Forward Deployed Engineer, AI

ORBIS Corporation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbis in London is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer, AI to join our team and build practical AI-driven solutions on the Orbis AI Platform, blending deep engineering craft with product judgement and business understanding.

You will collaborate with investment research, operations and client reporting colleagues, shaping problems from first conversation through deployment and adoption, delivering reliable applications.

Qualifications

• Asset management knowledge or experience in investment research, operations or client reporting.
• Strong software engineering foundations and experience building user-facing applications, APIs and integrations.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development and connecting models to data and systems.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize problems with investment research and operations teams; define expected outcomes.
• Build applications, agents and automations on the Orbis AI Platform.
• Apply governance, data access, security, testing, reliability and maintainability standards.

Skills

Asset management knowledge

Software engineering

AI-assisted development

Problem-solving

Business curiosity

Ownership

Tools

APIs

Data integrations

Orbis AI Platform

Job description

AI at Orbis

At Orbis, we use AI to expand what our people can achieve: deeper investment insight, better informed decisions and more time for work that demands our judgement. We combine advances in AI with our own data, knowledge and investment expertise to develop capabilities that strengthen how we invest, serve clients and operate.

The Orbis AI Platform already connects models with our systems, data and firm knowledge, supporting AI use across the firm. We are extending this foundation to agents that carry out increasingly complex tasks and workflows, with clear human accountability. This is an opportunity to build on that progress: translating business understanding and engineering expertise into capabilities that extend what an investment firm can do.

The role

To help deliver this ambition, we are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer, AI to join our team in London. This role is for a hands-on engineer who combines technical depth, product judgement and business understanding to build solutions on the Orbis AI Platform and help shape how AI is applied across the firm.

You will work directly alongside investment research, operations and client reporting colleagues, getting to know their work, questioning assumptions and identifying where technology can make a meaningful difference. You will have scope to shape the problem and the approach, taking solutions from the first conversation through to deployment and adoption. That could mean helping analysts investigate companies, making firm knowledge easier to apply, automating operational processing or strengthening client reporting.

Working in a small team, you will combine product judgement with engineering craft: shaping how a solution should work with our colleagues, then building, testing and improving it in practice. You will draw on the Orbis AI Platform’s connections to models, data and firm knowledge, partnering with platform and development colleagues to deliver reliable applications and agents. You will see how your work performs in daily use, and what you learn will help shape the platform’s next capabilities.

Why Orbis

• Culture. We are committed to our Core Values. We encourage intellectual curiosity and individualism as well as collaboration across different areas of the business. We seek to hear our people’s voices – whether quiet or loud. Sharing ideas and challenging the status quo are commonplace.
• Autonomy. While guidance and support are provided, team members own their work and projects.
• Growth opportunities. We support our people in continuous learning and development.
• Agile environment. We are committed to providing a work environment that balances the needs of our clients; the needs of our teams; and the personal needs, commitments, and interests of our people.
• Philanthropy. Our people can contribute to society in a unique and personal way, through various philanthropy opportunities and programmes.

What you will do

• Work with investment research, operations and client reporting teams to prioritise problems, define how solutions should behave and agree measurable outcomes.
• Build applications, agents and automations on the Orbis AI Platform, using shared data connections, tools and capabilities to develop integrations and workflows.
• Apply Orbis engineering and governance standards, addressing data access, security, testing, reliability, cost and maintainability.
• Evaluate outputs against real business examples, test changes to models, prompts and data, and establish where human review is needed.
• Return after deployment to assess adoption and outcomes, improve solutions and build colleagues’ confidence and independence.
• Partner with platform and development teams to agree delivery and support ownership, share reusable approaches and feed business needs into the platform roadmap.

About you

• Asset management knowledge and experience are strongly preferred, particularly in investment research, operations or client reporting. We also welcome engineers with a strong record of learning another complex domain.
• Strong software engineering foundations and experience building applications that people use, including APIs and system integrations.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development and connecting models to data and systems, with an understanding of their limitations.
• Strong problem-solving skills and product judgement: you get to the root of a problem, challenge assumptions and distinguish business needs from requested features to choose a proportionate solution.
• Business curiosity and clear communication across teams and locations: you learn unfamiliar domains, listen carefully, explain technical choices and make space for different perspectives.
• Ownership and initiative: you make considered decisions in ambiguous situations, seek specialist input, learn through experimentation and follow work through.

The company

We are a global firm with offices across eight countries, over 400 employees and more than $40 billion in assets under management. But those numbers don’t define Orbis. It’s our values, how we do things day-by-day, and how we add value for our clients that define us. Our investment philosophy is fundamental, long-term and contrarian. As contrarian investors, we aim to take a different perspective, and this filters into everything we do. To invest differently, you need to think differently. This is encouraged by having teams of people with different backgrounds, experiences and ways of thinking.

Find out more about us at www.orbis.com.