Description
Orbital is a physics-grounded AI copilot that operates complex industrial systems such as refineries, upstream assets, and energy-intensive plants. It combines realtime time-series forecasting, physics-based models, and domain-trained language models to deliver interpretable insights, anomaly detection, and optimisation pathways directly to operations teams.
As a Forward Deployed Full Stack Engineer, your job is to make Orbital work in the real world. You will deploy, configure, customise, and operationalise Orbital’s applications inside customer environments, spanning cloud, on-premise, hybrid, and air-gapped infrastructure.
This is not a core product engineering role.
You are not building generic platform features for abstraction. You are ensuring Orbital is usable, integrated, secure, and production-ready inside complex enterprise ecosystems.
You’ll work directly with customer IT, OT, data, and engineering teams adapting interfaces, extending APIs, integrating identity systems, and troubleshooting deployments live in production.
If Product Engineering builds the platform: you make it real.
Operating Context
Forward Deployed Engineers operate in pods of three alongside:
• ML / AI Engineers
• Data Engineers
Each pod delivers 2–3 customer deployments per quarter, owning application deployment, integration, customisation, and operational reliability. You will be required to travel. Travel to the US is highly likely, hence, we are asking to confirm whether you have an active visa to travel there.
Requirements
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript (React, Node.js) and back-end frameworks (FastAPI, Express, Django).
• Solid working knowledge of Python for scripting, APIs, and data integration.
• Experience building containerised microservices (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Familiarity working with databases like PostgresSQL etc.
• Proficiency with Linux environments (deployment, debugging, performance tuning).
• Bonus: exposure to time-series/industrial data and operator-facing dashboards.
• Bonus: exposure working as a software engineer in oil and gas or energy environments
• Comfort working in forward-deployed, on-premise customer environments.
• Comfortable in customer-facing deployment roles.
• Able to operate inside enterprise and industrial environments.
• Strong troubleshooting mindset in production systems.
What Success Looks Like
• Orbital applications are fully deployed in customer environments.
• Interfaces are actively used by operators and engineers.
• Identity, security, and infra integrations work seamlessly.
• Deployments run reliably across cloud and on-prem systems.
• Customer-specific extensions are delivered rapidly when required.
• Application telemetry and monitoring are production-grade.