Lead Engineer
Orbital
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Integrate frontier models into real production use cases to solve multimodal reasoning problems.
- Work in small teams of two to four people to direct AI agents and build agentic systems.
- Own meaningful features end-to-end - from initial architecture through to production delivery.
- Move new ideas from concept to customer-facing code within a matter of days.
- Apply visual AI to century-old legal documents, maps, and surveys that require deep reasoning.
- Continuously improve our engineering practices by using AI tools and modern techniques.
Requirements
- A deep conviction that AI will reshape industries and a desire to build at that frontier.
- Evidence of reaching a high level of excellence in a professional, academic, or personal domain.
- A generalist mindset with the willingness to work across product, design, and AI boundaries.
- Experience building modern agentic systems or reasoning through complex ML products.
- A track record of working on products generating £millions in ARR with high growth.
- Rapid career progression - such as moving from junior to senior level in under five years.
- The ability to critique AI-generated output with high standards and technical taste.
Benefits
- Very competitive salary range plus equity options in a Series B startup.
- Hybrid working (1-2 days per week in our Farringdon office).
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and a personal development budget.
- Free lunch on Wednesdays and a Deliveroo budget for late nights in the office.
- A cycle-to-work scheme and flexible working hours.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI integrationmultimodal reasoningagentic systemsarchitecture designproduction deliveryvisual AImachine learningengineering practicescomplex ML products
Soft Skills
team collaborationgeneralist mindsethigh standardstechnical tastecritique abilityrapid career progressionexcellence in domain