# Software Engineer

Petual is the AI-powered control tester for the modern enterprise. Our agents test whether a company's financial, operational, and technology controls actually work, and trace every conclusion to its source. The hard part isn't speed. It's being right. External auditors re-perform our work, so precision on sample 1 has to equal precision on sample 400, and an agent that can't support a conclusion has to say so rather than guess. We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz; the team comes from Stripe, Retool, and Lyft; and public companies already run their SOX programs on Petual. The Opportunity The interesting problem is not getting an agent to test a control once. It is knowing whether it was right across hundreds of controls, for customers whose methodologies all differ, where the ground truth is a senior auditor's judgment rather than a label in a dataset. Building the harness and the evaluation that make that tractable is the core of this role, and it would be yours to own. What You'll Do Own the agent harness at the core of the product: the workflows, checkpoints, and evaluation that keep long-horizon agents reliable across hours of testing Design and own the backend services and AP

- **Id**: 1231854
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/petual-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-24T02:55:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-01
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T03:28:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 83
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2537
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Audit & Assurance Firms, AI Agents

## Company

- **Id**: 1881763
- **Name**: Petual
- **Domain**: petual.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/petual>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 146000
- **Max usd**: 316000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 9411

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 83

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T15:13:56Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 9
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.313
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 82
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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