# Senior Desktop Software Engineer

About Orbit We're a team of engineers, neuroscientists, and designers working to deepen our understanding of the human brain. We're building a wearable brain-computer interface and models that decode emotion, with the goal of putting human experience and wellbeing at the center of technology. Our work spans neural sensors, embedded systems, scientific software, and AI. We're venture funded, with backing from founders and executives across AI, neurotechnology, consumer hardware, and pharmaceuticals, including Google, Hugging Face, Apple, Stability, Microsoft, and Dropbox. About the role Create the application that makes a sophisticated brain-sensing wearable intuitive to use. This is a greenfield opportunity to shape the desktop architecture and user experience, from connecting a wearable to recording and exploring session information. You'll help choose the technologies and establish the patterns behind a responsive, polished, cross-platform application. A C++23 acquisition service with a Qt 6 / Qt Quick interface built in QML is a leading candidate, with gRPC and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) for device communication. Our Linux-forward approach and cross-platform goals offer room to

- **Id**: 3991285
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/orbit-senior-desktop-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T20:25:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T23:29:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4564
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Machine Learning, Neurotech & Neuromodulation

## Company

- **Id**: 4403680
- **Name**: Orbit
- **Domain**: orbitneuro.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/orbit-8>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 185000
- **Max**: 215000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 215000

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Avalonia** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CMake** — Optional: no
- **Conan** — Optional: no
- **Dropbox** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **GTK** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **MVVM** — Optional: no
- **OpenGL** — Optional: no
- **Protobuf** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Qt** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **VCPKG** — Optional: no
- **WebSockets** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no
- **C** — Optional: yes
- **C#** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T23:29:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T02:24:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 215000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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