ai engineer

Orbital develops an AI assistant built exclusively for commercial real estate law, aiming to make real estate transactions smarter, faster, and friction-free.

• 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 to define user stories, rapidly experiment, and ship new features directly to customers to use;
• Explore and implement advanced concepts such as multi-agent systems, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic architectures and next generation document understanding pipelines;
• Champion quality and reuse across the product and the codebase;
• Work across the business to ensure the features developed have a real impact on customers and move key business metrics;
• Participate in architecture and code reviews to continuously improve the quality, maintainability, security, and scalability of applications.

• Have real conviction about where AI is heading and be excited to build with frontier models in production;
• Demonstrate excellence in something, with evidence of reaching a high bar;
• Have a generalist mindset and enjoy working across boundaries to get to the best outcome;
• Have proven experience delivering large, complex software and/or AI systems;
• Value shipping early and often to get customer feedback and then iterating quickly to improve the product;
• Commercial experience shipping and maintaining production software;
• Fluent in English;
• Nice to have: Prior experience with LLMs or agentic systems, Any Frontend experience, Proven expertise in building highly secure fault-tolerant APIs, Experience building high-performance distributed systems at scale, Strong understanding of modern dev practices like 12 Factor CI/CD and observability tools such as Datadog or Prometheus, Exposure to GraphQL APIs and WebSockets for real-time interactions.

• 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 skills;
• Cycle-to-work scheme;
• Inclusive community enjoying all-company off-sites, lunches and socials.