# Senior Software Engineer - Generalist

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 Build the features that bring the whole product together. You'll take meaningful ideas through design and implementation, working across application, device, and cloud boundaries to create a coherent experience. This role combines depth in part of the stack with curiosity about the rest. You'll have a clear area of ownership for each project, collaborate with specialists, and work with modern C++, Python, and agentic development tools. There's room to shape both product capabilities and the tools that help a small team build them well. You will Deliver complete features spanning components, such as r

- **Id**: 3991282
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/orbit-senior-software-engineer-generalist>
- **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**: 2026-11-09T20:35:08Z
- **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**: 4623
- **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

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CMake** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Dropbox** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **MQTT** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **NumPy** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Protobuf** — Optional: no
- **Pytest** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Qt** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **SciPy** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **WebSockets** — Optional: no
- **ZeroMQ** — Optional: no
- **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**: 2026-11-10T02:24:43Z

## Pay

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

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