations**: Presence in major tech hubs (NYC, SF, Bangalore) provides options for location preference. ## Sources 1. [niural.com](https://www.niural.com/) 2. [niural.com/careers](https://www.niural.com/careers) 3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/niural) 4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/niural) 5. 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