Senior AI Engineer, Orbital

• You have a background in software engineering, ML engineering, or data science and have transitioned into AI Engineering
• You are excited about the potential of LLMs, AI agents, and agentic architectures
• You have demonstrated experience using LLMs and can showcase projects or initiatives that highlight your keen interest in the domain
• You have experience with backend Python development
• You value shipping early and often to get customer feedback and then iterating quickly to improve the product
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• You have proven experience delivering large, complex software engineering systems
• We are open to candidates from diverse backgrounds—whether in software engineering, ML engineering, or data science—who have transitioned into AI Engineering. While commercial experience in a company is a preference, it is not mandatory
• What matters most is your demonstrated interest in the domain and hands-on experience using LLMs to solve technically complex problems

Desirable

• We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join our team as we build and scale innovative AI-driven products that bring much-needed transparency to the home-buying process and transform the way property is transacted
• Our successful existing product helps real estate professionals extract key information and create reports from legal documents. We’re now evolving this product and developing new offerings to add even more value to our users
• At Orbital Witness, we leverage the latest advancements in large language models (LLMs), including OpenAI’s GPT-4o, o1, and Claude models from Anthropic
• This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about LLMs, AI agents, and agentic architecture, and who wants to work at the forefront of AI technology in production use cases
• You’ll own the end-to-end design and development of AI-driven features and systems, working alongside a dynamic and fast-paced team focused on quality, usability, and impact
• You will play a critical role in every stage of the development lifecycle, from discovery and design to implementation, deployment, and continuous improvement. Supported by a cross-functional team, you will deliver impactful solutions initially to lawyers and then to a broader B2B customer base
• Take ownership of key AI technology decisions and lay the groundwork for the company’s ambitious growth plans
• Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven systems and features, integrating state-of-the-art LLMs
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team (AI Engineers, AI product managers, VP of AI, legal domain experts and software engineers) to define user stories, rapidly experiment, and ship new features
• Explore and implement advanced concepts such as multi-agent systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic architectures
• Champion quality and reuse across the product and the codebase
• Work across the business to ensure the features you develop have a real impact on customers and move key business metrics as we design and build a brand-new product that doesn’t yet exist in the market
• Participate in architecture and code reviews to continuously improve the quality, maintainability, security, and scalability of our applications
• 🔒 As part of our commitment to information security, all employees are expected to adhere to company security policies and procedures, participate in mandatory security awareness training, and ensure the secure handling of sensitive data in line with ISO 27001 standards. Reporting potential risks or incidents is a key part of fostering our culture of security and compliance