Senior Software Generalist: Brain-Computer Interface

Orbit Neuro Co.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbit Neuro Co. is building a wearable brain-computer interface and related software to decode emotion, working across neural sensors, embedded systems, scientific software, and AI.

The role focuses on delivering complete features that unify the product across application, device, and cloud boundaries, with ownership of project areas and collaboration with specialists. Prototyping and agentic tooling help shape product capability and developer experience.

Qualifications

• At least five years of professional software experience.
• Experience shipping substantial software with depth in at least one area (systems, desktop apps, backend, or data infrastructure).
• Experience designing APIs and reasoning about data/state across distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complete features spanning components such as recording configuration and session metadata.
• Collaborate with embedded, desktop, and cloud engineers to design interfaces and workflows.
• Build shared libraries, simulators, replay tools, and development utilities.
• Solve system-wide design challenges in state, data flow, performance, and reliability.
• Turn ideas into tractable implementation steps using prototypes and feedback.
• Improve development and release workflows, contributing to product functionality.

Skills

C++

Python

APIs design

Distributed systems

Testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Tools

Docker

CMake

GitHub Actions

Job description

Orbit Neuro Co. is building a wearable brain-computer interface and related software to decode emotion, working across neural sensors, embedded systems, scientific software, and AI.

The role focuses on delivering complete features that unify the product across application, device, and cloud boundaries, with ownership of project areas and collaboration with specialists. Prototyping and agentic tooling help shape product capability and developer experience.