Engineering Manager — AI Platform Delivery & Team Growth

Orbis; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement matching

Paid time off

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Orbis is seeking a Senior Engineering Leader to steer the Orbis AI portfolio—Agent Catalog, OSINT Agent Harness, and Pulse Analytics. You will grow and guide a team of software and research engineers, set cadence, and ensure accuracy, explainability, and reliability for mission users.

Travel up to 20% for customer engagement, integration, and team collaboration; you will drive end-to-end delivery, architecture across cloud, on-premises, and edge, and uphold product principles and high standards

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years directly managing engineers.
• Track record of delivering meaningful product surfaces on committed timelines.
• Technical depth in distributed systems, backend services, or AI and data platforms.

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.
• 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 product principles — accuracy and trustworthiness, security and data sovereignty, rapid iteration, deploy anywhere, explainability, and performance.
• Establish engineering standards: design and code review, testing, observability, on-call, and incident follow-through.
• Guide architecture for cloud, on-premises, and edge environments from a single codebase.
• Clear cross-team blockers with product teams that consume Orbis AI capabilities.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Backend services

AI platforms

Hiring & mentoring

Communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Orbis is seeking a Senior Engineering Leader to steer the Orbis AI portfolio—Agent Catalog, OSINT Agent Harness, and Pulse Analytics. You will grow and guide a team of software and research engineers, set cadence, and ensure accuracy, explainability, and reliability for mission users.

Travel up to 20% for customer engagement, integration, and team collaboration; you will drive end-to-end delivery, architecture across cloud, on-premises, and edge, and uphold product principles and high standards