AI Platform Engineering Manager

Orbis; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive retirement matching

PTO with real time off

Job summary

Orbis, a technology company delivering sovereign intelligence, seeks a Lead Engineer to guide the engineering team behind the Orbis AI portfolio, including the Agent Catalog, OSINT Agent Harness, and Pulse Analytics. You will grow a team of software and research engineers, define delivery cadence, and ensure accuracy, explainability, and reliability for mission-critical users.

You will drive architecture across cloud, on-premises, and edge deployments, manage priorities, and align with product

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years directly managing engineers.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
• Track record of delivering meaningful product surfaces on committed timelines
• Technical depth in distributed systems, backend services, or AI and data platforms sufficient to lead design review credibly
• Demonstrated ability to grow engineers, including leveling, performance conversations, and hiring against a bar
• Clear written and verbal communication with both engineering and non-engineering audiences
• Willingness to travel up to 20%

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of software and research engineers, owning hiring, onboarding, performance, and career development.
• Own the team's delivery commitments end to end — scope, sequence, and land work each cycle, surfacing status and risk early rather than at the deadline.
• Drive the research-to-product path: set direction with product management, define what a result must demonstrate to become a roadmap commitment, and stop work that is not paying off.
• Enforce the Orbis AI product principles — accuracy and trustworthiness, security and data sovereignty, rapid iteration, deploy anywhere, explainability, and performance — in design review rather than after release.
• Establish engineering standards that hold under pressure: design and code review, testing, observability, on-call, and incident follow-through.
• Guide architecture for systems that must run in cloud, on-premises, and edge environments from a single codebase.
• Clear cross-team blockers — dependencies, interface contracts, and competing priorities — with the product teams that consume Orbis AI capabilities.
• Travel up to 20% for customer engagement, integration support, and team collaboration.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

AI data platforms

Hiring and mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

Orbis, a technology company delivering sovereign intelligence, seeks a Lead Engineer to guide the engineering team behind the Orbis AI portfolio, including the Agent Catalog, OSINT Agent Harness, and Pulse Analytics. You will grow a team of software and research engineers, define delivery cadence, and ensure accuracy, explainability, and reliability for mission-critical users.

You will drive architecture across cloud, on-premises, and edge deployments, manage priorities, and align with product