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Help build nutrition software that works in the real world.

Emeal sits at the intersection of metabolic science, local food systems, and applied AI. We are building tools that need to be medically sensible, operationally practical, and simple enough for real households to trust.

What the work feels like

Small team. Hard constraints. Real product surface.

AI with guardrails

Build systems that can reason within nutritional, budget, and seasonal boundaries instead of producing generic meal plans.

Local context matters

Work on a product that treats local ingredient availability and price as first-class inputs, not footnotes.

Quality over demo polish

The bar is simple: if users follow the output, it has to be coherent, useful, and safe enough to earn trust.

Health impact, not vanity metrics

You would be building software that changes what people actually cook, buy, and eat every week.

High ownership from day one

The team is small. The scope is not. People here own product decisions, implementation, and the quality bar.

Evidence has to survive contact with reality

Nutrition science, local availability, budget constraints, and AI behavior all meet in the same product surface.

India-first problem set

We are building for one of the most complex food and health ecosystems first, then expanding outward.

Role Areas

Where we expect to keep investing

The exact openings will evolve, but these are the workstreams that matter most to the product and company.

Engineering

Full-Stack Product Engineer

Priority
Remote / India-friendly

Own end-to-end product flows across onboarding, family planning, meal generation, analysis, and growth surfaces.

Next.js + TypeScript
Supabase data flows
AI product UX
Performance and polish

Applied AI

AI Systems Engineer

Priority
Remote / India-friendly

Improve prompt pipelines, evaluation loops, constraint enforcement, and nutritional reasoning quality across plan generation.

LLM prompting
Evaluation design
Reliability tooling
Structured output quality

Nutrition

Nutrition Research and Data Ops

Priority
Remote / India-friendly

Turn nutrition evidence into guardrails, ingredient coverage, validation checklists, and data the product can trust.

Food composition data
Condition-specific guardrails
Research synthesis
QA workflows

How We Work

The environment

Emeal is not a place to hide inside a narrow function. The work crosses product, AI behavior, nutrition logic, and implementation detail. People who do well here like ambiguity, but they also know how to reduce it.

You ship across the stack when the problem requires it.
You explain reasoning clearly enough that other strong people can challenge it.
You care about polish, but not at the expense of correctness.
You are comfortable working on India-first constraints before global scale abstractions.

Hiring Principles

1

Understand the user constraint set

We care about candidates who can reason about health conditions, affordability, ingredient availability, and product usability together.

2

Bias toward shipping

Ideas matter less than the ability to turn a fuzzy constraint into a product decision and then into working code or systems.

3

Raise the technical bar

We value people who make reasoning explicit, challenge weak assumptions, and leave the system cleaner than they found it.

Start with the product

The best candidates usually understand the problem before the interview.

If this mission fits you, spend time with the product and the science first. That context matters more than polished jargon.