Forward Deployed Engineering Lead

Orbital Industries is an AI Industrial company, with frontier AI embedded at every step in the production of critical physical products - from creating advanced materials to engineering and manufacturing.

Every Orbital Industries product is developed using CurieOS, our AI operating system, uniting AI-automated hardware engineering with AI-designed material science to achieve breakthrough real-world performance. We also offer CurieOS to our customers and partners, extending the same platform and workflows that power Orbital Industries to their own teams and products.

We have an ambitious mission and need excellent people in all our teams - AI research, operations, advanced materials, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and manufacturing.

Working at Orbital Industries means working in vertically integrated teams across the full stack, from molecules to manufacturing. We're looking for people who have a love of physical technology, curiosity in AI and a desire to learn.

Role Overview

Orbital's AI software platform, CurieOS, is used by scientists and engineers to design and build products serving critical industries. Powering this software are our world leading AI models in advanced materials, hardware engineering and simulation.

As Forward Deployed Engineering Lead at Orbital you will build and lead the Forward Deployed Engineering function, owning its technical standards, delivery model and team. You are an engineering leader who builds alongside customers, not a delivery leader who manages engineers. You will deliver complex deployments hands-on while hiring and developing the team that scales this capability across Orbital's growing customer base.

First and foremost, we want to work with someone with a love of craftsmanship, continual learning and building systems that scale.

Key Responsibilities

Deliver deployments hands-on, across the breadth of industrial R&D

• Drive customer adoption so CurieOS becomes how their scientists and engineers work day-to-day

• Deliver complex customer deployments hands-on, writing production code, designing architectures, building integrations and debugging issues across CurieOS and customer systems

• Own the technical quality of deployments from prototype through production, including reliability, maintainability and operational performance

• Design and build systems that connect heterogeneous software, data and physical infrastructure, from simulation campai