Orbital - Engineering Manager

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership or management role. • Proven experience shipping and iterating on user-facing products, with a strong sense of what makes software useful, reliable and delightful • The ability to move fluently between hands-on engineering and people management • Strong product instincts and the ability to partner closely with product, design and stakeholders to shape roadmaps, make scope trade-offs and deliver meaningful outcomes • Solid engineering fundamentals with the ability to set high standards for code quality, system architecture and engineering practices across a team • Experience building and growing high-performing engineering teams — hiring, developing talent, giving clear feedback, and creating an environment where people do the best work of their careers • Can balance technical depth with strategic thinking. • A genuine interest in building software that enables breakthrough scientific and industrial applications, and the ability to translate that ambition into concrete plans a team can rally behind • Bonus: Previous experience working in an AI/ML environment - you don't need to be an ML engineer, but familiarity with the workflows, tooling and pace of AI teams is a real advantage • Upon reading Hamming's You and Your Research, you resonate with quotes such as: • "Yes, I would like to do first-class work" • "You should do your job in such a fashion that others can build on top of it, so they will indeed say, 'Yes, I've stood on so and so's shoulders and I saw further.'" • "Instead of attacking isolated problems, I made the resolution that I would never again solve an isolated problem except as characteristic of a class"