# Senior IoT 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 Enable a connected wearable that people can trust with their brain data and rely on every day. You'll help make our wearable secure, seamlessly connected to the cloud through its desktop gateway, and easy to manage and update throughout its life. This Internet of Things (IoT) role brings embedded Linux, edge gateways, and cloud-connected device services together into one coherent experience. Our device communication uses gRPC and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) over IP, with TLS protecting communication. Your work will help people access new capabilities through reliable over-the-air (OTA) updates and gi

- **Id**: 3991283
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/orbit-senior-iot-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**: 2026-11-09T20:33:18Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T23:29:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Description chars**: 4803
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- **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

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- **Dropbox** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **MQTT** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **PKI** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Protobuf** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Wi-Fi** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no

## 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**: 2026-11-10T02:24:06Z

## Pay

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

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