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&DDrive customer adoption so CurieOS becomes how their scientists and engineers work day-to-dayDeliver complex customer deployments hands-on, writing production code, designing architectures, building integrations and debugging issues across CurieOS and customer systemsOwn the technical quality of deployments from prototype through production, including reliability, maintainability and operational performanceDesign and build systems that connect heterogeneous software, data and physical infrastructure, from simulation campaigns and digital twins to lab instruments, test rigs and CAD/PLM systemsDevelop reusable integration patterns that allow CurieOS to operate reliably across complex customer environmentsOwn delivery end-to-endEmbed with customer teams to understand ambiguous, high-value R&D problems, challenge assumptions and identify where CurieOS can deliver meaningful impactTranslate those problems into a technical approach, milestones and acceptance criteria, making pragmatic architecture and scope trade-offs as you learnOwn the engagement from initial technical discovery through implementation, production deployment and adoptionSet KPIs per engagement (screening throughput, design-cycle reduction, experiments avoided), measure pre/post and report outcomes to executive sponsorsBuild and lead the teamBuild and lead the Forward Deployed Engineering function, owning its technical standards, engineering practices and delivery modelHire, develop and manage exceptional Forward Deployed Engineers across diverse scientific and engineering domainsSet the technical bar through code and architecture review, and act as the escalation point for the most difficult technical decisions and production issuesStaff engagements based on technical complexity and individual strengths, while developing engineers into increasingly independent technical leadersCodify successful approaches into reusable architectures, tooling and playbooks so the team becomes more effective as it scalesWhat We’re Looking For Significant experience in enterprise software technical delivery or forward deployed engineering roles, you have led complex deployments and written production code alongside customersExperience building a forward deployed engineering or solutions function, hiring the team, setting the standards and defining the delivery modelThe ability to move fluidly between strategy conversations with R&D leadership and debugging sessions with engineersA track record of succeeding in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where

Requirements

evolve through direct iteration with usersStrong software engineering fundamentals, you still build, and your technical judgement is respected by the engineers you leadA genuine interest in building software that enables breakthrough scientific and industrial applicationsOrbital is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.Find Jobs in United Kingdom on Arbeitnow