Hiring 2 collaborators — Remote, worldwide

Not hiring.
Technically.

We're three people who ship real AI systems. No HR. No five-round interviews. No "we'll circle back." But if you're genuinely extraordinary — keep reading.

Make your case → See open roles
AML
const team = 3;
const output = "∞";
✓ shipped to prod
✓ no meetings about meetings
model: claude-sonnet
vibe: immaculate
AI Engineers Full-Stack Developers Vibe Coders Welcome Voice AI Specialists Remote · Async No Jira Required Kathmandu → Worldwide Contract → Retainer AI Engineers Full-Stack Developers Vibe Coders Welcome Voice AI Specialists Remote · Async No Jira Required Kathmandu → Worldwide Contract → Retainer
05 — Careers

Small team. Real work.

Most careers pages at 3-person studios are fiction — "competitive salary," "dynamic team," "unlimited PTO" that somehow always means no PTO. Ours isn't that page. Here's what's actually true about working with AML.

Everything ships

Every project goes into production. Not a proof-of-concept on a slide deck — actual systems clients use to run their business.

// shipped more in 6 months than some teams do in 3 years

Three people. Zero middlemen.

No account managers. No VP of Synergy. You work directly with the founders. Either exciting or terrifying — depending on who you are.

// "flat structure" is a feature, not a bug

AI is how we work

We are vibe coders. We use AI for engineering, writing, strategy. We don't gatekeep traditional CS backgrounds — we hire people who ship.

// IDE: Cursor. pair programmer: Claude.

Kathmandu → World

Based in Nepal, serving clients in the US, EU, and APAC. Time zones are a puzzle, not a dealbreaker. Good work ignores longitude.

// GMT+5:45 is the most underrated timezone

06 — Open collaborations

What we're actually looking for.

We don't call them "jobs." We call them collaborations — because you'll be working with us, not for a faceless org. Project-based to start. Retainer if it clicks. No résumé required — we want to see what you've shipped.

01
AI Engineer at work — neural net cluster & live training dashboards
AI Engineer Open now
Contract · Remote · Project-based

You build agents that actually do things. Not demos — production-grade AI systems with eval suites, error handling, and real users who depend on them daily.

Claude API LangChain Python RAG Vector DBs n8n
Apply via email →
02
Full-Stack Developer — HTML, CSS, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP stack
Full-Stack Developer Open now
Contract · Remote · Project-based

You know the difference between "it works" and "it's fast and it works." React, Supabase, Vercel. You've shipped to production and have the git history to prove it.

React Next.js Supabase TypeScript Tailwind Vercel
Apply via email →
03
Voice AI Specialist — speech, translation, and conversational interface visualization
Voice AI Specialist Coming Q3
Future · Remote · TBD

You've built with Vapi, ElevenLabs, or Deepgram. You know why latency matters and you've shipped a voice agent that didn't make someone want to hang up immediately.

Vapi ElevenLabs Deepgram Twilio WebRTC
Opening Q3 — ping us early
04
Growth & Content Lead — performance dashboards, SEO, and content strategy
Growth & Content Lead Coming soon
Future · Remote · TBD

You write things people actually read. You can explain what an AI agent does to someone who thought "AI" was just smart autocorrect. SEO without becoming a robot about it.

Content strategy SEO Technical writing Social
Watch this space
05
Computer Vision Engineer — YOLO object detection, ResNet, and feature maps
Computer Vision Engineer Coming Q4
Future · Remote · TBD

YOLO isn't just a philosophy — it's a framework. You've trained models that detect real things in real images, not just bounding boxes around someone's shadow.

PyTorch YOLO Roboflow OpenCV Replicate
Opening Q4 2026
??
Wildcard role — something we haven't thought of yet
Something we haven't thought of yet Wildcard
Depends · Let's find out

Rare skill. Clear thinking. Specific reason why working with AML makes sense for both parties. We're genuinely curious. The bar is high — but the door is open.

Surprise us Be specific Ship things
Make your case →
07 — What we believe

The unofficial AML manifesto.

Things we actually believe — not values that live on a wall nobody reads. These shape every project, every hire, and every decision.

01
Shipping beats planning
A working prototype with rough edges beats a perfect roadmap every single time. Perfection is a delay strategy with better branding.
02
AI is infrastructure, not magic
"Just add AI" is not a strategy — it's a prayer. We use it as a tool, carefully, precisely, and honestly.
03
Small teams outperform large ones
Three people with clarity beat thirty with meetings. We grow slowly and on purpose — not because a deck told us to scale.
04
Geography is a timezone, not a ceiling
Being in Kathmandu doesn't limit what we build or who we serve. The best clients care about output — not which flag you're under.
05
Curiosity is the only required degree
No CS background needed. We need people who learn fast, break things on purpose, and figure it out when they hit a wall.
06
Boring problems pay the bills
We love hard problems but most great work is just doing the unglamorous things really well. Both ship.
08 — The obvious questions

Things you're probably wondering.

Project rates are competitive with international freelance markets — not Nepali in-house rates, not Silicon Valley senior salaries. Somewhere honest in between. We always discuss numbers early so nobody wastes time.
Real projects. Client-facing systems that go into production with actual users. The only "internal" work is on our own products — which also ship publicly and have real users.
No. We work with people wherever they are. Async-first means you deliver on time — not that you sit in standups. Nepal is home base, not a requirement.
One email. Tell us who you are, what you've built, and why AML specifically. No five-round interviews. No take-home assignments disguised as free work. If there's a fit, we reply within 48 hours and have one direct conversation. That's it.
Maybe. We start with a project because that's the fastest way to know if working together is actually good. If it is — we'll talk about what comes next. We don't make promises upfront we can't keep.
Yes. And we expect collaborators to as well. Using AI to work faster and better is not cheating — it's the job description. If that makes you uncomfortable, we're probably not the right fit. The tools change. The output quality doesn't.

Don't see your role? Write anyway.

The best collaborators we've worked with didn't wait for a job listing. They sent one email that made us think: "we need to talk to this person." Be that person.

info@astralmantralabs.com → Book a 20-min call

We read every email. We reply to the good ones. Usually the same day.