Hybrid Lead Engineer

at Orbital

• Job title: Lead Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Lead Engineer at Orbital Copilot integrating AI models for smarter real estate transactions. Collaborating on innovative solutions to accelerate legal work and reduce costs for clients.

Responsibilities

• 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.