Careers at Petual
Build the future of audit with us
At Petual (as in, perpetual), we're on a mission to automate how enterprises, firms and auditors manage risk, compliance, and controls. Our AI agents turn fatiguing, manual SOX testing workflows into instant, audit-ready results. We believe the future of audit is about precision, speed, and trust at scale.
Join us. We're building AI that supercharges auditors and helps shifts their time from the toilsome to the business critical.
Why Petual?
SOX testing is due for a change.
SOX, ITGC, and compliance programs today cost enterprises thousands of hours and millions of dollars each year. Evidence is scattered, testing is slow, and results are retrospective. The discipline has not meaningfully evolved in the last 20 years, when SOX was first introduced. We're at an inflection point that can change the field.
Petual is different.
We use large language models and intelligent automation to deliver testing and insights in minutes, not months. That means better coverage, higher precision, and a clear path to freeing up auditors' time from manual testing to focus on higher leverage work.
Join us and help reinvent an industry that's primed for change with AI agents that now excel at handling messy swaths of data — and work with a team that thrives on tackling hard, regulated problems with cutting-edge technology.
How we work
In-person, async-friendly
Our team is based in San Francisco and we value balancing collaboration and deep focus time.
Audit, product & engineering led
We obsess over design, clarity, and user trust. Every teammate has a say in shaping what we build.
Fast but responsible
We move quickly, in service of our customers, but never at the expense of security, accuracy, or our customers' confidence.
Audit as a first-class domain
We immerse ourselves in the language of controls, policies, and evidence so our AI doesn't just feel magical — it feels auditor-friendly.
Who thrives here
- • Builders who love tackling ambiguous and unsolved problems.
- • Engineers who care about security, precision, and traceability as much as scale.
- • Designers and PMs who know the magic isn't just in the model, but in how humans experience it.
- • Auditors and risk professionals who want to shape the future of audit by combining professional judgment with AI-powered precision and scale.
- • AEs and BDRs who can translate a complex, regulated space into clear value and thrive building trusted relationships in new markets.
- • Deployed and solutions engineers who thrive at the customer edge, proving how AI can automate the hardest audit testing workflows.
- • Anyone motivated by the idea of automating a space dominated by manual processes and huge amounts of unstructured data.
Our values
Precision over volume
We'd rather do one thing right than ten things halfway.
Transparency
Just like our AI agents, we show our work.
Empowerment
Customers and teammates should feel more capable, not more burdened.
Long-term thinking
We're building for the next decade of audit, not just the next quarter.
Open roles
We'd love to hear from you. Reach out at contact@petual.ai and tell us how you'd like to contribute.
Join us. We're building AI that auditors can trust — not only because it's magical, but because it's also precise, explainable, and aligned with the standards that matter.