Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years building LLM-backed or agentic systems in production
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript, with substantial production code in at least one
- Deep practical experience with retrieval-augmented generation — embeddings, vector search, chunking strategy, ranking, and the failure modes of each
- Demonstrated experience building and debugging multi-step, tool-using agents, whether on a framework or from primitives
- Proven rigor about evaluation, including harnesses that measured whether an AI change actually improved anything
- Willingness to travel up to 15%
Physical Requirements
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Participation in virtual and in-person meetings
- Ability to attend planned meetings and/or work in classified spaces for extended periods within the specified work regions
- Travel: Up to 15% for customer engagement, integration support, and team collaboration.
Orbis Benefits
Beyond the opportunity to work alongside practitioners who have operated at the mission edge, joining Orbis means real ownership over outcomes that matter; the chance to build technology that gives the United States Government and its allies a genuine decision advantage, not just another dashboard. From competitive retirement matching to a PTO policy that encourages real time off, we're committed to creating an environment where our team can do their best work and still have a life outside of it.
Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. A full list of benefits is shared with candidates following an initial conversation with our HR team, so you'll have a clear picture of the support and resources available to you as part of the Orbis team.
Orbis Locations
Orbis works in whatever arrangement the mission requires. Depending on the role, that might mean five days a week on a customer site, full-time in one of our offices, a hybrid schedule, or fully remote work; our team is spread across 25 states and four countries to match. We make sure every team member has the tools and access needed to do the work, wherever that work happens.
Travel is common across many Orbis roles, particularly those supporting customer missions in the field.
Orbis is headquartered in McLean, VA, with additional office locations in Taipei, Taiwan, and Canberra, Australia.