Staff AI Engineer

Orbital

Senior AI Engineer driving development of AI systems for commercial real estate transactions. Leading technical innovations and mentoring teams to accelerate operational efficiency and precision in the field.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive starting salary
Matched pension contributions and equity options in a fast growing start-up
Flexible working hours and location
25 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
Professional equipment and personal development budget along with training opportunities to learn and develop your skills
Free lunch on Wednesdays and Deliveroo budget for late nights
Cycle-to-work scheme

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI systemsmachine learningmulti-agent systemslong-context reasoningretrieval-augmented generationdocument understandingmodel evaluationmonitoring infrastructureproduction deploymentcontinuous improvement

Soft Skills

mentorshipcode reviewarchitecture reviewcommunication skillstechnical argumentationleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingcritical thinkingexcellence