Staff AI Engineer, Orbital

• This is not a role for someone looking to transition into AI
• We're looking for an engineer who has lived and breathed AI/ML for years, who has built and scaled AI or agentic products from zero to multi-million ARR, and who has the scars and intuitions to prove it
• You've shipped systems where model behaviour, evaluation rigour, and product instincts had to come together for the business to work - and you've done it in production, with real users, real money, and real consequences
• We're looking for someone who has a clear, considered mental model of where this technology is heading, what genuinely matters, and what's noise
• You're opinionated about agent design, evals, model selection, and the right level of abstraction - because you've earned those opinions the hard way
• You have a deep AI/ML background with several years working hands-on with modern AI systems - not adjacent to them
• You have built and scaled an AI or agentic product from early stages to multi-million ARR, and can speak concretely to the technical and product decisions that got it there
• You have a track record of excellence - a clear, demonstrable bar reached in your work, research, or both. We want to see evidence you've operated at the very top of your field
• You have a well-formed thesis on where the frontier is going and what it means for product, and you bring that perspective to every decision
• You're AGI-pilled with real conviction and the technical chops to back it up in production
• You've owned production AI systems through deployment, evaluation, monitoring, and continuous improvement and know what good looks like
• You raise the bar for the engineers around you and have a track record of doing so
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, and can make sharp, opinionated technical arguments land with both engineers and non-engineers
• Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, or if the right role isn’t listed yet, we’d still love to hear from you

Desirable

• We are seeking an exceptional Senior/Staff AI Engineer to join us at a defining moment for the company and for AI itself
• You'll be a senior technical leader on Orbital Copilot - our agentic AI system reshaping how commercial real estate transactions get done, and a force-multiplier on the rest of the AI org
• At Orbital, we leverage the most intelligent, bleeding edge models from leading AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and we're building one of the most ambitious agentic systems in legal AI
• You'll own technical direction on hard problems - multi-agent orchestration, long-horizon reasoning, retrieval and document understanding at scale, and the evaluation infrastructure that lets us move fast without breaking trust
• You'll set the bar for the wider AI engineering team, mentor strong engineers, and partner closely with the VP of AI, AI product managers, real estate legal domain experts, and software engineers to take Orbital Copilot to the next order of magnitude
• Set technical direction for Orbital Copilot's agentic architecture and the AI systems underpinning our next generation of products
• Design, build, and scale complex AI features end-to-end - from research spike to production system serving high-stakes legal workflows
• Drive the hardest AI problems we face: multi-agent systems, long-context reasoning, retrieval-augmented generation, document understanding pipelines, and frontier model integration
• Build the evaluation, monitoring, and reliability infrastructure that makes shipping AI in regulated, high-trust environments possible
• Raise the bar on the AI engineering team - through code review, architecture review, mentorship, and the standards you set in your own work
• Partner with the VP of AI, AI PMs, and legal domain experts to translate a strong product worldview into systems that move customer and business metrics
• Make the calls on model choice, abstractions, and trade-offs that compound across the company's roadmap