Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Platform

The role

The platform team builds the foundation for the CurieOS AI operating system. You will build and run reliable systems in production that support workflows, agents, and products.

What you will do

• Build the foundation that every workflow, agent and product on CurieOS depends on
• Work on tenancy, isolation and identity including data isolation, SSO and access control
• Manage release and production including release gates, staged rollouts, rollback, automated smoke tests, on-call and incident response
• Measure agent quality in production and work with researchers to bring evals into the platform
• Manage observability and cost including SLOs, tracing, alerting, cost telemetry and usage metering
• Handle infrastructure and deployment across cloud accounts, GPU capacity and customer-dedicated deployments
• Set technical direction across areas for Staff level roles
• Own systems end to end and run design reviews

Required qualifications

• Designed and built backend services that other teams or customers relied on
• Owned a system in production after it shipped including cloud infrastructure, on-call, incidents, changes and monitoring
• Built and run something where LLMs do real work for real users, dealing with cost, latency and quality trade-offs
• Used coding agents heavily in your own work
• Led a project end to end and made trade-offs
• Run real systems in the cloud

Nice to have

• Shipped software to external enterprise customers: SSO, tenant isolation, per-customer deployments, security reviews
• Run infrastructure as code at scale, or GPU workloads across more than one cloud provider
• Helped a system or a company through a scaling phase
• Worked closely with researchers, scientists, engineers or other domain experts
• For Staff: a track record of setting technical direction beyond your own team

About the company

Orbital Industries is an AI Industrial company with frontier AI embedded in the production of critical physical products. They use CurieOS, an AI operating system, to unite AI-automated hardware engineering with AI-designed material science.